ComPADRE Partnership Details

Adopt-a-Physicist

Adopt-a-Physicist is a joint project of the APS and AAPT, hosted by ComPADRE. Middle- and High-school teachers can search profiles of practicing physicists and adopt them for their class. Classes communicate with the scientists for three weeks to discover more about how real science is done and what physicists are really like.

MERLOT

MERLOT is a well-established, peer reviewed digital catalog of multimedia learning objects. MERLOT is multi-disciplinary, with resources in chemistry, biology, math, and engineering, to name just a few.

MERLOT is a federated search partner of ComPADRE.

Physlets/Open Source Physics

Physlets/OSP are the results of a number of NSF sponsored efforts to provide flexible and extensible multimedia simulations for physics education. The Physlets/OSP database is a federated search partner of ComPADRE. In addition, ComPADRE is hosting OSP materials in its repository.

SERC Pedagogic Service

The Pedagogic Service provides tools to connect developed, research proven teaching methods with examples of how the methods are being used in classes and the learning content in digital libraries and repositories. Precise explanations of the pedogic methods developed and hosted by SERC, the "Why", and user-submitted and editor reviewed descriptions of usage, the "How", can be used to develop context for the learning objects, the "What".

ComPADRE is working with SERC to provide examples for some of the pedagogic methods most commonly used in physics and astronomy classes. The examples will be linked to the content objects in the ComPADRE catalog to help users of those resources. In addition, the pedagogy descriptions will be linked in ComPADRE to help users understand these effective approaches to learning. Having discipline-specific examples will make these descriptions more useful for the ComPADRE audience.

Smithsonian/Nasa Astrophysics Data Service

The ADS provides in-depth indexing of journal articles and similar resources. The ADS education service is a federated search partner of ComPADRE. ComPADRE is also hosting a new and simplified interface to the ADS education resources.