5 Ways to Support Tech-Enabled Creativity in Teaching
Imagine creating a learning environment in which students of all ages and abilities find engaging learning modules and approaches that fit their unique needs. When teachers’ creativity and today’s technologies come together, they can unlock boundless opportunities to innovate lesson content creation and delivery. Download Logitech for Education’s latest e-book to learn five ways to support creative teaching with technology.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Equitable Science Learning for Underrepresented Students
The goal of OpenSciEd is to ensure that science teachers anywhere can access and download freely available, high-quality, locally adaptable full-course materials that support equitable science learning.
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Funding & Recognition
“STEM Journal” Student Challenge
Each month Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) holds competitions to encourage students and teachers to demonstrate their science excitement. Students can win prizes for sharing how they incorporate technology into their learning.
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Professional Growth
Guidance for Evaluating Next Generation Science Materials
NextGen TIME is a suite of tools and processes for curriculum-based professional learning that supports educators in evaluating, selecting, and implementing instructional materials designed for next generation science.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
3-Dimensional Learning Through an Interdisciplinary STEAM Curriculum
Cereal City Science offers a phenomenon-based K–8 science curriculum designed for the Next Generation Science Standards by integrating science, mathematics, and literacy through an interdisciplinary approach.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
SPOTLIGHT! On History, Culture, and Traditions of Indigenous Peoples
Throughout November, the United States celebrates Native American Heritage Month. These resources from the US government and other organizations help preserve the rich and diverse cultures, histories, and traditions of America’s Native peoples.
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Funding & Recognition
“Outreach to the Underserved” Grants
ALSC/Candlewick Press is offering “Light the Way: Outreach to the Underserved” grants of $3,000 to assist libraries conducting exemplary and replicable outreach to underserved populations through a new program or expansion of an existing program.
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Mobile Learning
Problem-Solving Explorations in Math, Science, and Computer Science
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 ages 10 through 110!
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Professional Growth
Next Generation Science Teaching Through Storylines
Districts, schools, and educators across the country are working on implementing a new vision for science classrooms based on the Framework for K–12 Science and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), in which teachers support students in science and engineering practices for building and using science ideas to explain real phenomena and solve real problems.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Inclusive Story of the American Revolution Told Through Art and Drama
“Liberty,” a new exhibit in the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, seeks to tell a more inclusive story of the American Revolution by introducing visitors to people critical to building the nation—yet whose names they’ve likely never heard.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
International Thanksgiving Dishes to Broaden Students’ Horizons
In the spirit of embracing the nature of the Thanksgiving holiday, University of Colorado Denver presents some different takes on traditional Thanksgiving dishes.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Virtual Learning and Collaboration to Design an Airport
The Airport Design Challenge is a seven-week interactive learning and collaboration opportunity that begins on November 15, 2021, and concludes on January 14, 2022. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Aviation and Space Education (AVSED) Program organizes and sponsors the challenge.
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Mobile Learning
Interactive Math Tool Promoting Problem Solving and Logical Thinking
Created by teachers, the CanFigureIt Geometry tool provides an easy-to-use workspace where students can practice geometric proofs while engaging in deductive reasoning. The tool covers several types of geometric proofs—from proving facts about lines to more complicated proofs on triangles, quadrilaterals, and circles.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Expanded Access to Higher Education for Historically Underrepresented Students
The National Education Equity Lab (NEEL) is forging a new kind of relationship between the nation’s colleges and high schools rooted in the belief that while talent is evenly distributed, opportunity is not. NEEL empowers colleges to take a more active role in developing and inspiring the next generation of leaders.
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Image by Aynur Zakirov from Pixabay |
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Earth Sounds Versus Mars Sounds
Two microphones aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover have recorded nearly five hours of Martian wind gusts, rover wheels crunching over gravel, and motors whirring as the spacecraft moves its arm. NASA has launched an interactive resource that allows listeners to hear recordings taken millions of miles away on the surface of the Red Planet.
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Funding & Recognition
“World Series of Innovation” Challenge
Every fall the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) launches a set of challenges in the NFTE World Series of Innovation. Students are invited to think big and submit ideas to advance the United Nations Global Goals, which together form a roadmap to a better future.
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