Tinker with Technology, Track Climate Change, Think Visually & More

Managing Deployments of Mobile Technology

LocknCharge carts and baskets make mobile device deployment in the classroom faster and easier. The carts feature a top-loading design, allowing for multiple access points and preventing wires from getting caught in the door. Check out what customers are saying about LocknCharge.

September 15, 2017

NASA Science Climate

Mobile Learning

Citizen-Science Climate Change Tracking

With the iSeeChange Tracker by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, students can use their iOS mobile devices to help NASA scientists investigate how climate change affects their communities.

Professional Growth

Programs for Expanding Skills in Instructional Design

The educational technology programs delivered through Penn State World Campus can help you successfully incorporate use of the internet and technology into your professional setting. If you work in an educational institution, you can expand your skills in instructional design and learn to evaluate the impact of technology on learning. Choose from graduate certificates in E-Learning Design, Educational Technology Integration, or Teaching and Learning in a K–12 Setting, any of which you can roll into a full Master of Education in Learning, Design, and Technology if you apply and are accepted into the program. Penn State’s College of Education has consistently ranked in the top 10, according to U.S. News and World Report, and the same faculty who teach in residence also teach online. Visit the website to request information.

Target Field Trip Grants corporate.target.com

Funding & Recognition

Grants for Field Trips Connected to Classroom Curricula

Target Field Trip Grants are awarded to K–12 public, private, and charter schools nationwide to fund field trips that connect students’ classroom curricula to out-of-school experiences.

Statistics Math nytimes.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Graphic Visualizations for Developing Statistical Thinking

The New York Times Learning Network is partnering with the American Statistical Association (ASA) for a new monthly feature, “What’s Going On in This Graph?”

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Digitize Your Independent Reading Program

Reduce teacher workload and start your school year with MoxieReader, an app that transforms the way teachers and students manage independent reading. MoxieReader features book scanning and tracking, leveled book recommendations, digital reading logs, and peer interaction to support the growth of your reading community. MoxieReader looks at each student as an individual and builds a personalized reading progress plan based on that student’s level and interests in order to both motivate and develop a love of reading. For the month of September, celebrate the MoxieReader launch with a $19.99 per year special, down from $63. Use code launch1999$special during checkout. Kickstart your school’s reading goals today.

Social Platform

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Virtual Afterschool Program to Build STEM Skills

WidgetWatch is an online afterschool program created by Fidgits 2 Widgets that leverages students’ interest in technology to keep them learning. With a STEM-based curriculum, WidgetWatch teaches students to tinker, design, and create using emerging digital technologies.

Girls and Technology Entrepreneurship

Funding & Recognition

Challenge to Girls to Become Tech Entrepreneurs

Technovation offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the skills they need in order to emerge as tech entrepreneurs and leaders. Technovation invites girls to identify a problem in their community and then challenges them to solve it.

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

STEM Program Reaching New Heights

AOPA’s High School Aviation STEM Symposium, presented by American Airlines on November 6 and 7, 2017, is one of the most unique high school STEM gatherings of its kind. Focusing on aviation and aerospace, the symposium brings educators from across the nation to share insights, ideas, and best practices on incorporating aviation STEM programs into secondary education. This is your chance to get to know leaders in the field. AOPA speakers come with a wealth of experience in multiple areas, including education and the aviation industry. They’ll share lessons learned from experience and provide fresh ideas to take back to your classrooms, from starting an aviation program to building a flight-training program. They’ll also show you how to integrate AOPA’s free aviation STEM curriculum into your school. Learn more or register now for early bird pricing.

Education Podcast

Professional Growth

Podcast on Timely Education Topics

School Psyched Podcast is hosted by three school psychologists who invite experts to share their insights on a range of topics, including evidence-based social and emotional learning, gifted students, legal considerations, and more-controversial issues, such as racial representation in special education.

Journalism Podcast

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Adventure Podcast Instilling the Values of Journalism

Created by John Sheehan, a producer of NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, The Radio Adventures of Eleanor Amplified invites students to listen together as world-famous radio reporter Eleanor foils devious plots, outwits crafty villains, and goes after the “big story.”

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Personal Safety App circleof6app.com

Social Media

Personal Safety in Precarious Situations

Created by sexual assault survivors, the Circle of 6 app for iOS and Android was born out of the White House’s “Apps Against Abuse” challenge in 2011.

EdTech Grants STEM toshiba.com

Funding & Recognition

Grants for Making Math and Science Engaging

Toshiba America Foundation provides edtech grants to educators to support technology-enhanced STEM learning for students in grades 6–12. The grants enable educators to purchase supplies and materials in order to roll out math and science project-based learning initiatives.

NASA Game Science Satallites spaceplace.nasa.gov

Mobile Learning

Search and Rescue Game

A distress call from an emergency beacon goes off somewhere in the world. Satellites orbiting high above Earth receive the signal and relay the person’s location to search and rescue crews on the ground. In Rescue 406, an iOS mobile game by NASA, students use the information from these satellites to direct the rescue effort.

Kahoot Game Based Learning create.kahoot.it

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Library of Curriculum-Aligned Games

Kahoot!, the game-based learning platform, has launched Kahoot! Studio, offering a library of ready-to-play, curriculum-aligned, and original Kahoot! game collections.

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Essential STEM Resources to Spark Creativity

Quill.com helps educators launch the new school year with fresh lesson plans and activities, as well as products, supplies, and technology to create engaging and positive learning environments. Teachers can put their students’ creativity into high gear with 3D models and other STEM activities. They can brush up on their professional growth efforts (and receive a CE certificate) with relevant webinars on topics such as “Teaching with Technology,” “Tech As a Learning Tool,” and “Creating Brain-Friendly Classrooms.” Quill’s Educator Resource Center grows by the day with sources to enrich STEM projects, grants to expand special programs, and links to access more than 85,000 classroom essentials.

Vietnam War Documentary medium.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Documentary Series Commemorating the Vietnam War

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s ten-part, 18-hour documentary series entitled The Vietnam War will premiere on Sunday, September 17, on PBS stations nationwide. The documentary tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film.

Diverse Schools

Professional Growth

Ideas for Creating Diverse and Equitable Schools

What do diverse schools and school systems do to move from being desegregated to being truly integrated? RIDES (Reimagining Integration: Diverse and Equitable Schools) provides a curated set of links to resources for supporting deeper work in each of the seven areas on the Systemic Improvement Map developed by Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Photography Contest

Funding & Recognition

Student Photography Contest for Earth Science Week

The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is sponsoring a student photography contest during Earth Science Week (October 8–14, 2017). Students of all ages can participate by submitting a photo that relates to this year’s theme—Earth and Human Activity Here.

Science Chemistry Haikus

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Chemical Elements As Interactive Haiku

A British poet and fiction writer got creative with the periodic table, writing 119 science haiku, one for each element, plus a closing haiku for element 119 (not yet synthesized).

Story and Drawing Apps kindoma.com

Social Media

Video Chats Encouraging Reading and Drawing

Instead of just talking during a video chat, young children can read, draw, and play over video calls or through messaging, using Kindoma’s Storytime and Drawtime apps for iOS.

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