Jokes You Can Use:

A skeleton once wanted to go to a party but then he realised he had NO-BODY to go with.

On Our Mind:

AMLE Attendance

Flipped Classrooms

Eileen Award:

Vlad Gutkovich of Flowcabulary

Use AMLE11 to get a free month of Flowcabulary for your classroom!

Jack Berckemeyer

Advisory:

Google Fun

http://geekbeat.tv/6-awesome-google-tricks-and-games/

(Correction: Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th . . . )

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

This middle school science minute is about nature artists. It is based on an article written by Ashley Campbell, entitled, "Avenues to Inspiration: Integrating the Life and Work of Nature Artists into Middle School Science." The article can be found in the October, 2011 edition of Science Scope, which is published by the National Science Teachers Association.

The following nature artists are cited in this podcast:

Marie Sibylla Merian

John James Audubon

Wilson A. Bentley

Andy Goldsworthy

From the Twitterverse:

The former usually is just using tech to do the same as we've always done. #grumpytour

Don’t forget to join the conversation on MiddleTalk and Twitter at #midleved this Friday at 8:00 pm EST.

News:

This American Life

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/449/middle-school

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/449/transcript

Common Core Webinars

http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/webinars/common-core-webinars.aspx

Resources:

BrainHoney

BrainHoney is learning infrastructure hosted in the cloud. Use complete solutions today, like the BrainHoney LMS, or build cloud solutions using BrainHoney components.

http://brainhoney.com/

Simple Science’s Video

http://vimeo.com/user697789/videos

MathChimp

Welcome to Math Chimp! We collect free online math games and organize them by the common core standards. We're glad you've come to play cool math games here... they're free and always will be!

http://www.mathchimp.com/

Pictures that bring the War home

Draw a StickMan

Fun, time waster. You draw, the story unfolds.

http://www.drawastickman.com/

Web Spotlight:

Strategies:

How to Creatively Integrate Science and Math

AMLE 2011:

Thursday Sessions

NMSA/AMLE Affiliate Meeting Thursday 7:30 am.

Session Title: Advocating for AMLE

Article passed out at registration: Mark of Leadership: If Not You, Then Who? by Tom Burton (p. 44 AMLE) (I get to sit next to Ross Burkhardt!)

Events & Happenings:

Calendar of Events: