Web watch

To suggest topics or sites for Web Watch, please visit http://www.physicstoday.org/suggestwebwatch.html . Compiled and edited by Charles Day

http://www.teachforamerica.org

Since 1990, Teach for America has recruited recent college graduates to teach for two years in schools in poor parts of the US. The schools’ need for math and science teachers is especially strong, but in 2008 only 13% of TFA teachers had majored in math and science. The organization’s website explains how you or your students can apply to join the program. In addition to the satisfaction of raising education standards, TFA teachers receive salary, certification, and a modest credit that can be used for graduate school or paying off student loans.

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/scope.html

Scope It Out! is an online game designed to teach children about one of NASA’s most ambitious scientific missions: the James Webb Space Telescope. Set for launch in 2013, the JWST will look in the IR for the youngest galaxies in the universe. Scope It Out! explains, among other things, the similarities between the JWST’s foldout, segmented telescope and the more familiar tube telescope devised 400 years ago by Galileo.

http://www.aip.org/history/historymatters/donatephotos.html

The Emilio Segrè Visual Archives at the Niels Bohr Library welcomes donations of photographs and electronic images to add to its collection. Pictures of scientists at work or at play, with colleagues or with family, are especially appreciated. The archives’ donations page explains the submission procedure.