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Funding & Recognition
Grants for Specialized Science Equipment
Society for Science is offering STEM Research Grants to provide support to middle school and high school teachers engaging their students in authentic scientific research. For the purposes of this grant, a research project is defined as an independent investigation by a student that involves experimentation to answer a scientific question outside of regular classwork.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Primary Source Sets on the African American Experience
Through primary source analysis, The Plainest Demands of Justice, a new resource from the Bill of Rights Institute, explores the efforts to realize the nation’s founding principles of liberty, equality, and justice by exploring key periods in African American history.
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Mobile Learning
App to Help Children Regulate Emotions
An app called Mightier helps children develop emotional regulation through games that get harder if a monitor detects a rise in heart rate, often precipitated by frustration. The app, which was developed by Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers, incentivizes children to use coping skills they have learned to calm down, which lowers heart rate and brings the games back to an easier level.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Technologies That Benefit Everyday Life
There’s more space in your life than you think! Spinoff highlights NASA technologies that benefit life on Earth in the form of commercial products.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
SPOTLIGHT! On Hispanic Heritage Month
Each year, from September 15 to October 15, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. The tradition began in 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson first issued a proclamation to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Week. Later, Congress passed a bill to extend the celebration to last an entire month. The bill was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, and National Hispanic Heritage Month has been celebrated every year since 1989.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Game Kits Boosting Math and Language Literacy
Dungeons & Dragons is offering free education edition game kits that can be used in classrooms, libraries, and other programs to help teach various school subjects. In addition, the International Literacy Association, in partnership with Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, is offering webinars to dispel myths about the popular game, as well as provide suggestions for using the kits to boost literacy, creativity, and imagination.
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Professional Growth
Leadership Pathways for Latinos in Education
Latinos for Education is the first Latino-founded and Latino-led national organization solely dedicated to creating leadership pathways for Latinos in education. The organization provides fellowships for aspiring Latino leaders and Latinx Teachers, primarily in Massachusetts, Houston, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Science Labs with AI Grading and Feedback
InqITS (Inquiry Intelligent Tutoring System) is an online environment founded by university researchers for life, earth, and physical sciences. The design behind InqITS provides resources for teacher instruction and assessment, and for student education on critical science and learning skills.
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Funding & Recognition
Competition to Identify Future Leaders in STEM
The Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS) is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science competition for high school seniors. The competition provides a forum for original research that is recognized and reviewed by a national jury of professional scientists.
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Funding & Recognition
Free Grant-Finding Resource
GetEdFunding hosts thousands of education grants, including funding opportunities for public and private preK–12 schools and districts; awards for outstanding professionals; grants for teachers, media specialists, and administrators; and more. GetEdFunding is expanded, updated, and monitored daily. Users can personalize their searches by focus areas, skills and themes, and grade levels. After registering on the site, users can search, find, save, and apply.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum Destigmatizing Emotions
Five-time All-Star Cleveland Cavaliers player Kevin Love worked with educators and experts to develop a social and emotional learning curriculum, piloted it for two years, and is now offering the materials for free to high schools in the United States.
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Mobile Learning
Social–Emotional Learning Game Room
Harmony Game Room is a free app for iOS and Android from National University that includes a growing collection of games, tools, and other resources to help children in prekindergarten through grade 6 develop social-emotional learning (SEL) skills while they play.
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Professional Growth
Space Where Climate Change Action Becomes Youth Action
The Climate Initiative (TCI) provides tools to bring climate change education into your classroom and community. TCI’s Learning Lab includes free multidisciplinary modules that introduce climate issues through the high school classroom and bring them to life in a student’s local landscape.
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Funding & Recognition
Free Program for Young Instrumentalists to Hone Their Music Talents
Applications are open for Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Ensembles. Next summer remarkable teens from around the country will come together to train, tour, and perform on some of the world’s greatest stages—all for free.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Videos on Innovations Inspired by the Natural World
Inspiration is a mysterious thing. Who knows when or where it will strike. We’re fascinated by the catalysts for inspiration and how a simple “lightbulb” moment can lead to world-changing innovation. In this Bio-Inspiration YouTube series, the Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) looks at how inspiration can be found in the plants, animals, and phenomena all around us.
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