This is one of the coolest uses of roots I've ever seen!!

Fascination of Plants Day was initiated in 2012 by European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO). It will run again in 2013. Some interesting resources from 2012: 
http://www.plantday12.eu/home.htm
http://www.plantday12.eu/australia.htm


 http://www.slideshare.net/plato347bc/peb-fascinating-plants?ref=http://www.plantday12.eu/australia-success-story-2012.htm

Other slide shows on the website are also on plant science! 


Enjoy the awesomeness that is plants! 

edutopia

Some entertaining images: http://pinterest.com/edutopia/lol/

In the full website there are interesting articles about all kinds of things from edible school yards to teaching students about the internet.  http://pinterest.com/edutopia/

for example:

http://www.andertoons.com/education/cartoon/6384/anyone-tell-me-how-semicolon-is-used-other-than-emoticons/

language assistance

One of my (good?) friends suggested this page may help some people understand what I'm saying!
http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html

Interesting links

Science Alert
http://www.facebook.com/ScienceAlert

Talking Technology
http://www.facebook.com/talkingtechnology


European education website Scintix
http://www.scientix.eu/web/guest;jsessionid=4835B0986B070D071AF5B942966D4B35


Jefferson Lab education resources
http://education.jlab.org/

Australian Academy of Science
http://science.org.au/scied/

Australian Space Research Institute
http://www.asri.org.au/

Australia Telescope national facility outreach page
http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/

educational songs

Photosynthesis Rap

waterplants song
http://www.youtube.com/user/parrmr?feature=results_main







Glucose song

Useful Link:

http://www.biology-resources.com/biology-experiments2.html

Towards the bottom of this page (Under Photosynthesis) experiment 1 involves measuring photosynthesis in water plants (elodea is the one they use here but other water plants also work).  This works really well...we used it for high school students on the Siemens Science Challenge at UQ a few years ago! It is very clear the effect of light intensity on oxygen production.  

There are lots of other cool experiments on this page too! If you try some feel free to comment here on what works and what doesn't! 

Overview

Here you will find cool experiments and science links that may be helpful or interesting!  Feel free to add comments on any you try (do they work well? do they need adjusting? what works best? what was interesting?). Also feel free to add any links or tools that you also know about for others to try!