Posted on October 23rd, 2010 by ASEE
The technology-rich interactives on the STEM Collaborative.org Website “offer a fresh, new way to engage students in active learning.” Each learning adventure is aligned to national standards and includes educator support materials, interactive activities and lesson plans.
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Posted on October 11th, 2010 by ASEE
The Peace Corps Coverdell WorldWise Schools Website offers lessons, information about cross-cultural publications, videos, stories, folk tales, and a program to help arrange classroom visits by Peace Corps Volunteers. The program is designed to broaden perspectives in culture and geography and to encourage service. It also helps students come to better value the rich heritage and broad representation of peoples within their own communities.
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Posted on October 4th, 2010 by ASEE
Science at the Smithsonian highlights scientific research being conducted at the Smithsonian Institution, allowing the public to gain a sense of the critical role of science in the daily life of the Institution. The site offers weekly updated news, features, photos. and videos. Check out the “Science Spotlight,” book review page, archived material, and links to science-related websites at the Smithsonian.
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Posted on September 27th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
Engineering company Northrop Grumman provides a number of professional development and class resources for teachers, including the Weightless Flights of Discovery Program, which allows teachers to experience microgravity; the EarthWatch Educator Program where teachers participate in an expedition focused on climate change or oceans preservation; the Galileo Teacher Training Program, which involves workshops using telescopic investigations; and more.
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Posted on September 27th, 2010 by ASEE
The NASA Quest Website offers a range of online resources for teachers, students, parents, and others, so that the public can share the excitement of NASA’s authentic scientific and engineering pursuits, like flying in the Shuttle and the International Space Station, exploring distant planets with spacecraft, and building the aircraft of the future.
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Posted on September 13th, 2010 by ASEE
The KidsH2 Website sells inexpensivekits and offers supporting material for students, teachers, and parents seeking to know more about fuel cell technology and its applications. Materials include kits focused on hydrogen, hydropower, and wind energy, accompanying lesson plans, workshops, and an online community.
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Posted on September 8th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
The Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) at Tufts University partners Tufts University students with K-12 teachers in the greater Boston, Mass. area to create an engineering curriculum that reaches across all disciplines, peaks the students’ interests in engineering, and improves the students’ problem-solving skills. Teacher resources such as class activities, full units, a list of websites, and grant information are also available.
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Posted on September 6th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
TryEngineering.org’s Ask an Engineer website offers an archive of academic and career-oriented questions for engineers and their answers. Users can browse the most frequently asked questions, look through the full archives, or isolate the questions and answers by topic.
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Posted on September 6th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
The Dept. of Education Math and Science Partnerships (MSP) program gives out grants that support partnerships between the mathematics, science, and/or engineering faculty of institutions of higher education and high-need K-12 school districts. The program’s goal is to increase student achievement through increasing teachers’ content knowledge and pedagogical skills. As a resource, the MSP program maintains a comprehensive archive of websites and programs created around the grants, search-able by location.
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