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Defined STEM is a web-based application designed to promote effective and relevant connections between STEM classroom content and STEM career pathways, thus providing learning opportunities for students. Defined STEM provides teachers a resource where they can access highly effective media content and related support materials. These resources and materials allow teachers to connect STEM career awareness to existing lessons and standards-based curriculum.
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Other Resources
- A School Where STEM Is King"The focus on applied information is a clue to the bigger purpose at this public school on the northern end of the Baltimore school district: to be a caldron for blending the disciplines known as STEM -- science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. -- Education Week
- "Brains of Science Connect" Webinar Seriesa monthly Webinar series that gives educators the chance to interact with today's eminent scientists, personalities, and thought-leaders and extend that experience to their students through customized, standards-based content.
- Change the Equation Just Launched! Top Business CEO's have put this great STEM resource site together.
- Connect A Million Minds
- CoolHub.IMSACollaborative Networks to Fast Forward Innovations in STEM Teaching and Learning
- Eduhounds STEM resource
- Engineering Success: Students Build Understanding
- FIRST Robotics
- Fuel our FutureNow engages students in the science of alternative fuels and energy-efficient engineering.
- How To SmileHandson STEM Activities
- Igniting and Sustaining STEM-- eSchool news
- INFOhio Science Online
- InvenTeams Grants Maximum awards: $10,000 Eligibility: high school science, mathematics and technology teachers, or teams of teachers at public and vocational schools. Deadline: April 24, 2010
- Learning.com- Making STEM come alive for elementary student
- Lincoln InteractiveThis engineering curriculum includes the expertise of leading STEM institutions including Los Alamos National Laboratory and California University of Pennsylvania.
- Maker Faire Inspires Learning and Creativity
- MIT Open Courseware Highlights for High School-The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created a new web site with free online resources that aim to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction at the high school level.
- MIT STEM Resources
- National Engineers Week Feb 14-20
- National Girls Collaborative Project
- National Robotics Challenge
- New Initiative in STEM EducationBattelle has incorporated the PTC Global Education program into its education initiatives for advancing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- New Robotic Webpage for TeachersInnovation First, Inc., has created the Webpage to serve as a resource for educators looking to introduce robotics into their STEM curriculum
- New Vernier WebsiteFocuses on Engineering, STEM Education Vernier Software & Technology has developed a Web site that includes lab activities and video demonstrations.
- Ohio STEM Learning Network
- Ohio's STEM presence
- Ohio Technology Student Association
- PBS STEM Resource Center
- PodStemic--- STEM resources for the IPOD, may be blocked by the proxy
- Project Lead the Waynot-for-profit organization created to address the likely shortage of engineers in the United States.
- Project Lead the Way Ohio
- SETDA Releases Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ReportThe State Educational Technology Directors Association released the "Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)" report, which addresses the need to provide children with an education that includes a solid foundation of rigorous STEM instruction
- Siemens Math and Science Competition(deadline October 1; $1,000-$100,000 for innovative and outstanding individual or team STEM projects)
- Siemens STEM Academy Portaloffers a plethora of lesson plans, activities, and multimedia resources aimed at helping educators engage students through interaction and discussion, presentations, and immersive study of particular STEM topics. Academy users can search these materials by grade bracket (3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and subject. The materials can be browsed and accessed at the Teacher Resources page.
- Siemens STEM Institutea week-long STEM immersion program that will enable 50 selected teachers to gather and engage with today's critical science thinkers and other peers across the nation and visit leading institutions to see real-world applications of STEM subject matters. In addition, the Institute also will include monthly professional development opportunities, support, and additional tools and resources designed to further inspire student achievement in STEM education.
- Siemens Teachers A Reserachers Siemens Teachers as Researchersis a two-week residential professional development program, all expenses paid*, in which teachers will engage in mentored research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. STARs provides middle school and high school STEM teachers the opportunity to engage with top scientists and researchers on short-term research projects about current topics of national interest that are related to ongoing research at the laboratory.
- Starting WrightPlanning Your Future in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine
- STEM Collaborative.com-- real life math projects
- STEM Projects Encourage Students to Excel
- STEM TransitionsAt its core are six Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) career clusters that have provided the context for instructional materials demonstrating the convergence of academic and technical content at the community college level.
- STEM to Steamy Blogarticle Part 1
- STEM to Steamy Blogarticle Part 2
- STEMTubestudent photos & videos for Science, Math, Engineering, Technology
- Thinkfinity STEM Page Great resources for teachers including Podcasts, Lessons and Tools to support STEM.
- VEX Robotics
LEGO Resources
Resources and Suggestions from Craig Sheldon the LEGO Trainer
General Resources
LEGO MINDSTORM
Lego Engineering (Tufts University)
Lego Engineering (Carnegie Mellon University)
NXT Classroom
nxtprograms.comWhen starting with the retail set, is a great resource for both building and programming. Start with the easy programs and move to more complex as your understanding grows. Dave Parker's commented, ready to download programs are a great way to learn how NXT-G works and gives you a working program that you can modify and experiment with.
Internet games that promote logic thinking through programming a robot
Tutorials
Forums
Blogs
Mailing Lists
Reference Books
- Educate NXT By Chris Bracken
- The LEGO Mindstorms NXT Idea Book: design, invent, and build
- Debugging Activities for the Busy Teacher by Damien Kee -- over 25 activities using the datalogging capabilities of the LEGO Mindstorms NXT system
- Classroom Activities for te Busy Teacher: NXT by Damien Kee -- A 10 week lesson plan for teaching robotics using the LEGO Mindstorms NXT system
- First LEGO League the unofficial guide by James Floyd Kelly and Jonathan Daudelin
- LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide by James Floyd Kelly
- Cambrian Intelligence the Early History of the new AI by Rodney Brooks -- a collection of academic papers
- Engineering with LEGO Bricks and ROBOLAB by Eric Lon
- Book From FLL coach