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Listed below, in date order (most recent first) are collections that participate in NSDL by sharing information about their individual resources.

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Collections in bold are NSDL Partners or their contributing collections.

ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education Paradata Jan 2012
http://www.compadre.org/portal/Collections.cfm
ComPADRE is a set of communities of teachers and students in physics and astronomy and web-based collections of resources to support their needs. The communities supported by ComPADRE are groups that can benefit from the sharing o...Full description and distribution of resources

TeachSpatial Annotations Jan 2012
http://teachspatial.org/standards-browser
The TeachSpatial collection assembles digital teaching resources relevant to spatial cognition, spatial learning, and spatial literacy across multiple STEM disciplines for middle school, high school, and undergraduate learners. Co...Full description and distribution of resources

Minds-On Activities for Teaching Biology Jan 2012
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/bioactivities
These minds-on activities include discussion activities, web-based activities, experiments and simulation activities to foster student understanding of important concepts in the life sciences. Topics covered include biological mol...Full description and distribution of resources

TeachSpatial Jan 2012
http://teachspatial.org/
The TeachSpatial collection assembles digital teaching resources relevant to spatial cognition, spatial learning, and spatial literacy across multiple STEM disciplines for middle school, high school, and undergraduate learners. Co...Full description and distribution of resources

CTE Online Paradata (Usage Data) Oct 2011
http://www.cteonline.org/
CTE Online provides contextualized usage data captured as teachers interact with resources on the CTE Online website.Full description and distribution of resources

iCPALMS: A Standards-based K-12 Resources and Tools Pathway Aug 2011
http://www.floridastandards.org/resources/ResourceSearch.aspx
iCPALMS is a K-12 math and science collection of freely available instructional and educational resources that have been recommended or authored by Florida's educators and vetted by teachers and subject matter experts. All the res...Full description and distribution of resources

PhET Interactive Simulations Aug 2011
http://phet.colorado.edu/
PhET has fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from biology, math, physics, earth science and chemistry. PhET simulations animate what is invisible to the eye through the use of graphics and intuitive ...Full description and distribution of resources

Web Adventures: Explore Science One Game at a Time Jul 2011
http://webadventures.rice.edu/
Web Adventures offers a series of problem-based learning adventure games that engages the player in various science related roles, with two primary educational goals: 1) Increase students' science knowledge through interactive gam...Full description and distribution of resources

Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle Jun 2011
http://beyondweather.ehe.osu.edu/
Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle is an online professional development magazine which focuses on preparing elementary teachers to teach climate science concepts while also integrating inquiry-based science and literacy instructi...Full description and distribution of resources

NSDL Bilingual Collection Jun 2011
http://nsdl.org/search/?n=10&s=0&verb=Search&include_collection[]=ncs-NSDL-COLLECTION-000-003-112-044
The NSDL Bilingual Collection makes K-12 math and science resources available to teachers of students who are not proficient in English. The NSDL Bilingual collection provides quick and easy access to high-quality resources that a...Full description and distribution of resources

Case Study Collection: National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science May 2011
http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/
The Case Study Collection makes science relevant by presenting contemporary science problems about issues that students encounter in the news. The case studies in the collection are created by science and engineering faculty and f...Full description and distribution of resources

Math Forum Collection May 2011
http://mathforum.org/
The Math Forum features a K-12 math expert service (Ask Dr. Math), a database of math sites and math tools, online resources for teaching and learning math, a discussion forum, and information on professional development events an...Full description and distribution of resources

Black Box Software Testing May 2011
http://www.testingeducation.org/BBST/
The Black Box Software Testing Collection provides instructional materials (lectures, slides and videos) to teach black box software testing. Black box testing is the craft of testing a program from the external view. Materials in...Full description and distribution of resources

Changing Planet Mar 2011
http://nbclearn.com/climate
NBC Learn, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, explores the impact of climate change on Earth. Each video uses interviews, maps, simulations and real-world film footage to illustrate how climate change influences ...Full description and distribution of resources

Science of NFL Football Mar 2011
http://nbclearn.com/nfl
NBC Learn, in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the National Football League, unravels the science behind professional football. Featuring footage from games and practice sessions, and contributions from footbal...Full description and distribution of resources

Choosing and Using DLESE Mar 2011
http://www.dlese.org/library/query.do?q=&s=0&ky=00v&ky=06&ky=01e&ky=01f&ky=01j&ky=01l
Choosing and Using DLESE highlights resources from DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) that have some pedagogical content knowledge associated with them. This knowledge may include formal and informal reviews, annot...Full description and distribution of resources