PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Blowing in the Wind
During this STEM lesson plan, learners will watch a clip from Curious George. Students will use this lesson plan to guide children in investigating how different objects move in the wind (moving air).
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Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Blast Off! Lesson Plan
In the STEM lesson plan, learners will watch rocket demonstrations from the teacher Then students will create their own rockets.
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Pbs: Teaching Ngss Engineering Design Through Media
A collection of activities and professional development resources to deepen teachers' understanding of Next Generation Science Standards. Site is meant to help teachers bring engineering alive for their students.
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Pbs Learning Media: Ready to Learn 2015 2020 Initiative
Through the Ready To Learn (RTL) Initiative, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), PBS, and local PBS stations provide free, evidence-based educational resources that help teachers, caregivers, and parents build early science...
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering: Greatest Achievements of the Twentieth Century
A history of the technological innovations of the twentieth century, told with timelines, essays, overviews, and images.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Students
This wide-ranging collection of resources includes games, informational slideshows and other online activities. Subjects include art, science, history, nature and culture.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sci Girls: Pick'm Stick'm
Play SciGirls games to learn more about science and the world around you! A collection of games featuring science and engineering topics.
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Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: True Stories
Martha's True Stories consists of non-fiction texts with accompanying video, glossary, and quiz centered on four STEM topics: science - the environment; technology - communication, transportation & tools; engineering - inventions;...
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Ion Future: The Stem Career Exploration Game
A game-based learning environment of free online games that encourages students to explore STEM careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Stem Transitions
Integrated curriculum projects for use in math, science, and technical courses can be found on this website. Each project includes teaching materials, instructional components, and components for implementation, equipment list,...
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Kids Ahead: Articles
Explore current new articles focusing on STEM topics. Learn about 3D printing, supermoon, earthquakes, and much more.
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Sprk: Orb Basic Lesson 2 [Pdf]
Learners will use Sphero to explore the computer science concepts of variables and conditionals (ifstatements). They will use OrbBasic, which is a text-based programming language for the Sphero. They will write a simple program that...
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Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 2 [Pdf]
Learners will use the Sphero robotic ball to draw polygons and learn the relationship between heading angles and the number of sides in a polygon where all sides are equal. They will also learn how to setthe colors of the lights inside...
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Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 3 Mean, Median, & Mode: Teacher Guide [Pdf]
Students will use Sphero to conduct an experiment. They will identify how long they need Sphero to move at 10% speed to reach and knock over a target object (such as a whiteboard marker). Using this information, they will then calculate...
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Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 4 Percentages: Teacher Guide [Pdf]
Students will use Sphero to explore percentages using speed and color. The speed experiments are quantitative and the color experiments are qualitative. They will program the Sphero to move at 100% speed for a particular amount of time,...
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Sprk: Orb Basic Lesson 3 [Pdf]
Students will use Sphero to explore the computer science concepts of reading sensors and storing data in variables. They will use OrbBasic, which is a text-based programming language for the Sphero.They will write a simple program that...
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Sprk: Sphero Chariot Stem Challenge [Pdf]
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge, there are...
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Sprk: Sphero Hydro Hypothesis Stem Challenge [Pdf]
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. The Hydro-hypothesis challenge...
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Sprk: Time, Speed, and Distance:teacher Guide [Pdf]
Learners will use Sphero to show that there is a linear relationship between time, speed, and distance. They will program Sphero to move at a particular speed for a particular amount of time, and then measure how far it has gone.They...
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Hstry: Roller Coaster Design Brief Template
Interactive site by STEM teacher Mariana Garcia-Serrato in a lesson on physics in which students design, budget for and analyze their own roller coasters.
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Sprk: Sphero Bridge Stem Challenge [Pdf]
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge students will...
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Foundation for the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
The resource offers mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Frankenstein & the Limits of Medical Research
Students use the classic story, Frankenstein, to examine what Dr. Frankenstein and his idea of science represented. The next step in the lesson involves addressing the issue of how we go about accepting and understanding scientific work.
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University of Richmond: Archimedes Initiative
The Archimedes Initiative is home to thematic videos on aspects of the inquiry cycle. With coverage of the ins and outs of science fair projects and video interviews of science fair participants who discuss their projects, discoveries,...