STEM+Resources

What is STEM?
STEM education grows out of the idea that the boundaries between science, technology, engineering, and math are permeable. Moreover, it asserts that its four disciplines are interdependent. By endeavoring to blend science, technology, engineering, and math in its approach, STEM education seeks to create 21st century learning opportunities and skill development for students.

Why STEM?
Generally, STEM education efforts seek to increase student curiosity in and engagement with science, technology, engineering, and math. It is hoped that STEM initiatives will encourage more students to study, and eventually secure jobs in, STEM-related fields. //-// from //Discovery Communications//

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[|Discovery Education STEM Connect] "In support of STEM initiatives, Discovery Education presents a unique collection of career video clips, learning activities, and related content for grades K-12. Organized by discipline, the resources found here highlight the connections among science, technology, engineering, and math. STEM Connect is designed to help educators take their first steps toward blending STEM disciplines in their instructional approach."

SETDA State Educational Technology Directors Association - Contains "Action Plan for Education," tools, reports, research and more.

[|Science Worx] "A local mentoring program and online resource network for science teachers. The program focuses on instilling an understanding of science’s role in human health and medicine, and is designed to inspire the next generation of scientists and support science teachers’ needs both in and outside the classroom."

[|Scitable] "Scitable is a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group."

[|CSEdWeek] "CSEdWeek 2011, December 4 to 10, 2011, is a highly distributed celebration of the impact of computing and the need for computer science education." Contains great sources for students, educators, parents and community.

[|STEMresources.com] Sponsered by the Tennessee Department of Education, this site offers "quick and easy access to standards-based instructional tools, quality curriculum materials, and the latest Internet materials."

[|STEM Education Resource Center] The PBS Teacher's STEM Education Resource Center offers selected STEM education resources. The database contains "nearly 4,000 science, technology, engineering and math resources for grades preK-12."

[|Learn.Genetics] "Learn.Genetics delivers educational materials on genetics, bioscience and health topics. They are designed to be used by students, teachers and members of the pbulic." Sponsored by the University of Utah.

[|Teach.Genetics] Also sponsored by the University of Utah, "Teach.Genetics provides resources for K-12 teachers, higher education faculty, and public educators. These include PDF-based Print-and-Go ™ activities, unit plans and other supporting resources. The materials are designed to support and extend the materials on Learn.Genetics."

[|The Biology Project] This is an "interactive online resource for learning biology."

[|New York Science Teacher] Teacher-created science labs, demonstrations, lesson plans, activities, worksheets, notes, review material and other educational related information.

[|NASA Online] Award-winning science, math and technology videos and more.

[|Newton's Apple] Streaming video, activity guides and experiments for Science.

[|National Science Digital Library] Online portal for education and research on learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathmatics.

[|eGFI] "Here you will find a variety of tools to boost your students' math and science skills, enliven the classroom with engineering projects, expand your own professional horizons and stay informed."

[|teAchnology] Lesson plans, rubrics, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets and other teacher resources for teaching with technology.

[|Teachers' Domain] This is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. It contains thousands of media resources, support materials and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.

[|NASA for Educators]

"NASA's Education Materials Finder will help teachers locate resources that can be used in the classroom. Users may search by keywords, grade level, product type and subject. With hundreds of publications and Web sites indexed, the finder is the best way to locate NASA educational resources."

[|Education World] This resource includes lesson plans, articles written by education experts, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom and much more.

[|Science Notebooks] "Science notebooks can be used to help students develop, practice, and refine their science understanding, while also enhancing reading, writing, mathematics and communications. On this site you will find examples of student work from science notebooks - many from common used commercially developed science instructional materials, information to support the use of science notebooks, and strategies to use notebooks to integrate reading, writing, mathematics, and science."

[|TryEngineering] "TryEngineering offers a variety of lesson plans that align with education standards to allow teachers and students to apply engineering principles in the classroom."

[|Science Net Links] "Science NetLinks is a premier K-12 science education resource produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Science NetLinks, you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and all of it is free!"

[|Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM] "The Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM (TIES) designs and engineers statewide systems of innovative STEM education networks focused on project-based learning in the disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Partnering with communities, industry, business, K-12 and higher education, TIES creates a network-based infrastructure that connects innovative STEM schools where students excel and communities prosper."

[|STEM Equity Pipeline] STEM resources provided by National Alliance for partnerships in Equity Education Foundation.

The Math Archives This site provides links to various web resources on Mathematics. They are organized by topic.

A+ Click Math Practice "A+ Click helps students become problem solvers. No fees, no ads, no calculators, and no sign in. The website features a graduated set of over 4000 challenging problems for students in grades one through twelve, starting from the very simple to the extremely difficult. The questions are based on the Common Core Standards in Math and go beyond by adding hundreds of practical problems and brainteasers."

The Math Forum A web resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication. Provides a wealth of problems and puzzles, online mentoring, research, team problem solving, collaborations and professional development.

Professor Freedman's Math Help "This site provides information about basic math, algebra, study skills, math anxiety and learning styles. This site provides links for students and teachers to information about learning styles, study skills tips, and ways to reduce math anxiety and gives the students access to tutorials, algebra assignments, math videos, and a forum for discussing with the professor a variety of math topics."