Big Deal Book

VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources for digital learning and professional development plues grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Connect Math to Music, Unravel Science Mysteries, Redesign Art & More.

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

Math Ideas with Liberal Arts Connections

Developed at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, Discovering the Art of Mathematics: Mathematical Inquiry in the Liberal Arts is publicly available through a collection of free books and workshops.

Immersive Virtual Reality Experiences

Developed by The New York Times, the NYT VR app for iOS and Android puts users at the center of stories in an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience.

Program Spotlighting Frederick Douglass’s Legacy

Frederick Douglass spent his life fighting for justice and equality. Born into slavery in 1818, he escaped as a young man and became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement.

Big Deal Book, February 15, 2017

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VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources for digital learning and professional development plues grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Simulate a Robot, Take a Brain Break, Perform Acts of Kindness & 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 Awareness Activities

#GlobalSpeedChat is a worldwide collaboration platform on which students respond to activity prompts, such as “If the world had a flag of its own, what would it look like?”

Robot Simulator

RobotBASIC is a multifeatured, general purpose, versatile programming language with an integrated robot simulator.

Media Production Lessons

Produced by WNYC Studios since 2014, Radio Rookies has been developing a series of free lesson plans for educators who are interested in using audio production as a teaching tool.

Big Deal Book, February 1, 2017

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VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources for digital learning and professional development plues grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Personalize Learning, Move into Making, Sing About Science & More.

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

Creative Computing Network

ScratchEd is a network of educators who are using the student-friendly programming language Scratch in their classrooms, often in unexpectedly creative ways.

Digital Pre-algebra Game

A product of the Learning Games to Go Project spearheaded by Maryland Public Television, Lure of the Labyrinth is a digital game for middle school pre-algebra students.

Magazine for Makers

As a leading voice of the maker movement, Make: publishes tested projects, skill-building tutorials, in-depth reviews, and inspirational stories, accessible by all ages and skill ranges.

Big Deal Book, January 16, 2017

VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources, grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Tackle Real-World Math, Get a Global View, Explore the Unknown & More.

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

Lesson on the Influence of Fake News

C-SPAN Classroom has a new lesson plan that is timely given the recent discussions about fake news stories created and shared through social media. Media Literacy & Fake News is a free lesson plan based on five C-SPAN videos featuring authors and other experts talking about the role of media in influencing how people think about political topics.

Family Coding Event

Pioneered by the California nonprofit MV GATE, Family Code Night is a whole-school family event that ignites coding and computer science learning at any elementary school and in any family. The program engages K–5 children and their parents or guardians in the experience of doing their first hour of computer programming together in an early evening special school program.

Lessons on the Ideas of Democracy

Facing History and Ourselves has produced a series of free videos and accompanying lessons that introduce a rigorous study of the Reconstruction era into American history classrooms. The video series presents interviews with scholars who offer insight into this complex history and address questions of freedom, justice, equality, and citizenship that are at the heart of the Reconstruction era.

Big Deal Book, January 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, grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Encourage Kindness, Evaluate Tech Integration, Create 3D Models & More.

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

Engineering Essay Contest

The National Academy of Engineering invites all students (girls and boys) in grades 3–12 to submit an essay to the 2017 EngineerGirl Essay Contest entitled “Engineering and Animals.”

Tool for Evaluating Ed Tech Integration

District- and school-level administrators can test a new tool developed by the US Department of Education (ED) to help measure the success of educational technology in schools. The Ed Tech Rapid Cycle Evaluation Coach tool will guide school leaders and teachers through the steps they should take before buying education technology.

Virtual Journey into the Human Heart

The Virtual Heart app invites students to explore multiple views of the human heart in real time: an external view and three internal views that realistically depict the heart’s valves, blood flow, and electrical system.

Big Deal Book, December 1, 2016