Solve Coding Puzzles, Create Oral Histories, Perform Shakespeare & More

Charging Stations for Managing Mobile Technology

Mobile device deployment is easier with LocknCharge. With Baskets by LocknCharge, students are able to assist in the distribution of devices, so teaching can happen faster. With the top-loading design of the LocknCharge carts, students can access devices from multiple points, and instructors don’t need to worry about wires getting caught in the door. See what customers are saying about LocknCharge.

October 16, 2017

Community Service Award spirit.prudential.com

Funding & Recognition

Awards Honoring Volunteer Community Service

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards honor students in grades 5–12 for outstanding service to others at the local, state, and national levels. The program’s goals are to recognize young people who are making a positive difference.

Professional Growth

Degree Programs in Curriculum and Instruction

Penn State World Campus consistently ranks in the top 10 graduate education programs in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Online Programs.” Penn State offers a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with five emphases to choose from: STEM Education; Elementary Education; Children’s Literature; Curriculum and Supervision; and Theory and Practice in English, Social Studies, and World Languages. Select the curriculum and instruction emphasis area that’s right for you. Learn from the same faculty who teach on campus and apply your new knowledge immediately in your classroom. Penn State’s program is asynchronous, so there is no need to log in at a specific time; study on your own time—from any location. Request a brochure.

Programming Coding App spritebox.com

Mobile Learning

Adventures Exploring Coding Concepts

SpriteBox Coding by LightBot is an adventure game for iOS and Android that gets students aged 6–8 coding. Students start from scratch by solving coding puzzles using icons.

STEM

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Project-based STEM Lessons

Defined STEM, created by Design Learning, offers online project-based lessons for preK–12 students. Videos show the application of concepts in a company or industry.

Mobile Learning

Closing the Homework Gap

Sprint and the Sprint Foundation have launched the 1Million Project, a multiyear initiative to offer free mobile devices and free high-speed wireless internet connectivity to 1 million low-income high school students lacking a reliable source of internet access at home. The expansive new program will help eliminate the “homework gap” that puts these students at a major disadvantage because they don’t have ready access to the internet needed for completing homework, communicating with teachers, or applying for jobs, scholarships, or college. Sprint is now accepting applications for the second year of the 1Million Project, which starts at the beginning of the 2018 - 2019 school year and runs for four years. High schools and school districts can earn a spot in the program by applying online.

Civics Game annenbergclassroom.org

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Game Applying Constitutional Rights

Developed by Filament Games, That’s Your Right is a single or multiplayer digital card game that teaches students in middle school and high school about the first ten amendments of the US Constitution, known collectively as the Bill of Rights.

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Building a Brighter Future with STEAM

If you are a public school teacher, enter the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest to empower students, inspire ideas, and create change. Incorporating STEAM into projects designed to help advance the interests of local communities teaches students critical thinking and, by extension, critical problem solving. Build a brighter future with STEAM. Apply online by November 9, 2017, for a chance to win a share of $2 million in Samsung technology!

Education Podcast

Professional Growth

Podcast Discussing Innovations in Education

With episodes that include superintendent, principal, teacher, and even student voices, the Getting Smart podcast provides members of the education community a weekly dose of “what’s hot” in education.

storycorps.org

Mobile Learning

Intergenerational Oral Histories

The Great Thanksgiving Listen is a national movement that empowers high school students to create an oral history of the contemporary United States by recording an interview with an elder using the free StoryCorps app for iOS and Android.

Funding & Recognition

Design Contest Encouraging Hand Hygiene

Healthy schools and happy students go hand in hand! That’s why Deb is giving schools the tools to make hand hygiene fun with Deb’s Annual Happy Hands Contest. K–12 schools now have the opportunity to educate students about the importance of hand washing, while also allowing them to express their artistic sides through the creation of an original design for a Deb dispenser. Schools can win too. The schools with the most popular designs will receive a $500 donation from Deb and free custom dispensers for their school. This year Deb is giving back with Design for Donation. For each dispenser design submitted for the Happy Hands Contest, Deb will donate $2 to Helping Houston Rebuild to aid schools rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey.

Deadline: November 30, 2017, for student designs

Shakespeare Competition

Funding & Recognition

Competition Showcasing Public Speaking Skills

The English-Speaking Union (ESU) celebrates English as a shared language to foster global understanding and goodwill by providing educational and cultural opportunities for students and educators. ESU’s National Shakespeare Competition presents teachers across the country with a performance-based program for the study of English language arts and Shakespeare.

Emotional Trauma Resources

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Coping Skills for Traumatized Children

Parents and caregivers have access to free resources from Sesame Street in Communities to help them support children who have experienced trauma. The free materials include videos, books, and games.

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

American History

Digital Learning • Learning Support

George Washington’s Documents

The Papers of George Washington are a monumental collection of 140,000 documents assembled by editors and scholars at the University of Virginia, who searched more than 300 libraries and archives in the United States and overseas to complete the picture of America’s first president and his times.

Science in the Classroom

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Annotations for Digesting Science Research

Science in the Classroom (SitC) is a free web resource for teachers and students from Science Magazine. On the website, teachers will find research papers containing interactive annotations to help students understand the content of the papers.

Interactive 3D Art sketchfab.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

3D Historical Artifacts in Virtual Reality

In 2015 The British Museum gave the world access to the Rosetta Stone, along with 4,700 other artifacts in the museum—but that access was only in 2D. Now the museum has published a 3D model of the Rosetta Stone and more than 200 other essential items in the museum’s collections.

Ethics Negotiation

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Exercise on Ethical Negotiating

“The House on Elm Street” is an exercise developed by Professor George J. Siedel with support from the University of Michigan. The activity involves the sale of a house. The twist in the exercise is that unknown to the seller, the buyer is a secret agent representing a large company.

Survey

Professional Growth

Tell Us About Yourself!

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Deadline: October 31, 2017, for completed surveys

Nasa Fitness Program trainlikeanastronaut.org

Funding & Recognition

Challenge Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

NASA’s Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut encourages children from around the world to pursue healthy lifestyles based on training like an astronaut. To prepare for an Earth-to-moon journey in 2018, Mission X is challenging Fit Explorers to perform activities that will move online mascot Astro Charlie the 66 million steps required to walk around Earth.

Professional Development Virtual Conference

Professional Growth

Virtual Event on Building a Digital Learning Environment

The Discovery Education Community invites teachers and administrators worldwide to participate in the 2017 Fall VirtCon on Saturday, October 21, 2017, from 8:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (ET).

Van Gogh vangoghmuseum.nl

Mobile Learning

Van Gogh’s Paintings—Beneath the Surface

The Van Gogh Museum’s free Touch Van Gogh app for iOS and Android allows students to poke, rub, and expose layers of Vincent van Gogh’s art in ways they couldn’t before.

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