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Administered by the Library of Michigan in partnership with Michigan's libraries of all types, the Michigan eLibrary (mel.org) will provide all Michigan residents with free access to online full-text articles, full-text books, digital images, and other valuable research information at any time via the Internet.
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A K-12 resource for locating non-fiction articles for students K-12. When you choose a grade level article, this same article can be differentiated by reading level (Lexile) and even converted to Spanish with a few simple clicks!
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Is a K-12 on-line, standards based, continually updated resource bank of science performance tasks indexed to the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other frameworks.
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Here you will find a variety of K-12 tools to boost your students’ math and science skills, enliven the classroom with engineering projects, expand your own professional horizons and stay informed.
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Bozeman Science - Paul Andersen has created hundreds of YouTube science tutorials that have been viewed millions of times by students around the world. Specialties include the Next Generation Science Standards, educational technology, the flipped classroom, and effective classroom design.
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The most complete interactive simulation-based Earth Science curriculum for K-12 and College. Layered Earth uses amazing, engaging 3-D simulations and visualizations to teach a complete range of topics in Geology, Meteorology, Climate and Geography
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A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating innovative educational technology for STEM learning. Their work brings technology's promise into reality for education worldwide. This website also provides resources for designing investigations for 3D learning.
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Scientific phenomena are occurrences in the natural or human-made world that cause one to wonder and ask questions. They do not have to be phenomenal, but should be engaging to students and make them wonder and ask questions or identify a problem to be solved. The key reason for identifying possible phenomenon is to ensure that the learning of science concepts are anchored around something that will engage students (make them wonder and ask questions), whereby they seek accurate, evidence-based explanations for how and why things occur by using the Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas of the Next Generation Science Standards.
This website has been developed in response to a need to help teachers identify grade level appropriate phenomena that could be incorporated into science instruction. #ProjectPhenomena is a collaboration of teacher, industry, university, and community organization leaders who want to help students engage in relevant, engaging, and meaningful phenomena as part of science process. |
The ambitious teacher is someone who “works with students’ ideas” over time. What would you experience in classrooms where ambitious teaching was the focus? You would see and hear:
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CK-12 organizes its educational content into roughly 5000 concepts (e.g., "Two digit multiplication" or "Photosynthesis" or "Newton’s law"). CK-12 believes that these “Byte-Sized” units of content and modalities of learning (as well as varied styles of learning). These concepts are further organized into "Learning Paths."
Ck-12 content is available in a number of formats, which the organization describes as multiple “modalities of the concept.” Each modality is defined as “a different way to learn or explore” a specific concept and its relationship to other concepts. Examples include, but are not limited to:
The standards-based resources are designed to engage K-5 learners in at-home science with low materials needs. Leveraging the Anchoring Phenomenon Routine (borrowed from nextgenstorylines), and integrating KLEWS charts, the MMSLN and MSTA materials include synchronous and asynchronous learning and lead to students’ at-home investigations.
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AACT is a K-12 community of passionate teachers of chemistry who share strategies, find support, ask questions, and overcome everyday classroom challenges. Membership provides you with an easy way to find innovative and effective ideas to implement into your classroom, and provides you with opportunities to learn from other experienced teachers and professionals.
The Argumentation Toolkit website includes videos and other resources to support teachers in successfully integrating argumentation into science lessons. Scientific argumentation is a social process in which students build, question and critique claims using evidence about the natural world. This is a key practice both in the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy. The resources are developed around 4 elements of scientific argumentation that students need extra support around: 1) Evidence, 2) Reasoning, 3) Student Interaction, and 4) Competing Claims.
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Through inclusive design approaches, PhET's is creating accessible interactive simulations that allow students to experience science and mathematical practices in new ways. The PhET's platform is compatible with both iPads and Chromebooks. PhET simulations are based on research on how students learn and student simulation interviews. The simulations are built in the areas of Physics, Biology, Chemistry Earth Science and Math to meet the needs of Elementary students up to students at the University level!
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Shape of Life offers classroom videos depicting the evolution of the animal kingdom on planet earth. Students and educators from all over the world explore animal adaptation, animations, and behaviors along with the amazing scientists who bring their stories to life. We also offer a rich selection of NGSS materials including lesson plans, readings, illustrations and activities that inspire a deeper dive into the phyla that explain so much of our existence. Shape of Life content is FREE to students and educators all over the world.
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The skill of question asking is far too rarely deliberately taught in school. We have worked with and learned from educators to develop a teaching strategy that provides a simple yet powerful way to teach students how to formulate, work with, and use their own questions. To access this resource, a free account must be created.
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Explore a wealth of information about the Earth and Space Sciences. Windows to the Universe, a project of the National Earth Science Teachers Association, is sponsored in part is sponsored in part through grants from federal agencies (NASA and NOAA), and partnerships with affiliated organizations, including the American Geophysical Union, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Earth System Information Partnership, the American Meteorological Society, the National Center for Science Education, and TERC. The American Geophysical Union and the American Geosciences Institute are Windows to the Universe Founding Partners. NESTA welcomes new Institutional Affiliates in support of our ongoing programs, as well as collaborations on new projects.
WGVU and PBS have developed thousands of free teaching resources aligned to state and national standards. These resources are meant to inspire your students by investigating natural phenomena using scientific practices through videos, lesson plans and interactive tools.
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Population Education, a program of Population Connection, is the only national program with a strong emphasis on curriculum and professional development for 6-12 educators that focuses on human population issues. Since 1975, the program has developed age-appropriate curricula to complement students’ science and social science instruction about human population trends and their impacts on natural resources, environmental quality and human well-being. With an emphasis on hands-on learning and balanced discussion of different viewpoints, our program has earned a reputation for educational excellence. All Population Education curriculum materials are classroom-tested, rigorously evaluated and frequently updated to be leaders in their content and approach. They are interdisciplinary, well-suited for a cooperative learning environment and classroom-ready. All of the materials are matched to current national and state academic standards and frameworks.
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Welcome to Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) funded by the National Science Foundation. Through ADBC, data and images for millions of biological specimens are being made available in electronic format for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public.
Education and Outreach are critical components of iDigBio’s overall mission to highlight the importance of biodiversity collections and digitization efforts. E&O efforts include engaging the public through informational resources, compelling deliverables and opportunities to participate. In addition, iDigBio is with its partners in developing biodiversity and digitization-related educational resources for K-12, fostering public participation activities for life-long learners, and providing links to educational resources and activities. BiteScis are geared toward the high school Biology, Chemistry and Physical Science/Physics. Every BiteScis lesson has two components: A “Bite” and an activity. The Bite is a brief (1–3 page) write-up that makes areas of active science research accessible to a student audience. Bites are available separated from a lesson plan so they can be used in a variety of ways (science and technical texts, anyone?). As parts of our lesson plans, the Bites may be integrated into an activity or serve as a launching pad. The activities themselves vary from a traditional “wet lab” to an old-fashioned minds-on Q&A with everything in between. Some activities require computers or specialized equipment, but many don’t, and those that do often come with modification suggestions to make them workable in any setting. Oh! And one last thing–all BiteScis lessons come with extensive educator documents with background, standards alignments, learning objectives, teaching tips, and of course, the answers.
BiteScis lessons are..
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Genetics concepts are notoriously hard to learn and teach. Traditional genetics experiments are difficult to do in schools. To demonstrate real-world genetics in action, teachers must have the time and space to maintain or grow stocks of model organisms (e.g., fruit flies or Fast Plants). Breeding experiments with these specimens can take weeks or more and may not result in usable data. Due to time and resource limitations, multi-generational experiments, which are the hallmark of genetic science, are nearly impossible to complete. Geniverse supports experimentation, critical thinking, and writing about genetics. Geniverse is designed for teachers to play an active role in the classroom by guiding students to understand and make connections to real-world genetics.
A captivating narrative creates an authentic context for students to dive into genetics. Students use a virtual model species (drakes) to explore the fundamental mechanisms of heredity and genetic diseases and then get a taste of careers in genetics. While following a courageous protagonist on a quest to heal a beloved dragon, students generate their own experimental data as they complete Geniverse challenges. They “publish” their findings using the scientific practice of argumentation, supporting their claims with evidence and reasoning, first in writing, and then in class discussions. |