Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by ASEE
The InvenTeam initiative, created by the Lemelson-MIT Program, offers an opportunity for high school students to cultivate their creativity and experience invention. InvenTeams are teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors that receive grants up to $10,000 each to invent technological solutions to real-world problems. Each InvenTeam chooses its own problem to solve. http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/about.html
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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by ASEE
The New Science Teachers’ Support Network (NSTSN) is an award winning program that is a partnership designed to create support for provisionally licensed middle school and high school science teachers and to perform research on the effect of various support factors on the success and retention of these teachers. Partners in the project are Prince William […]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by ASEE
Women in Engineering Pro-Active Network (WEPAN) offers a variety of class activities for all grade levels that span a number of engineering disciplines.
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Tags: Class Activities, Women in Engineering
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by ASEE
Go! is a free, online magazine for teens and young adults that explores the world of transportation and the careers they can find there. It is published by Iowa State University’s Center for Transportation Research and Education.
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Tags: Automotive engineering, Books & Magazines, Transportation
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by ASEE
Sponsored by the Girl Scouts, this website encourages girls to explore science, math and technology, offering games, a useful guide to using the Internet, and information on careers.
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Tags: Programs for Girls, Women in Engineering
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by ASEE
This site contains downloadable activities referred to in the poster presentation “The Teacher as Designer: Innovative Practices Informed by Personal History, Theoretical Grounding, and Professional Learning”, by Christopher Young, from the 2009 Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Conference in Washington DC.
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Tags: Chemistry, Earth Science, Web Resources
Posted on January 21st, 2009 by ASEE
The National Science Teachers Association has a variety of resources for elementary, middle and high school teachers.
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Posted on January 21st, 2009 by ASEE
The Schott Foundation for Public Education seeks to build a movement behind the goal of “fully resourced, quality preK-12 public education.”
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Posted on January 21st, 2009 by ASEE
Disappearing milk, a floating dollar? The Engineering Magic Website, sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, helps you put a little magic into the lesson, with videos and slide shows that explain the science behind magic tricks.
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Tags: Class Activities, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Grades K-5, Magic
