Game-Changing Integrated STEM
Explore Engineering and Computer Science Essentials™—a novel approach to teaching and learning engineering with computer science (CS) and computational thinking as a scaffolded, rigorous, NGSS-aligned curriculum for grades 1–5. Designed to supplement any core science program, Essentials helps meet newly adopted engineering and CS standards and prepares students to become the future workforce.
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Funding & Recognition
NASA Challenge Launching the Innovators of Tomorrow
Are you ready to get hands-on with a NASA project in the 2021–22 school year? On August 18, the NASA TechRise Student Challenge will start accepting entries.
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Mobile Learning
App That Helps Students Dive into Black History Using AR
Movers & Shakers NYC has created the free mobile app Kinfolk that transports students to an augmented reality (AR) space where they can walk up to virtual “monuments” of 10 famous Black historical figures and learn their stories.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Back-to-School Savings on Digital Books for Your Classroom
It’s time to go Back-to-School, and an even better time to outfit your MackinVIA’s digital bookshelves with some serious savings. Now through September 30, 2021, you’ll get 20% off on more than 300,000 K–12, fiction and nonfiction eBooks and audiobooks from dozens of publishers, exclusively at Mackin.com. It’s the perfect way to start the new school year, with fresh digital content for your school’s free, multiple-award-winning MackinVIA. When it comes to Back-to-School fashions, a 20% discount from Mackin is always in style.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Culturally Relative Formative Assessments
A group of researchers and education entrepreneurs have launched Assessment for Good to help teachers understand how students aged 8 to 13 are starting to see themselves in the world—culturally, socially, and academically—and how that constantly shifting sense of self takes shape and can support learning.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
From African Fractals to Adinka Computing—Culturally Situated STEM+C Activities
Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) team is to improve education, justice, and equity through new STEM+C educational methods. By eliminating misconceptions about race and gender in STEM+C, engaging students, and aiding teachers, CSDTs can simultaneously be used to teach science, empower students, and change perspectives.
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Professional Growth
Tools for Creating a Wellness-Informed Environment for Students
Inspirational quotes and food trucks won’t solve burnout, stress, and anxiety. Teachers need information and tools for handling challenges in their personal and professional lives. Pathways to Wellness is a comprehensive, research-based, teacher-first professional development program for preK–12 educators, delivered in a format that works for teachers: self-paced, online, three hours … with a 98% recommendation rate. The program provides a framework for proactively building resilience, gives actionable mental wellness strategies for personal life and the classroom environment, equips educators with language for conflict resolution (with coworkers and students), and delivers high value at a low cost for school communities.
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Funding & Recognition
Competition for Students to Learn About the World of Investing
The Wharton Global High School Investment Competition is a free online investment simulation for high school students (grades 9–12) and their teachers.
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Professional Growth
Podcast on Educational Technology Trends
The House of #EdTech podcast explores how technology is changing the way teachers teach and the impact that technology is having in education.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Program Spotlighting Diverse Young Innovators
As educators and students return to class this fall, Carolina Biological has launched the Young Innovators program to highlight student inventions and inspire students and teachers to see that all students can succeed in STEM.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Podcast Made by Teens Expressing Their Unique Perspectives on Life
This Teenage Life (TTL) podcast supports youth in connecting with themselves, each other, and caring adults through meaningful conversations around personally relevant topics not traditionally explored in middle school and high school classes.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Literacy Series Supporting Children’s Positive Identity Development
A is for Amazing, B is for Brave, C is for Creative … The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture offers caregivers and educators interactive Joyful ABC activity booklets to support children’s positive identity development while growing language and literacy skills.
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Mobile Learning
App Illuminating Math and Science in a New Way
Whether users want to hone their quantitative skills or improve their knowledge of science and technology, the Brilliant app for iOS and Android devices creates inspiring, interactive learning experiences for children and adults alike. With free, curated weekly problems, they can gain timeless knowledge and apply their problem-solving skills.
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Funding & Recognition
Nonprofit Introducing Students to Business Challenges
The nonprofit SuitUp is partnering with school districts and businesses to help students experience real-life business challenges and interact with entrepreneurs and business executives.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Real Science, Real Stories, Real Data Exploring the Living World
Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) BioInteractive website brings the power of real science stories into tens of thousands of high school and undergraduate life science classrooms. The stories anchor a variety of classroom resources based on peer-reviewed science.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
“Sesame Street” Racial Literacy Initiative
The four-year Coming Together project from Sesame Workshop is starting out with plans to support racial literacy by equipping students and caregivers with developmentally appropriate vocabulary, conversation starters, and other resources.
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