81 items | 10 visits
Links I'm collecting that might inform our SMT committee and our school's goals for STEM.
Updated on Nov 21, 13
Created on Aug 02, 10
Category: Schools & Education
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"CodeHS has everything you need to teach CS in your high school or start learning at home."
"I designed this tutorial course to accompany the Arduino starter pack sold at the Adafruit webshop. The pack contains all the components you need (minus any tools) for the lessons"
"The Silhouette CAMEO® is an electronic cutting tool for personal use. Like a home printer, it plugs into your PC or Mac® with a simple USB cable. However, instead of printing it uses a small blade to cut paper, cardstock, vinyl, fabric and more up to 12" wide and 10 feet long."
"The focus: to recruit, prepare, retain, and support 100,000 excellent STEM teachers over the coming 10 years in order to prepare all students with the high-quality STEM knowledge and skills needed to address the most pressing national and global challenges of tomorrow."
Universeum's mission is to positively affect children and young people's attitudes to science, technology and mathematics by experiences that create curiosity, increased understanding, confidence in the future and desire to move on to studies and careers in these fields.
"Make games with GameSalad Creator
Create games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and HTML5. No coding required. Did we mention it's free?"
"The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. "
"To catalyze and support excellence in teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and other core subjects through innovative, research-based instructional strategies and use of novel technologies. "
"Whatever you think of playing computer games, making computer games is a creative effort on par with composing music or writing novels. All creative efforts require a substantial degree of intuition, logic, problem solving, and fun. "
"devoted entirely to the growing community of resourceful people who believe that if you can imagine it, you can make it. "
"National Robotics Week kicks off Saturday, April 9th and ends the following Sunday, April 17th. " 2011
the news about current ideas
"as shared by 22 people on Darren Kuropatwa’s Twitter list"
"technical details about the reactors at Fukushima, and the most likely scenario for what is happening there"
"In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. "
Provides resources for PBL
Examples from a variety of schools + Seymour Papert.
Common Craft Style
skip intro of bored students
reference: bie.org
Steps for group PBL listed on chalkboard - skip into about bored kids
81 items | 10 visits
Links I'm collecting that might inform our SMT committee and our school's goals for STEM.
Updated on Nov 21, 13
Created on Aug 02, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: