Little video on why plants are green!

http://www.sciencealert.com/index.php?option=com_jusertube&view=video&rid=545rqaOJQD8&yuser=PLI-6-wtgFSgC-nbpwvkTbTICySA2shfkV&auto=1&eh=385&ew=600&st=yes&height=500&width=600

Those of you interested, the Royal Society have lots of events and many of the seminars are recorded.  You can see them on the website below!

http://royalsociety.org/events/?type=all&year=&month=&direction=past&video=True&audio=False&page=1

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/