Instructional Activities
Classroom/Instructional Resources
This article appears to be quite helpful:Ingredients for a great STEM Project
These opportunities have come to our attention through our work on the Summits and with STEM in general. We provide them to you with the recommendation that you check them out for appropriateness for your instructional setting before committing to them.
This brings back the beginning when we started BEST:Do Laptops Help Learning? The Maine Project
As a context setting piece, please read Six Characteristics of a Great STEM Lesson
And also Six Recommendations for Learning in the Digital Age
This might also be helpful: 16 Open Ed Resources Sites
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These two articles provide many opportunities:Teaching STEM Skills with NAO Robots — THE Journal. I have seen the NAO up close and personal and I think he is a good teacher (smile).
And Students Explore the Earth and Beyond with Virtual Field Trips — THE Journal.
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In doing some research for a colleague about middle school STEM, I found the following resources:
How To Engineer A Great STEM Curriculum For Middle School
www.middleweb.com/…/engineer-great-middle–school–stem-curriculum/
Innovative STEM Middle Schools – Bob Pearlman
www.bobpearlman.org/stem/stem_middle_schools.htm (I have known Bob for years and his work is worth looking at)
www.ascd.org/ascd_express/vol6/624_cieslik.aspx (I just returned from Atlanta where I attended the ASCD conference)
The website of the Department of Elementary & Secondary Education now has a STEM sector. www.doe.mass.edu/stem/
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This fascinating graphic might require a magnifying glass:
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Check out the Aspire Institute at Wheelock College: http://stem-app.wheelock.edu/
“The STEM Activity App delivers engaging activities to families, teachers, and elementary school students” about STEM.
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This article from Ed Week suggests some possibilities which might be useful:Small Particles Yield Big Gains re STEM
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The Triangle Coalition meeting in DC in October 2014 brought this invitation for the chemists in our midst:
The main website of the You Be The Chemist programs is www.chemed.org.
You Be The Chemist Challenge—an academic competition for grade 5-8 students (https://www.chemed.org/ybtc/challenge/)
You Be The Chemist Activity Guides—free lesson plans featuring hands-on activities for K-8 (https://www.chemed.org/ybtc/guides/)
You Be The Chemist Essential Elements—free professional development workshops for K-8 educators (https://www.chemed.org/ybtc/essential/)
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- http://spark.irobot.com/ IRobot Corp. site helps teachers use robots as an educational tool.
- http://www.thefutureschannel.com/ movies and activities which deliverhands on real world math and science lessons
- http://stem.definedlearning.com/ tries to capture students’ engagement and skills from the earliest grades in science, math and technology to help foster interest for their later school years and careers.
- Intel Teach to the Future
- Microsoft lesson (plans for students and educators)
- National Center for Technological Literacy, Museum of Science, Boston (Engineering programs)
- America’s Choice (Math Interventions)
- Gizmos (Math and Science)
- Discovery Learning
- Project Tomorrow (Preparing today’s students to be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and engaged citizens)
- Secondary School Science Laboratories (pdf) (A set of resources for decision-makers)
- Sloan Career Cornerstone Center (Exploring Paths in Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Computing and Medicine)
- ThinkFinity
This article came from a good friend: Moving Towards Next Generation Learning – Vander Ark