Big Deal Book

VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources for digital learning and professional development plus grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Celebrate Women in Science, Connect Shakespeare to Hip-Hop & More.

Here are a few of our favorites from this edition...be sure to check the full Big Deal Book for more great resources!

Global Network of Coding Clubs

CoderDojo is a loosely connected global network of free volunteer-led,community-based programming clubs for young people. The volunteers are usually a mix of technical mentors and nontechnical volunteers.

Posters Celebrating Women in Science

A science-trained designer, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, has created a series of posters celebrating women in science to connect the Women’s March to the March for Science.

Educational Hip-Hop Videos

Flocabulary, the interactive learning platform that uses educational hip-hop to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum, has launched its first mobile app.

Big Deal Book, May 1, 2017

Not everything in the Book is time sensitive so be sure to check out the archives.

 

VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources for digital learning and professional development plus grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Program a Robot, Converse with Scientists, Thank a Teacher & More.

Here are a few of our favorites from this edition...be sure to check the full Big Deal Book for more great resources!

Weekly Poetry Radio Series

During April, National Poetry Month, students can embark on a journey into the world of daily poetry by tuning into PoetryNow, a weekly radio series that features some of today’s most accomplished and innovative poets.

Meaningful Making Projects

Illustrated with color photos of real student work, Meaningful Making: Projects and Inspirations for FabLabs and Makerspaces contains project ideas, articles, and best practices from educators at the forefront of making and hands-on education.

American History Through Stories of Diversity

Teachers, students, and the general public can dive into the diversity of American history at OneHistory.org, where they can listen to the voices of America, past and present.

Big Deal Book, April 17, 2017

VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources for digital learning and professional development plus grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Combine Learning with Playing, Collaborate Across Cultures & More.

Here are a few of our favorites from this edition...be sure to check the full Big Deal Book for more great resources!

Mobile Poetry Library

With The Poetry Foundation’s POETRY mobile app for iOS and Android, students can take hundreds of poems by classic and contemporary poets with them wherever they go.

Activities in Celebration of Reading

“Drop Everything and Read” (D.E.A.R.) is a national month-long celebration designed to remind people of all ages to make reading a priority activity in their lives.

Weekly STEM Podcasts

Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

Big Deal Book, April 3, 2017

Not everything in the Book is time sensitive so be sure to check out the archives.

VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources for digital learning and professional development plus grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Start Tinkering, Enhance Visual Literacy, Connect with Nature & More.

Here are a few of our favorites from this edition...be sure to check the full Big Deal Book for more great resources!

STEAM Design Competition

The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum’s National High School Design Competition: Good For All is open to all youth aged 13–19 who are high school students in grades 9–12 anywhere in the United States.

Virtual Journey Through Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

With Shakespeare’s Globe 360, students can step inside the famous Globe Theatre in England and discover how it was constructed, see what it would have looked like years ago, and learn about theater life in that time.

Digitized Recordings of FDR’s Speeches

The Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum allows teachers to bring President Franklin D. Roosevelt right into their classrooms with digitized recordings of his most important speeches.

Big Deal Book, March 15, 2017

Not everything in the Book is time sensitive so be sure to check out the archives.

VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources for digital learning and professional development plus grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Promote Inclusiveness, Integrate Design Thinking, Shape Recess & More.

Here are a few of our favorites from this edition...be sure to check the full Big Deal Book for more great resources!

Design Education in All Disciplines

The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum offers several resources on how to integrate design-thinking connections into the K–12 classroom.

Contest on the Relevance of Thoreau’s Ideas

Each year the Live Deliberately Essay Contest, sponsored by the Walden Woods Foundation, invites youth aged 14–21 from around the world to respond to a selected quotation from Henry David Thoreau,reflecting on how his words and ideas are still alive and relevant in their lives and in the world.

Digital Archive of Historical Documents

The Nat Turner Project’s digital archive lets students read original documents related to the only large-scale slave revolt ever to occur in the United States.

Big Deal Book, March 1, 2017

Not everything in the Book is time sensitive so be sure to check out the archives.