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VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you carefully curated resources designed for K-12 educators. Grants, competitions, web-based and mobile resources and more. We select our favorites from each newsletter but be sure to scroll down and click to the whole newsletter. And, since not all the Big Deal Book resources are time sensitive, we provide an archive for you to browse.

This newsletter will help you Get Coding and Moving, Create Autism Awareness, Make 3D Models & More.

Photography Contest Inspired by Earth

The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is sponsoring a photography contest to celebrate Earth Science Week, October 14–20, 2018. The photography theme for this year is “Inspired by Earth.

Tools and Training That Address Diversity and Bias

The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) mission is to end discrimination and fight for equity for all people. As part of this mission, ADL offers resources for teachers to address wide-ranging issues that touch on the topics of diversity and bias, such as bigotry, net neutrality, DACA and immigration, and conversations about race in a mostly white classroom

Guidance for Beginning or Continuing a Makerspace Journey

Makerspace for Education offers educators a hands-on, creative, user-friendly, “anytime, anyplace” professional development resource that they can tap into as part of a community of practice.

Big Deal Book, September 17, 2018

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VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you carefully curated resources designed for K-12 educators. Grants, competitions, web-based and mobile resources and more. We select our favorites from each newsletter but be sure to scroll down and view the whole newsletter. And, since not all the Big Deal Book resources are time sensitive, we provide an archive for you to browse.

This newsletter will help you Prepare for Constitution Day, Integrate Coding and Making & More.

Grants for Tools to Implement Innovative STEM Projects

The application period for Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant program is now open. The program will award classroom grants of $2,000 to $5,000 to as many as 1,000 schools and parent–teacher organizations.

Inquiry-based Learning Experiences Focusing on Sustainability

Smithsonian Science for Global Goals is a new, freely available curriculum that uses the United Nations’ Global Goals for Sustainable Development as a framework to focus on sustainable actions to local problems, defined and implemented by students

Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Heritage and Identity

A project of the Brooklyn Historical Society, Voices of Mixed Heritage: Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations is a free interdisciplinary curriculum designed for grades 6–12. Students and educators are invited to engage with the topic of mixed heritage and identity in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present

Big Deal Book, September 5, 2018

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VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you carefully curated resources designed for K-12 educators. Grants, competitions, web-based and mobile resources and more. We select our favorites from each newsletter but be sure to scroll down and view the whole newsletter. And, since not all the Big Deal Book resources are time sensitive, we provide an archive for you to browse.

This newsletter will help you Encourage Kindness, Learn from Space, Join a Global Network & More.

Paper Airplane Challenge

POWERUP’s first powered paper airplane challenge gives students a hands-on flight experience as they use their creativity while learning about physics and aerodynamics.

Minigames Developing Global and Cultural Awareness

The League of Extraordinary Bloggers, also known as LXB, is a team of teen bloggers from China, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam who are traveling through Asia to track down a mysterious criminal mastermind known as The FOX.

Positive Social Space for Young Girls

Maverick is a free social network that connects young girls with female mentors to express their creativity in a safe space. The social media platform is designed to help preteen and teenage girls engage with both the online content and one another.

Big Deal Book, August 15, 2018

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It's a new year of Big Deal Book: contests, grants, apps, and resources curated with K-12 educators in mind. We highlight some of our favorites from each newsletter. The theme of the August 1, 2018, newsletter is Code with Music, Step into History, Develop Creative Expression & More.

American Revolution As a World War Told Through Primary Sources

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, invites Americans to recognize another world war—one that has traditionally been envisioned as a confrontation between a ragtag army of rebellious colonists and a king’s mighty military force of red-coated Brits.

Virtual Tour of the World-Famous Secret Annex

The Anne Frank House museum has partnered with Force Field VR to recreate the Secret Annex where Anne Frank and her family lived in hiding from July 6, 1942, until their arrest on the morning of August 4, 1944.

Online Courses on Teaching and Learning with Technology

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has announced ISTE U, an ongoing option for professional development around teaching and learning with technology.

Big Deal Book, August 1, 2018

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VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the "best of the best" of web-based resources, classroom competitions and teacher grant programs. The June 15, 2018, newsletter offers resources that Take Science into Summer, Hear Stories of Latinas in STEM & More.

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Videos Exploring the Science Behind Summer Activities

Throughout the summer months, students can explore the science behind some of their favorite summer activities. On PBS LearningMedia’s Science of Summerwebsite, students will discover the physics of sailing, the chemistry of campfires, the mineral composition of sand, the forces that allow humans to ride bicycles and rollercoasters—and more.

Books About the Immigrant Experience

June is Immigrant Heritage Month, and Brightly, an online resource to help educators grow lifelong readers, features 15 books for children about the Immigrant Experience in America. One of the books suggested for children in prekindergarten/kindergarten is The Name Jar, a familiar immigrant tale of having an unfamiliar name and feeling like an outsider—until someone kind or brave or both makes a gesture of inclusion.

Initiative Encouraging Young Latinas to Pursue Careers in Technology

TECHNOLOchicas is an initiative of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and Televisa Foundation designed to raise awareness among young Latinas and their families about opportunities and careers in technology.

Big Deal Book, June 15, 2018

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