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eGFI - American Society for Engineering Education
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): engineering (129), STEM (174)
In the Classroom
Be sure to bookmark eGFI as an excellent resource for STEM and career exploration activities. Have students choose one of the engineering fields to explore as part of a career unit. Download and share monthly magazines with students to include as part of independent reading activities or reading centers. Have students use Fakebook (reviewed here) to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about an engineer in their chosen field. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools (reviewed here).You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Teaching NGSS Engineering Design Through Media - PBS LearningMedia
Grades
K to 12tag(s): architecture (85), energy (207), engineering (129), problem solving (294), robotics (29), STEM (174), structures (23)
In the Classroom
Use this site on a projector or interactive whiteboard to discuss and informally assess prior knowledge as you start your study of many different STEM-based topics. Use this site for enrichment or to help non-readers understanding concepts through video. Include it on your class web page for students to access both in and out of class. Have students create a simple infographic sharing their findings using Easel.ly, reviewed here or Venngage reviewed here. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as Wordle reviewed here, Tagxedo reviewed here, or WordItOut reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Edspire - Jim Moodie
Grades
11 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): advanced placement (25), learning styles (22)
In the Classroom
Use this resource to learn information to increase your knowledge and extend learning beyond the textbook. Link to this site from your gifted resource page. Gifted students will find a great variety of courses and materials in many fields and interests that can stretch their learning past the High School level. If you teach an AP class in your school, encourage students to find a passion related to your class. If possible, create an assignment where students choose their area of interest, take a course related to it (many courses are only 4 hours in length), and present material to the rest of the class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Made By Milk Carton Construction Contest - Evergreen Packaging
Grades
K to 12tag(s): architecture (85), counting (113), grants (18), STEM (174), structures (23)
In the Classroom
This project is perfect for individual classroom participation, Art Clubs, or after school clubs. Incorporate this project into your math class and have students count the number of cartons used, estimate how many cartons needed, or calculate how long it will take to gather the number of needed cartons. Join in the challenge in conjunction with a science unit on structures or a physics unit at much higher levels. Include as part of your nutrition unit to help students understand the importance of dairy in a healthy diet. Share this information with your PTO/PTA as a possible "makers movement" idea for an evening of fun and learning, even if you never enter the official contest. Let your gifted students (or a school service club) organize and plan a mini-version of the contest within your school, perhaps using the smaller milk cartons from the cafeteria. Make re-using milk cartons a creative event for Earth Day.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science Fair Coach - Maille
Grades
3 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): science fairs (25), scientific method (67), STEM (174)
In the Classroom
Use information from this site to help students who struggle with te concepts of creating and carrying out a good science fair project. Assign science fair projects as extra credit for students to pursue individualized experiences and knowledge or as a regular part of the curriculum for scientific method. Even if you don't do a full science fair, use ideas form this site to help students envision scientific method through specific examples. Have them make a graphic organizer that shows the progression of steps involved in science investigations. Use a site such as Canva, reviewed here, to create visual graphic organizers. Share this link on your class website during science fair time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science of Golf - NBC Universal Media, LLC
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): conservation (128), energy (207), friction (14), sports (99), STEM (174), water (134)
In the Classroom
Be sure to place this link on your classroom page for students to view the videos and build their understanding of physics concepts. Show these videos at the beginning of a new unit or to reinforce a concept just learned. Share the video on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Encourage your students to create their own investigations into golf or another sport. Measure or record golf swings, etc. to further show understanding of the material. Be sure to view videos on how the understanding of physics has led to better golf equipment! This is STEM applied to sports, a topic sure to interest many students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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My NASA Data - NASA
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (198), data (161), scientific method (67), scientists (69)
In the Classroom
For younger grades, learn about "Basic Line Plots" or "Creating a Bar Graph." There are many other lessons including "The Sun's Energy," "Solar Power," and "Seasons." For Middle School Students, identify "Aruba Cloud Cover Measured by Satellite," "Is Grandpa Right, Were Winters Colder When He Was A Boy," or "Does Humidity Affect Cloud Formation?" Older students can discover "Variable Affecting Earth's Albedo," "March of the Polar Bears: Global Change, Sea Ice, and Wildlife Migration," "Carbon Monoxide and Population Density" or "Hurricane Research." Though there is a large amount of lessons that coordinate with environmental issues, be sure to click on all the lesson plans to view all the possibilities. There is an unbelievable amount of topics to choose from that can fit in any science curriculum or many other type of classrooms at any age. History classes can use "1492: Using Data to Explain a Journey." Be sure to test out all links at school to be sure it is not blocked by your school filter.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TackTile - Doug Keith
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): animals (322), atoms (55), biodiversity (34), biomes (138), cells (99), chemicals (44), earth (224), earthquakes (50), electricity (92), energy (207), engineering (129), forces (45), life cycles (24), magnetism (38), matter (61), moon (72), motion (69), natural disasters (20), natural resources (58), plants (174), rock cycle (10), rocks (52), solar system (119), sun (69), volcanoes (66)
In the Classroom
This tool has great ideas and ready to use images and videos from around the Internet. Use as a starter activity to engage students and "hook" them into the lesson. Use the images or videos to discover misconceptions, find prior knowledge before beginning the lesson, or just to interest students in the topic. Show the image or video on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Be sure to share this site (with a log in) on your class website for students to use when preparing individual or group presentations. Use resources in these tiles to engage students in creative writing about science or to explain the concepts learned at the end of the unit.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Build with Chrome - Google Chrome and LEGO
Grades
K to 12tag(s): architecture (85), creative writing (165), creativity (118), engineering (129), geometric shapes (173), structures (23), tessellations (6)
In the Classroom
Allow your students to explore a virtual LEGO playground without having to keep the plastic bins organized! Create a whole class account if your students do not have their own emails or use the Gmail sub account trick explained here. Challenge them to see how large a building they can build with only a limited number of bricks. Have your students build two dimensional tessellations or something that represents a geometric shape. Teach basic math concepts such as volume or multiplication by counting brick units. Your students can select a place in the world to build and research the architectural designs associated with that location. Challenge your students to build a design to fit that geographic environment. Encourage your students to locate and research different historical monuments or buildings around the world and recreate them using the virtual LEGO bricks. Have your students research the ecology and climate of where they are building. Your students can construct creations for humans or animals that live in that ecosystem. Integrate writing with your students Build with Chrome creations. Have them write descriptions and explanations of their designs. Your students can also write stories about events that may have occurred at the building they created. Assign your students different regions around the world and challenge them to build a cultural center for the area. Use the Google Maps interface to travel around the world as students use Swipe, reviewed here, to present information of their Build with Chrome building and the culture. Create your own town with the buildings created by your students. Create a newspaper for your town using a site such as Zinepal, reviewed here. Click to "Start with a blank e-Book." This is a great tool for cross-grade activities in a gifted program or sharing among students in several schools.Comments
This is a great idea. My school has a lego club and this would be great for the students.Lorraine, VA, Grades: 1 - 3
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Bootstrap - Emmanuel Schanzer
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Bootstrap is best used in a Math or Technology class. Additionally, students who are interested in the topic can learn as part of an extra project (Graduation Project or after school program) or as part of a Gifted Program. Check out the information in the Materials section to view content covered. Use these tips for safely managing email registrations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Crunchzilla - Crunchzilla
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
When discussing computer science and how technology touches all of our lives, be sure to discuss coding and that it is a language that everyone can learn. Show the HTML markup of a page to show what the computer "reads" to form what websites look like. Use these tools to show basics in coding. When students are working, be sure to not rescue them with answers. Encourage learning by telling them to ask three other students first before asking the teacher AND that it is okay if we learn it together. Use other coding programs such as Scratch, reviewed here. Have students create a tutorial or a quick reference guide for using coding. Create a class wiki to share your reference guide. If you want to learn more about wikis, check out the TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through. Share this site with your young gamers to lure them into the logical world of coding -- and actually build STEM skills in the process.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Edheads - Edheads.org
Grades
7 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): medicine (70), simple machines (35), STEM (174), weather (201)
In the Classroom
Use these engaging activities on an Interactive Whiteboard or on individual computers. Students can record vital information they have learned about each of the interactives to share in a class discussion at the end. Ask questions that connect your class content to the interactives. How is Math or Science useful here? Students can journal what they feel watching these interactives and infer what a person working in that interactive would be thinking or feeling.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science and Engineering of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games - NBC Learn
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Use these video clips to bring the Olympics alive in your science or math classes. Great for current events and STEM lessons, these clips are quick and simple - yet full of information. Share the clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Or better yet, challenge cooperative learning groups to view one of the videos and create a project to share with the class demonstrating the science (or math) concepts highlighted in the video. For quick projects, create electronic graphics of important words using a tool such as Typogenerator (reviewed here) or Wordle (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Chemistry Now - NBC Universal Media, LLC
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): atoms (55), medicine (70), molecules (45), periodic table (51)
In the Classroom
Use the Cheeseburger Chemistry series of videos to explain very common Chemistry concepts in the classroom, from the bread of the cheeseburger down to the condiments! View Chemistry all throughout the household including cleaners, fibers and dyes, pain medicines, the chemistry of color and smell, and more. Be sure to use these short videos to garner interest in a topic at the start of a unit. Apply a concept learned to the real world for better understanding. Be sure to place this link on your class page for students to view. Students can view the videos and introduce the material to the class as a version of current events.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Glean - Glean Labs, Inc
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): area (73), atoms (55), charts and graphs (198), dna (64), equations (151), forces (45), fractions (228), friction (14), functions (69), geometric shapes (173), inequalities (26), motion (69), newton (26), order of operations (40), perimeter (31), periodic table (51), polynomials (28), quadratics (31), ratios (63), scientific method (67), square roots (22), STEM (174), variables (20), vectors (24), water (134)
In the Classroom
Share a link to Glean on your class webpage or blog for students to access throughout the year. Encourage students to create their own Glean account -- especially for use at home -- to personalize preferences in their learning style. Choose favorite videos to watch together on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Use Glean videos as a model to challenge cooperative learning groups to create videos and share them on a site such as TeacherTube reviewed here. Flip your classroom and challenge students to view the videos at home and discuss the topic in class the following day.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Free Green - Freegreen.com
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): architecture (85), design (88), environment (325)
In the Classroom
Use this site for technology education classes, design projects, STEM/applied math, or architecture. Research and explain green building methods or make a poster or ad campaign for one of the techniques being used. Have students create online posters individually or together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here) or PicLits (reviewed here. View the different plans to note some of the similarities and differences in materials and design features being used. Compare the designs, materials, or features between green homes and more traditional builds. Compare using a tool such as the Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here). In math class, have students compare building costs and other quantitative aspects of green vs traditional homes as an applied math project.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Discovery News - Discovery
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): archeology (32), dinosaurs (55), egypt (67), evolution (102), genetics (88), news (262), psychology (66), religions (68), robotics (29), space (221)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a resource for current events projects or when discussing news relative to the class content. Find informational texts galore to practice CCSS literacy skills! (If you need a reading level, paste the url for the specific article into Juicy Studio's readability checker, reviewed here.) Have students research what's going on via this news site, and give a brief presentation for a current events assignment or as extra credit. Again, preview any stories that students may be exploring. You may even want to provide the direct ULRs to the stories rather than have students explore the site on their own. Students can either orally present or, for the technologically inclined, create a short video or podcast summarizing the information. Have students create videos and share them using a tool such as SchoolTube reviewed here. Have students write their information in a short summary and include background information that ties the information into the class or teaches something new and relevant. Practice science literacy skills with these engaging stories!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Open Yale Courses - Yale University
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9 to 12tag(s): african american (109), american revolution (85), art history (77), atmosphere (31), business (58), civil war (144), ecology (138), ecosystems (93), engineering (129), evolution (102), financial literacy (87), france (37), greece (27), greeks (33), novels (22), poetry (219), psychology (66), religions (68), romans (35), sociology (22), space (221)
In the Classroom
This is an excellent resource for gifted students as well as students interested in viewing high quality college level course material. Browse through topics of interest for your AP or IB classroom and use selected videos for viewing on your interactive whiteboard (or projector). Share a link on your class webpage for students to view at home. Teachers of gifted may want to suggest that students form small cohorts to explore one of the course of particular interest to them. Music and art history teachers will find rich materials to include in their high school courses, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The 25 Best Nerd Road Trips - Popular Science
Grades
9 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): scientists (69)
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Use these "road trips" as a springboard for unusual research projects on science topics. These are great for gifted students or skeptical students who need the extra spark of researching something a little quirky. These are also great ideas for small group research. Encourage students to create presentations about real life science with its benefits and drawbacks. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Be sure to discuss when science enters pop culture in our society. The Center for PostNatural History, one of the sites on this map, is one such example (located near Pittsburgh, PA where organisms have been altered genetically and possibly questionably.)Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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STEM Behind Hollywood - Texas Instruments
Grades
4 to 10This site includes advertising.
tag(s): diseases (72), forensics (26), space (221), STEM (174)
In the Classroom
Pair this information and the related activities with classroom content, video clips, and data about related events (spreading of disease, space travel, etc.) Create discussions about various technologies, discoveries, and more to engage your students in the topics you are studying. Share the video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Share this link on your class website for students to explore at home and learn more about how Hollywood uses science and math in film, television, and beyond. Include this site in a careers unit so students can see how science can lead to many different careers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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