Teaching ScienceIdeas and help for trainee Science teachers

Microbiologists grow the Google logo using bacteria coloured with special dyes.

Plenty of scope for working in some good science questioning with your biology class.

Google is looking for the brightest, best young scientists from around the world to submit interesting, creative projects that are relevant to the world today.

To help make today’s young scientists the rock stars of tomorrow, in partnership with CERN, The LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American, Google is introducing the first global online science competition: the Google Science Fair. It’s open to students around the world who are between the ages of 13-18. All you need is access to a computer, the Internet and a web browser.

Find out more on the Google Blog here, or check out the Google Science Fair website. You have until 4th April to enter. Even if you don’t enter, there are some useful resources in the teachers area for teaching investigations.

Tom Barrett has set up an excellent presentation in Google Docs giving ideas for using interactive whiteboards in the classroom. What’s really fun is that is uses the collaborative nature of Google Docs so that the finished product has been worked on by many different teachers. (read more)

And I say finished product tentatively, because its still being added to. 34 tips so far and counting.