Biological Curriculum Expert suggests more coordinated strategy for precollege education in science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM).
What is STEM Education?
Posted in: Biology, Counselors, Educators, STEM Education
Ed Trust Presentations
These Powerpoint presentations address achievement issues of what we need to be doing better.
Posted in: Achievement, Counselors, Educators
Elementary Career Awareness Activities
Oregon’s Partnership for Occup and Career Information offers these free materials useful with elementary students.v
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A Vision of K-12 Students Today
This 4 min video encourages educators to use technology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8&feature=related
Connect a Million Minds to After-School Opportunities
Connect a Million Minds is an excellent website devoted to helping students find after school opportunities to learn about STEM.
Posted in: after-school, Counselors, Educators, informal learning, Parents, STEM
Nerds and Geeks Video Challenges Norms
The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth is a short video about how being called and labeled geeks, nerds, and dorks is not necessarily a bad thing.
Posted in: Counselors, Educators, STEM Careers, STEM video clips, Students
Engineering Problem Solving Challenge
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenge Summit is “bringing together hundreds of leading scientists and engineers, educators, policy leaders, innovators and forward-thinking corporate executives to address society’s most pressing problems.”
Khan U Provides Free Math Tutorials
Providing world-class education to anyone, this nonprofit uses a library of user-paced exercises to teach any math topic and more. From addition to calculus, practice math skills, and get immediate feedback.
Login with a Google account ID or a Facebook account ID at the login page to start learning now.
Posted in: Counselors, Educators, Learn, Math, Online, Online Math, Students