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“Welcome to the Wired How-To Wiki Collaborate with Wired editors and add to our library of projects, hacks, tricks and tips. Browse more than 300 how-to articles and add to them, or start a new one.”
- – By valerie taylor
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CIESE – Curriculum: K-12 CIESE Online Classroom Projects
“CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. We focus on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet’s potential to reach peers and experts around the world.”
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GEOSET Global Educational Outreach for Science Engineering and Technology
“The Global Educational Outreach (GEO) initiative uses new technology to provide outstanding Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) teaching material. It is a highly flexible medium enabling a wide range of different educational approaches to be explored and it is particularly useful for SET teachers who will find valuable downloadable teaching resource material created by the best science and technology experts and educators. A key aim is to catalyse the creation of a global network of participating sites catering to the local and global need for much improved SET education.
The material on this website is free to view and download!”
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CIESE – Curriculum: K-12 CIESE Engineering Projects
“In this activity students will take part in an engineering design experience that allows them to observe”
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“Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is the leading provider of rigorous and innovative Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education curricular programs used in middle and high schools across the U.S.”
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“STEMscopes™ is a K-12 comprehensive online science curriculum program that provides hands-on inquiry activities, assessments, problem-based-learning, intervention tools, acceleration materials, and teacher support resources.”
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“Math in the News
Current events, as seen through the prism of mathematics: This is what “Math in the News” brings every week. We look through stories that make today’s headlines and extract the mathematical story underlying it.”- – By valerie taylor
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K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library – Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL
“We invite you to Learn, Connect, and Create with high-quality teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology for use by K-12 and university educators and students.”
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Stratasys 3D-Printed Magic Arms
“3D-Printed “Magic Arms” Help Little Girl Play and Hug 2-year-old Emma wanted to play with blocks, but a condition called arthrogryposis meant she couldn’t move her arms. So researchers at a Delaware hospital 3D printed a durable custom device with the tiny, lightweight custom parts she needed. Emma calls them her “magic arms.””
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“Games
Institutions
Programs & Communities
Tools & Resources”- – By valerie taylor
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Engineers build Raspberry Pi supercomputer
“The team, led by Professor Simon Cox, consisted of Richard Boardman, Andy Everett, Steven Johnston, Gereon Kaiping, Neil O’Brien, Mark Scott and Oz Parchment, along with Professor Cox’s son James Cox (aged 6) who provided specialist support on Lego and system testing.”
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DESIGN SQUAD NATION . Fidgit Factory | PBS KIDS GO! | PBS KIDS GO!
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Challenging the Model of 1:1 with BYOD | Edutopia
“Why Mixed Devices? Our aim for using mixed devices was to challenge teachers and students to really integrate technology into their instruction and learning. By having multiple devices available, users are challenged to determine which device best suits their learning purpose, and teachers are also challenged to rethink how they are using technology. “
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Video: Harvard’s Robotic Tentacle Can Lift a Flower Without Crushing It | Popular Science
” soft robotic tentacles here before, but researchers from Harvard working with the Department of Energy and DARPA have come up with one that they claim is sensitive and nuanced enough to grip and manipulate a flower without breaking it. Their work is detailed in the latest issue of the journal Advanced Materials.
Most robot grippers/manipulators work in a very mechanical fashion. That is, they are generally made of solid materials and controlled by various actuators and joints that allow them to assist in tasks like factory manufacturing.”
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“Leonardo developed a unique new attitude about machines. He reasoned that by understanding how each separate machine part worked, he could modify them and combine them in different ways to improve existing machines or create inventions no one had ever seen before. Leonardo set out to write the first systematic explanations of how machines work and how the elements of machines can be combined.”
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InventorsToolbox: The Elements of Machines
“Simple Machines: These devices were all in common use for centuries before Leonardo’s time. Each one makes work easier to do by providing some trade-off between the force applied and the distance over which the force is applied.”
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STEM: Inventions & Innovations Unit – Stacie Shaner – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“students will complete four stations, discuss Rube Goldberg cartoons, review or learn about the six simple machines (inclined plane, wedge, pulley, lever, wheel and axle, and screw), and create their own Rube Goldberg contraptions using the simple machines.”
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Helicopter Drop – Bryce Hixson – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“Helicopter Drop by Bryce Hixson
Take a single strip of copy paper and make three cuts and five folds to create a ready-to-fly helicopter. You can experiment with surface area and friction, and have a lot of fun adapting the design. Great way to teach the effect of gravity and friction on a falling object, experiment with torque and changing forces, and open the door to imagination and engineering.”- – By valerie taylor
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Build a Better Tower – Dr. Tony – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“”Engineering Principles” description of the concepts, a “Thoughtful Questions” sheet, and an unit outline for teaching the course with a hands-on component. “
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“Using simple, everyday materials, marshmallows and toothpicks, your students can build marshmallow structures. They practice math skills by adding together materials used to get the total number. This product offers background information to set the stage for this science and math project – talk about plate tectonics, earthquakes and why they occur, etc. Through this project, the students will learn about earthquakes and seismic testing of buildings.”
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Engineering Project 01 – Water Rocket Design Challenge – Bill Young – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“As students are working through their various build sessions, we pause ocasionally to talk about the variables they are changing (independent), the expected outcome (dependent variable), and the records and/or graphs they are keeping on the flight times of their rocket (data collection and repeatable expeirmentation).”
- – By valerie taylor
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“PARACHUTE ENGINEERS!! In this lesson, your students will become parachute engineers. By using the principals of the scientific method and scientific inquiry they will design a parachute and make a modification to test a hypothesis.”
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“students will become “rollercoaster engineers” by designing a coaster out of pipe insulation tubing found at most home improvement stores. Through an iterative process they will test their coaster design with their “rider” a steel ball or marble.
This is a great way to address the scientific method, inquiry, and current/upcoming engineering standards in science.”- – By valerie taylor
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Kindergarten Engineering – Kristopher Szajner – TeachersPayTeachers.com
says kindergarten but would work for most k-8 “This is a combination of teacher made, and teacher found resources that I used as our Engineering unit for the year. Some great projects are listed and most of them are tied into liturature. “
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engineering behind air traffic control systems. Students work in teams to evaluate data generated for a virtual air traffic system, and determine a plan to bring three planes safely through a set airspace. They then recommend engineering enhancement to the current system.”
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Engineering Day – The Tutor House – TeachersPayTeachers.com
” includes 4 experiments you can do easily in the classroom with items you have handy!
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K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library – Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL
“Curricular Resources – Our Favorite K-12 Engineering Collections: “
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Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
“Dan Rothstein is co-director of the Right Question Institute which had its first offices in Somerville. Dan and co-author, Luz Santana, wrote the book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions published by Harvard Education Press. He shares with us the Question Formulation Technique™ and you have a chance to learn and experience it!”
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TEDxSomerville – Dan Rothstein: Did Socrates Get it Wrong? – YouTube
Speaker Dan Rothstein is co-director of the Right Question Institute which had its first offices in Somerville. Dan and co-author, Luz Santana, wrote the book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions published by Harvard Education Press. He shares with us the Question Formulation Technique™ and you have a chance to learn and experience it!
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Right Question Featured in Boston Sunday Globe IDEAS section
“A question is…a unique and potentially sophisticated instrument.”
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CTE/Technology & Engineering Education – UEN
“CTE/Technology & Engineering Education
Engineering Design
Exploring Technology
Foundations of Technology (FOT)
Industrial and Agricultural Technology
Introduction to Communications Technology”- – By valerie taylor
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Take a Spin on the Centrifuge (MIT Engineering K-12 Video Pilot) | MIT Video
“Take a Spin on the Centrifuge (MIT Engineering K-12 Video Pilot)
This video uses Man-Vehicle Lab’s human centrifuge to discuss centripetal force and countermeasures for astronaut bone and muscle loss in space. It shows the mathematics required to calculate centripetal force, and performs an experiment on the centrifuge with an “astronaut.””- – By valerie taylor
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Framework Diagram | Ocean Literacy
The figure below—and the smaller version that appears in the right sidebar on each page—provide a quick way to access the main features of the Ocean Literacy Framework. “
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good graphics, analogies
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Algebra 1—An Open Course – NROC // National Repository of Online Courses
“Algebra 1—An Open Course – NROC’s Algebra 1 course is designed to be used with first-time algebra students at a broad range of ability levels, from remedial to advanced. The content is correlated to all US state algebra frameworks and The Common Core. This course can be used as a stand-alone curriculum or as a supplement to any algebra textbook.”
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“the embodied experiences can lead to more effective learning – learning that is kinesthetic, collaborative, and multimodal. SMALLab Learning is at the forefront of this exciting new field of embodied learning.”
- – By valerie taylor
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Properties of Obj… | STEMscopes
“Teacher Background
Materials List
Scope Summary
Key Concepts & Fundamental Questions “- – By valerie taylor
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Home School NYC: Math and Economics Resources
“Math Resources” Math Books
For all ages
For the youngest crowd
For grade school kids
Computer games
Curriculum “candy”
Math-related games- – By valerie taylor
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