It’s not an apple to welcome teachers back to school, but a cup of coffee.  In recognition of teachers, Starbucks is offering school teachers, grades K-12 a complimentary tall cup of brewed coffee on Mondays during the month of September.  Bring in your teacher identification to any Starbucks.  We appreciate the many ideas you’ve shared on MSI to recognize the wonderful work of teachers.

Thanks for the tip, Derek!

• The George Lucas Educational Foundation offers a free subscription to Edutopia, which seeks to discover new teaching methods and to make use of technology in education.
• Want streaming music for free? Try The Music Genome Project at www.pandora.com. You can login and enter a style of music or your favorite band, and the site will find similar music.
• Subscirbe for free to Harper’s Magazine Weekly Review email newsletter, written by Paul Ford. “It’s a sentence-by-sentence snapshot of the awe-inspiring, humbling, infuriating, and funny events that happened in the preceding seven-day period” (from Boing Boing)
• The National Center for Biotechnology (ncbi.nih.gov) offers online science texts for free.
• NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) has a Science Teachers’ Grab Bag, where you can find free/inexpensive teaching resources including lesson plans, interactive websites, videos, activities and much more!
• The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biointeractive website offers free materials for educators including their holiday lecture series videos/DVS, and even some interactive software!
• The National Institute of General Medical Sciences offers free copies of its publications, ranging from chemistry to biotechnology and all of the medical advances in between.
• Wisconline (The Wisconsin Online Resource Center) offers multimedia (videos, flash animations, etc) on a variety of subjects to registered users – not just science!