36 Resources for STEM Project-Based Learning Activities
If you’re a teacher or homeschool parent looking for ideas for STEM project-based learning activities, then you’ve come to the right place! We’ve compiled a list of terrific STEM project-based learning activities that can be tailored to meet your students’ needs. STEM, like PBL and inquiry-based learning activates critical thinking which you can read more about in our Ultimate Guide to Critical Thinking.
Calling All Teachers: Tell Us About a Tool That Works!
To do amazing work, teachers need the best tools. Just as chefs use top-grade knives to create a delicious meal, or doctors rely on accurate, dependable medical equipment to care for patients, great teachers use high-quality tools and curriculum aligned to college- and career-ready standards to help their students succeed.
12 STEM Resources for Teachers
According to the STEM (Science Technology, Engineering, and Math) Coalition, there are 26 million STEM jobs in the U.S., comprising 20% of all jobs. By 2022, there will be 9.2 million new STEM jobs in the U.S. Despite the need for these workers, only 45% and 30% of high school seniors are prepared for college-level math and science courses, respectively. As the American K-12 system continues to look for ways to boost student interest and aptitude in STEM learning, technology is playing an increasingly pivotal role.
Here is how we will improve digital skills and create more jobs in Europe
This week is European Get Online Week (GOW), a campaign aimed to engage and empower people to use technology and the Internet with confidence and acquire digital skills. #GOW15 will see the involvement of 25 countries and directly target more than 50,000 Europeans. I take this opportunity to summarize our actions and targets with regards to boosting digital skills and jobs in Europe. For everyone a natural consequence of technological innovation is the quest for new types of skills. Yet skills development does not come about as fast as technological development, which is why we are faced with a paradoxical situation: although almost 24 million Europeans are currently without a job companies have a hard time finding skilled digital technology experts. As a result, there could be up to 825,000 unfilled vacancies for ICT (Information and Communications technology) professionals by 2020.
“Rationally” Sketching Functions – App Lesson - App Ed Review
Description: This app lesson will develop high school students’ knowledge and ability to sketch, plot, and understand rational functions. Instructional Objective: Students will be able to sketch rational functions, noting the x and y intercepts, asymptotes, and the locations of curves. Step 1: Students will watch this video in which the graph is sketched, solving algebraically the following: the x and y intercepts, horizontal asymptotes, vertical asymptotes, then sketching the curves using knowledge of end behavior in the Khan Academy app.
8 first projects to get students using technology
The beginning of school is always a fun and crazy time. Kids are winding down from summer break (as are you) and schedules and classes are still getting settled. But with all of the business, setting the tone for a year of making with Wixie is important. Wixie might be just about the easiest tools for elementary students to learn! Wixie is open-ended which means you and your students still have to decide what to do! Here are eight ideas for first projects to get students using technology, including information about software skills they have to learn to complete them.
Different Approaches To Using Student Blogs And Digital Portfolios
More and more educators are discovering the importance of having their students build some form of digital presence. Blogging is an excellent way for students to create their own online space, but what do you call this? Simply a student blog?Digital portfolio?ePortfolio?Learning showcase?
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If you think you are beaten, you are; if you think you dare not, you don't; if you like to win, but you think you can't it's almost certain you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can. "DON'T QUIT" Author Unknown
Enhancing the student digital experience: a strategic approach
“The student experience is inherently digital. It is up to us whether we play an active role in shaping that experience or not.As educators we can support positive digital practices - those critical, thoughtful, professional and scholarly uses of technology that we know give learners the best chance of success.Or we can leave them to their own devices, which I believe has many risks for their learning and for our relevance as educators in the modern world.”Helen Beetham, consultant in higher education Use digital technologies to establish online relationships For many students the relationship with an institution begins online – the quality of information and the experience during initial investigations and the responses to any queries will make an impression. Case study - University of Glasgow International students at the University of Glasgow took a pre-sessional English language course in digital English developed by the university’s English as a Foreign Language (EFL) unit.
The Effects of Technological Changes on Education - App Ed Review
Imagine going back in time, before the onset of the internet, and having to write a seminar paper for one of your university courses. Sounds easy? Well, think again. Nowadays, we take most of our technology for granted, but back in the day, you’d have to go through the whole tedious process of searching the university libraries manually, writing stuff down on a piece of paper, and then typing it all over again.
Elementary Lesson Plans - Technology Projects 4 Kids
1st GradeTraveling Through Time (PDF)Timelines are a great teaching tool. It helps take some of the confusion out of history. Using the template from Kidspiration, students will divide their timeline into three equal parts, past, present, and future. The picture that is created helps students see how transportation has evolved, changed and even overlapped through time. 3rd GradeHERE TODAY, GONE TO MALI (webpage)You are going to Mali! Well, not really, but you will need to pack a suitcase as if you were going there.
The Science Master: A Resource For Curious Students
Most teachers like to encourage the natural curiosity of their students. Sometimes, clever questions from students can leave us stumped. The Science Master is a wonderful resource that helps students draw their own conclusions about their burning science questions. What Is The Science Master? The Science Master website has been set up on Edublogs.
