Using Blogs in the Classroom - Seeing Science in the Real World

This blog is one that I chose, not because it is necessarily made for the classroom, but because I could use it in the classroom. ScienceBlogs is a one stop shop for looking for blogs related to science (which I happen to teach) and I think it could be a really cool way to show kids how science is being used in the real world, by real scientists. These scientists are writing not only for experts in their own fields, which means that their material is much easier for my students to understand without it being watered down very much either. There are lots of new ideas being talked about in this blog and I like the flurry of activity that is happening hhere because it shows just how dynamic and changing the field of science really is. I think that using this blog in my classroom could be an awesome way for me to get kids thinking about science in the news and also see the creative side of science. National Geographic is a partner on this blog as well, so I trust the science included on it, even though some of it is pretty edgy for high school level students.