Create a Global Classroom, Tap Deeper Learning, Picture History & More

Charging Stations for Managing Mobile Technology

LocknCharge provides quality charging stations developed with districts, for districts. LocknCharge’s Putnam 16 Charging Station was developed with Putnam City Schools. Together LocknCharge and Putnam City solved the needs many schools face in charging and securing iPad or other tablet devices.

November 15, 2017

STEM Fellowship Grants

Funding & Recognition

Fellowship Grants for New Math and Science Teachers

The Knowles Science Teaching Foundation offers Teaching Fellowships in the areas of biological sciences, mathematics, technology, and physical sciences. The fellowships are designed to lead new high school math and science teachers through the first and second years of their career and provide financial and professional resources for successful STEM teaching.

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Mission for Teachers – Should They Choose to Accept!

Educators are invited to register to be an eCYBERMISSION Teacher/Team Advisor. eCybermission, a free web-based STEM competition for students in grades 6–9, promotes self-discovery and enables all students to recognize the real-life applications of STEM. eCYBERMISSION encourages students to develop solutions to real-world challenges in their local communities and compete for state, regional, and national awards. Teacher/Team Advisor Responsibilities include assembling a team; registering both teacher and students; assisting teams in choosing a Mission Challenge; assisting the team with its Mission Challenge; and submitting the team’s Mission Folder.

American Social History zoomin.edc.org

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Web Projects to Enhance Historical Thinking

The American Social History Project (ASHP) in the Center for Media Literacy at City University of New York has been at the forefront of history on the web since the mid-1990s, producing a variety of websites where teachers, students, and the general public can discover the past. The subjects range from revolutionary France to twenty-first century America and points in between.

Mobile Learning

New App from Sprint Safe and Found

Sprint recently launched Safe & Found, a feature-rich family services app designed to give parents the ability to view their child’s smartphone location—to help ensure that children are safe and to provide greater control over internet browsing and app usage. The website provides details on how Safe & Found can give family members peace of mind.

Folktale Podcast wbur.org

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Podcast Bringing Diverse Folktales to Life

Circle Round, a storytelling podcast for children aged 4–10, tells carefully selected folktales from around the world with an eye toward inclusivity. The stories are adapted into 10- to 20-minute diverse episodes that delve into topics such as kindness, persistence, and generosity, while taking children to places they didn’t think possible.

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Award for Exemplary Math or Science Teacher

The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) is currently accepting nominations in honor of outstanding math and science (including computer science) teachers of K–6. The award recognizes those teachers who develop and implement a high-quality instructional program that is informed by content knowledge and enhances student learning. Awardees join a network of more than 4,700 past recipients and receive a certificate from the President of the United States, a trip to Washington, DC, and $10,000. Educators are invited to nominate a teacher or begin an application on the PAEMST website. Nominations close on April 1, 2018; applications must be completed by May 1, 2018.

Art Contest debgroup.com

Funding & Recognition

Help Houston Rebuild Schools

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 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.

Professional Growth

Network Supporting Deep Learning

The Shadow a Student Challenge is an engaging, illuminating, and supportive journey where school leaders come together to empathize with their students and take new kinds of action at their school. The challenge is an initiative of IDEO’s School Retool, a professional development fellowship that helps school leaders redesign their school cultures using the small, scrappy experiments called “hacks” introduced in the Shadow a Student Challenge.

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.

Online Homework Support worldbooklearning.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Study and Research Boosters

World Book, Inc. has launched World Book World of Wisdom (WOW), where children aged 8–14 can go for fun learning, reading, and homework support. WOW is a child's individualized virtual play and learning space.

Lady Gaga Born This Way

Funding & Recognition

Support for Mental and Emotional Wellness

Cofounded by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, the Born This Way Foundation supports the wellness of young people and empowers them to create a kinder, braver world by fostering kinder communities, improved mental health resources, and more positive environments—online and offline.

Collaboration Students levelupvillage.com

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Global Collaborations in the STEAM Classroom

Level Up Village aims to globalize the classroom and facilitate collaboration between students from around the world via Global STEAM (STEM + Arts) enrichment courses. This social impact company offers STEAM courses for students in K–9.

Addition Math App little10robot.com

Mobile Learning

Number Crunching Gameplay

Developed by Little 10 Robots for iPhone and iPad, Calcugators – Addition immerses students in entertaining gameplay while sharpening their addition skills. Although the app focuses on addition, students have a variety of ways to manipulate numbers and improve their overall number sense and problem solving skills

Blind Described Media

Funding & Recognition

Contest Describing Benefits of Audio Description

American Council of the Blind's Audio Description Project (ACB-ADP) and the Described and Captioned Media Program are cosponsoring the Benefits of Audio Description in Education (BADIE) contest for young people who are blind or visually impaired. The contest has four age categories, ranging from age 7 to age 21.

World War I loc.gov

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Artifacts and Events Related to the Great War

The Library of Congress is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the US entry into the Great War with exhibitions, lectures, symposia, film programs, recordings, publications, veterans’ stories, educational tools, and research guides to the Library’s World War I resources.

Hate in America

Professional Growth

Guide for Responding to Hate

What can we do to stop hate in America? The Southern Poverty Law Center offers a freely downloadable guide that sets out 10 principles with actionable ideas for fighting hate at the community level.

Interpret Analyze Art vislit.org

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Strategy for “Close Looking” at Artworks

The Art of Seeing Art is a process for carefully viewing and exploring a work of art on a deep level. Developed by the Toledo Museum of Art, The Art of Seeing Art presents a series of six recursive steps—Look, Observe, See, Describe, Analyze, and Interpret—that students can use when viewing any work of art in a museum’s collection or any image in everyday life.

At-Risk Intervention

Funding & Recognition

Grants for Testing and Intervention of At-Risk Children

Donegan Burns Foundation provides Testing and Intervention grants of up to $25,000 to organizations that place at-risk children in a specialized learning program as early as possible.

3D Model Tour 3d.si.edu

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Virtual Reality Tour of Apollo 11 Spacecraft

The Smithsonian Institution has made available a high-resolution 3D scan of the command module Columbia, the spacecraft that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. The highly detailed model allows anyone with an internet connection to explore the entire craft, including its intricate interior.

Physics App projects.delta.ncsu.edu

Mobile Learning

Physics in Hand

Students can turn their smartphones into a robust piece of data collection equipment with the MyTech app designed for iOS and Android. Ideal for a physics lab environment, the app allows students to analyze the motion of the device using raw data from the phone’s internal sensors as the phone falls, spins, or collides with springs.

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