Welcome, teachers! Here you will find a variety of tools to boost your students’ math & science skills, enliven the classroom with engineering projects, expand your professional horizons, and stay informed.
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Got any questions? Feel free to ask! Welcome, K-12 teachers! 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. Need something specific? Have any questions?
Mission: Our mission is to provide you with engaging and useful materials that you can incorporate in your classroom, use professionally, and provide for your students. Engineering: Go For It! for Teachers is part of a non-profit organization called the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Founded in 1893, ASEE is committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology.
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http://hechingerreport.org/preschool-teachers-feel-science-matters-new-research-finds/
Whether or not preschool teachers offer science lessons and activities in their classrooms depends largely on how comfortable they are in the topic, according to new research from Michigan State University. Teachers in the study “were very nervous that they were going to teach science inaccurately t...
REMINDER: Deadline November 10th - Middle school physical science, engineering, and technology teachers, located in school districts in select Northrop Grumman communities, who have at least two years of middle school teaching experience and have a strong desire to advance engineering and technology education by applying real-world applications in the classroom, can apply to become a Teacher Fellow. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170925005937/en/Northrop-Grumman-Foundation-Teachers-Academy-Kicks-Year
Applications are now being accepted for the 2017-2018 Northrop Grumman Foundation Teachers Academy.
https://www.kentreporter.com/news/stem-program-opens-young-minds-of-kents-middle-school-students/
Tomorrow’s engineers were busy Monday building and programming robotic projects in the Kentridge High School library.
Sigma Delta Omega sorority members work to engage K-12 students with STEM studies.
Space station commander Randy Bresnik beams in to Air and Space Museum to share love of science.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes tyle/kidspost/women-of-nasa-get-their-own-lego-set/2017/10/18/580a6000-b440-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.02f2d01e3080
Astronauts Sally Ride, Mae Jemison among four minifigures in new collection.
What do flying T-shirts, physics, and baseball fans have in common? Turn your STEM team loose and find out with World Series engineering design challenges in the latest @ASEE_DC @eGFI Teachers newsletter!http://conta.cc/2gk0I9O
https://www.nae.edu/teachengineering.aspx
The National Academy has announced a collaboration between LinkEngineering.org and TeachEngineering.org, a digital library with over 1550 classroom tested, standards-aligned, engineering-focused Prek-12 curricular resources.
Deadline November 1 - Through our Education & Technology Program, ARRL offers grants for radio station equipment and related software equipment and resources for classrooms in the US. The application requirements are straightforward: we look for commitment from teachers and school administration, a well conceived plan to use the resources to engage students, and a working relationship with local ham radio volunteers who will provide mentoring support for the school. http://www.arrl.org/etp-grants
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
The 2018 Educator Academy in the Amazon Rainforest is a transformational, cross-curricular professional development workshop for educators to use and learn instructional approaches and protocols while exploring one of the world’s most important natural resources - the Amazon Rainforest. http://amazonworkshops.com/educator-academy/
Transformational Professional Development Educator Academy in the Amazon K-16 Educators are you ready for a life changing adventure? Join us in the Amazon for an experience that will feed your soul, expand your professional toolkit for inquiry based science, anchor your global perspective, and chang...
Deadline: November 1 https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/acs-award-for-encouraging-disadvantaged-students-into-careers-in-the-chemical-sciences.html
American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.
Native Americans make up 1.2 percent of the overall U.S. population, yet only account for just 0.4 percent of all engineering bachelor's degrees. The University of Montana is looking to remedy that situation with the help of a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
$500 Grants for Elementary and Secondary School STEM TEACHERS! Proposals must be received by October 27, 2017. The American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Systems Technical Committee and Space Transportation Technical Committee are once again offering $500 grants to augment funding for procuring materials and supplies that enhance STEM education. Download the flyer with details from https://info.aiaa.org/tac/SMG/SSTC/Lists/Announcements/DispForm.aspx?ID=4&Source=https://info.aiaa.org/tac/SMG/SSTC/default.aspx?_ga=2.254619912.1694799909.1507648926-643646708.1507648926
Teacher Jeffrey Crapper and his students will present at a STEM conference in Florida. Inside a storage area attached to Jeffrey Crapper's biology and health classroom at Beaverton Health and Science School, Mazin Ashfaq waits for his computer software to load. The software is for the school's motion-sensing cameras, which can track and code human movements, and provide data for projects as diverse as helping athletes recover and creating lifelike video games. http://pamplinmedia.com/bvt/15-news/374547-259087-health-and-science-school-leads-the-way
Teacher Jeffrey Crapper and his students will present at a STEM conference in Florida.
http://transmitter.ieee.org/exploring-healthcare-robotics-expert-ayanna-howard/
Ayanna Howard: IEEE Senior Member, Professor and Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Endowed Chair in Bioengineering in the School of Electrical [...]
Studying classrooms in the U Michigan College of Engineering, the researchers have already begun preliminary analysis of feedback from students and instructors. "The flexible classroom allows students to be more engaged, and it gives faculty a chance to use a wider variety of activities that include hands-on exercises, team-based learning, student group assignments and study teams, among others." https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/10/03/u-michigan-to-study-flexible-stem-classrooms.aspx
Researchers at the University of Michigan are using a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant to look into the difference between teaching and learning in traditional lecture halls and more flexible classrooms.
Students identify 15 new species of spider. “This was an undergraduate research project,” says Ingi Agnarsson, a spider expert and professor of biology at UVM who led the new study. “In naming these spiders, the students and I wanted to honor people who stood up for both human rights and warned about climate change—leaders and artists who promoted sensible approaches for a better world.” http://www.newswise.com/articles/discovery-bernie-sanders-spider
Students and a scientist at the University of Vermont have discovered 15 new species of 'smiley-faced' spiders--and named them after, among others, Barack Obama, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Bernie Sanders.
Engineers to the Rescue is the theme of our latest teachers’ newsletter on hurricanes and other natural disasters, and the role engineering plays in designing sturdier structures, shoring up coastlines, dispatching drones to assess the damage, and mobilizing technology to reduce the toll on life and property. It also includes a post on the SEAP paid summer engineering research program for high school students that ASEE administers. http://conta.cc/2yQa2u5
The researchers, led by Hope Gerde, an associate professor in Michigan State's department of human development and family studies, found the preschool teachers they surveyed reported higher enjoyment and ability for literacy than for science or math. Nearly all — 99 percent — of those surveyed said they worked with students on literacy education three or four times a week, but only 75 percent said the same about math and a paltry 42 percent about science. https://thejournal.com/articles/2017/09/28/research-preschool-teachers-are-uncomfortable-with-science-teach-it-rarely.aspx
Preschool teachers in the United States are not as comfortable with science as they are literacy, according to researchers at Michigan State University.
"The reason a lot of students drop out of engineering is they are not ready for calculus," Haj-Hariri said. "We are trying to find a fix to help the schools help the students, to find what works. We want to give them the tools they need to get them up to speed for calculus." http://www.independentmail.com/story/news/2017/09/26/clemson-south-carolina-engineering-programs/698735001/
Clemson and South Carolina are among the universities trying to figure out how to better prepare students for college engineering programs.
Twenty-three researchers from across the state are coming together to learn more about why students make it through calculus on their way to an engineering degree and why others falter and abandon engineering altogether.
It's not too late to register for today's Engineers Week webinar. Reminder: 2018 Engineers Week Planning Webinar is TODAY at noon US eastern!
Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4183399136208901633
Since 2016, 11 states eased their regulations around teacher license reciprocity, according to a new analysis of regulations from all 50 states.
Math for America, a 13-year-old nonprofit that supports New York City’s strongest math and science teachers, this month awarded 300 new, four-year fellowships to its latest class, bringing the total number of teachers in the program to over 1,000 and the dollar amount committed to over $15 million.…
Just days away... ASEE Takes Engineering Day Full Speed Ahead with NSTA at its Area Conference in Baltimore - Friday, October 6, 2017! ASEE’s Pre-College Engineering Education experts will teach how to map the engineering design process to Next Gen Science Standards, build simple electric circuits, plug elementary students into computer science, and introduce ASEE’s K-12 flagship resource Engineering, Go For It (eGFI) and much more! Register now at https://secure.nsta.org/conferences/registration/?id=2017BAL
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LIVE IN THE BOSTON AREA? We invite college and high school students, parents, pre-health advisors, school administrations, and others. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn first-hand about the journey to become a future physician or scientist. Watch this website for more information as it becomes available. https://students-residents.aamc.org/event/2017-aamc-minority-student-medical-career-fair/
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A Garden City Middle School student who researched a way to make solar energy more cost-effective is among 30 finalists in the elite Broadcom MASTERS
New York's Bridge to Education in Advanced Mathematics looks for kids who want to fall in love with math--but are stuck in schools which don't help them do it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardhusock/2017/09/19/beam-me-up-to-a-science-and-math-career/#411e9ccc611b
New York's Bridge to Education in Advanced Mathematics looks for kids who want to fall in love with math--but are stuck in schools which don't help them do it.
Teacher grants are available for all core curriculum subjects in El Dorado public schools. Proposals are judged anonymously by a team from the School of Education at Southern Arkansas University. http://www.magnoliareporter.com/education/public_private_schools/article_e960588c-9cff-11e7-9e2a-6339422774dd.html
EL DORADO – The El Dorado Education Foundation (EDEF) Board of Directors has approved eight EDEF teacher grants for the fall 2017 semester.
http://ksenam.com/um-grant-to-boost-native-american-stem-education/
MISSOULA – The University of Montana has been awarded a two-year $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a pilot
Using everything from coffee filters to 3-D printers, students get creative in the classroom.
Charles City teachers receive $2K for innovative teaching program. Applications for the 2018 Voya Unsung Heroes awards will be accepted until April 30, 2018, through www.unsunghereos.com. http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/charles-city-teachers-receive-k-for-innovative-teaching-program/article_499d0252-13f7-5d05-8fc3-30e9324b4bd9.html
Students can apply online at http://bit.ly/AiCHSAward no later than 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time (HST) on November 6, 2017. The NCWIT Award for AiC honors women in grades 9 through 12 who are active and interested in computing and technology, and encourages them to pursue their passions. http://mailchi.mp/ncwit/ncwit-aspirations-in-computing?e=ccbe4d160f
The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC) honors women in grades 9 through 12 who are active and interested in computing and technology, and encourages them to pursue their passions. Award for AiC recipients are chosen for their demonstrated interest and achievements in computing, proven le...
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