Empower Educators to Teach Originality
With Turnitin Feedback Studio’s similarity checking service, educators can leverage the world’s largest collection of internet, academic, and student paper content. Teaching originality requires more than just plagiarism detection; paired with commenting and grading tools and classroom resources, Feedback Studio helps teach students the value of their authentic voice.
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November 15, 2019
captainplanetfoundation.org
Funding & Recognition
Grants to Support the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards
The
Captain Planet Foundation awards
ecoSolution Grants to implement solution-oriented, youth-led projects that result in real environmental outcomes. Grants support the purchase of materials and other expenses required to carry out the project.
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Literacy Resources
Encourage Curiosity in Your Students for High Achievement
In Disrupting Thinking, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst discuss an ongoing problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too often, no matter the strategy shared with students, too many students remain disengaged and reluctant readers. The problem, they suggest, is that we have misrepresented to students why we read and how we ought to approach any text—fiction or nonfiction. With their hallmark humor and appreciated practicality, Beers and Probst present a vision of what reading and education across all the grades could be. Hands-on strategies make it immediately applicable for the classroom teacher, and turn-and-talk discussion points make it a guidebook for schoolwide conversations. In particular, they share new strategies and ideas for helping classroom teachers create engagement and relevance, encourage responsive and responsible reading, deepen comprehension, and develop lifelong reading habits.
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casel.org
Professional Growth
Guide to Effective Social–Emotional Learning Programs
The
CASEL Guide provides a systematic framework for evaluating the quality of social and emotional programs, and applies this framework to identify and rate well-designed, evidence-based SEL programs with potential for broad dissemination to schools across the United States.
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globalgamejam.org
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Event Fostering Game Design and Game Education
The
Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world’s largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical locations. Participants come together, share experiences, and express themselves in a multitude of ways using video games.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Assessment That Reaches All Students
The MAP Suite brings learning into focus—so you can support growth, skills mastery, and early literacy for every student. This cohesive assessment system from the nonprofit NWEA illuminates student learning, helps teachers target instruction, and gives administrators what they need to help their districts thrive.
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think.mit.edu
Funding & Recognition
Science, Research, and Innovation Competition
The
MIT THINK Scholars Program is a nationwide educational initiative from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that encourages high school students to turn their science, technology, and engineering ideas into reality. To participate in the program, students must submit a research proposal for consideration.
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earthobservatory.nasa.gov
Mobile Learning
Google Earth Virtual Tour of Locations Forming an Alphabet
One of the most intriguing virtual tours on
Google Earth is
Reading the ABCs from Space. Developed by
NASA, this tour is comprised of
26 chapters that reveal locations that form an alphabet, such as a coral reef in the shape of a “J” or the intersection of two lakes that resembles a “V.”
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Photo by Stephen Walker on Unsplash
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Videos Presenting Histories and Stories of Native Americans
Native American Heritage Month is a time to introduce students to the rich cultures and histories of indigenous peoples in the United States. With
Described and Captioned Media’s accessible videos, students learn about the histories, achievements, dances, languages, and stories of Native Americans.
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Professional Growth
Webinars on Ideas from the Education Field
The
ASCD Webinar Archive is a treasure trove of teaching/learning insight from experts in the field. The webinars cover everything from
tackling attendance challenges to
understanding the neuroscience of learning.
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Photo by Matthew T Rader on Unsplash
Funding & Recognition
Environmental Research and Design Challenge
The
Clean Tech Competition is a worldwide research and design challenge for precollege youth. The program encourages scientific understanding of real-world issues and the integration of environmentally responsible energy sources.
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plantnet.org
Mobile Learning
Image-Sharing App for Identifying Plant Species
Pl@ntNet allows users of
iOS and
Android devices to
identify plants simply by photographing them with their smartphones. Pl@ntNet is also a
citizen-science project: all the plants that users photograph are collected and analyzed by scientists around the world to better understand the evolution of plant biodiversity and better preserve it.
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Funding & Recognition
Mini-Grants for Collaborative STEM Programs
The
National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) awards
mini-grants to girl-serving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)–focused programs to support collaboration, address gaps and overlaps in service, and share exemplary practices.
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google.com
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Google Project Raising Awareness of Indigenous Languages
Users of
Google Earth can hear more than 50 indigenous language speakers from across the globe saying words and simple phrases and even singing traditional songs. The project, called
Celebrating Indigenous Languages, honors the
United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Organization Taking STEM Beyond the Classroom
The
Technology Student Association (TSA) is a national nonprofit organization of middle school and high school students who are engaged in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Since TSA was chartered in 1978, almost 4,000,000 student members have participated through competitions, intracurricular activities, leadership opportunities, community service, and more.
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latino.si.edu
Digital Learning • Learning Support
SPOTLIGHT! On US History from a Latino Perspective
The
Smithsonian Latino Center collaborates throughout the Smithsonian and beyond to promote national dialogue on the role of museums and cultural centers in advancing Latino-community cultural development.
The Molina Family Latino Gallery is set to debut in 2021 and will focus on sharing the stories of Latino communities in the United States.
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secdlab.org
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Space for Respectful Discourse Around Civics-Related Issues
Youth Nation was created by
Rutgers University’s
Social–Emotional and Character Development (SECD)
Lab for adolescents to exercise political expression and hear from other youth around the country. The website is intended to show students how they can push their limits and understand themselves through thoughtful stories.
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thetech.org
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Engineering Design Challenge to Solve Real-World Problems
The Tech Challenge, the signature program of
The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California, invites teams of students in grades 4–12 to use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem. Participants spend months engaged in the challenge while documenting their progress and designs.
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aises.org
Digital Learning • Learning Support
STEM-Focused Career Readiness for Native Americans
Published five times a year by the
American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES),
Winds of Change is a nationally distributed
magazine with a single-minded focus on career and educational advancement for American Indians/Alaska Natives/Native Hawaiians/First Nations, with an emphasis on STEM.
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