STEM Activities For Your Classroom

Urban  Community and School Gardens http://ucanr.edu/sites/UrbanAg/Community_and_School_Gardens/

Best, cheap, easy STEM? Go outside. Grow a garden.

And these folks in Nevada are in Nevada gardening! No excuses now! Plus, your student may live in a food desert, and learning to grow easy veggies could literally save lives. Just a laundry basket of potatoes would help.  

Growing Potatoes in Containershttp://containergardening.about.com/od/vegetablesandherbs/ss/ContainerPotatoes.htm

School Gardens

http://gardenfarms.net/school-gardens/ 

Check EarthSky News every day! Assign a student to report!

Moon, Saturn, Mars on March 27-28

http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-mars-before-dawn-march-28 

Classroom Activities (Science)

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/classroom_activity_resources.shtml 

http://www.usnews.com/education/technology-in-the-classroom

Engineers in the Classroom

http://www.classroomengineers.org/?ar_a=6

20 Ways Teachers Are Using Legos in the Classroom

http://www.edudemic.com/legos-in-class/ 

Classroom Math Games That Will Have Your Students Begging For More!!

http://www.priceless-teaching-strategies.com/classroom_math_games.html

8 Ordinary Things That Look Insanely Cool Under a Microscope

http://www.cracked.com/article_20386_8-ordinary-things-that-look-insanely-cool-under-microscope.html 

 

 

 

Please, please, teacher, let us do something cool we can post on Instagram!

STEM Activities For Your Classroom

Urban  Community and School Gardens http://ucanr.edu/sites/UrbanAg/Community_and_School_Gardens/

Best cheap easy STEM? Go outside. Grow a garden.

And these folks in Nevada are in Nevada gardening! No excuses now! Plus, your student may live in a food desert, and learning to grow easy veggies could literally save lives. Just a laundry basket of potatoes would help.  Growing Potatoes in Containershttp://containergardening.about.com/od/vegetablesandherbs/ss/ContainerPotatoes.htm

School Gardens

http://gardenfarms.net/school-gardens/ 

Check EarthSky News every day! Assign a student to report!

Moon, Saturn, Mars on March 27-28

http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-mars-before-dawn-march-28 

Classroom Activities (Science)

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/classroom_activity_resources.shtml 

http://www.usnews.com/education/technology-in-the-classroom

Engineers in the Classroom

http://www.classroomengineers.org/?ar_a=6

20 Ways Teachers Are Using Legos in the Classroom

http://www.edudemic.com/legos-in-class/ 

Classroom Math Games That Will Have Your Students Begging For More!!

http://www.priceless-teaching-strategies.com/classroom_math_games.html

8 Ordinary Things That Look Insanely Cool Under a Microscope

http://www.cracked.com/article_20386_8-ordinary-things-that-look-insanely-cool-under-microscope.html 

 

 

 

Please, please, teacher, let us do something cool we can post on Instagram!

STEM Activities For Your Classroom

Urban  Community and School Gardens  http://ucanr.edu/sites/UrbanAg/Community_and_School_Gardens/

Best cheap easy STEM? Go outside. Grow a garden.

And these folks in Nevada are in Nevada gardening! No excuses now! Plus, your student may live in a food desert, and learning to grow easy veggies could literally save lives. Just a laundry basket of potatoes would help.  Growing Potatoes in Containers http://containergardening.about.com/od/vegetablesandherbs/ss/ContainerPotatoes.htm

School Gardens

http://gardenfarms.net/school-gardens/ 

Check EarthSky News every day! Assign a student to report!

Moon, Saturn, Mars on March 27-28

http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-mars-before-dawn-march-28 

Classroom Activities (Science)

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/classroom_activity_resources.shtml 

http://www.usnews.com/education/technology-in-the-classroom

Engineers in the Classroom

http://www.classroomengineers.org/?ar_a=6

20 Ways Teachers Are Using Legos in the Classroom

http://www.edudemic.com/legos-in-class/ 

Classroom Math Games That Will Have Your Students Begging For More!!

http://www.priceless-teaching-strategies.com/classroom_math_games.html

8 Ordinary Things That Look Insanely Cool Under a Microscope

http://www.cracked.com/article_20386_8-ordinary-things-that-look-insanely-cool-under-microscope.html 

 

 

 

 

Please, please, teacher, let us    do something cool we can post on Instagram!

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 10/29/13

1. Two Case Studies: How Connected Educators Can Transform Schools

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/10/two-case-studies-how-connected-educators-can-transform-schools/ 

2.  Investigations
Investigations: A Mathematical Cornucopia of Pumpkinshttp://www.nctm.org/publications/article.aspx?id=22001

3. How We Can Actually Create Lifelong Learners

http://www.edudemic.com/lifelong-learners/ 

4. Should Teachers Share Online?

http://www.edudemic.com/should-teachers-share/ 

5. Mimi Ito on Learning in Social Media Spaces (Big Thinkers Series)

http://www.edutopia.org/mimi-ito-social-media-learning-video?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=video-mimiito-quote-playbutton 

6. FlexPod Cloud Service Helps Ohio Schools Do More with Less

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/10/flexpod-cloud-service-helps-ohio-schools-do-more-less?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdTechK12+%28EdTech+Magazine%3A+Focus+on+K-12%29&

utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

7. Unlock A New Level Of Critical Thinking With Citelighter’s New ‘Cognitive Prints’

http://www.edudemic.com/citelighter-cognitive-prints/ 

 

 

 

 

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 10/15/13

1. K-12 schools are missing out on this edtech trend

http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/11/k-12-schools-are-missing-out-on-this-edtech-trend/ 

2. Things To Do with a Hundred Chart #29 

http://letsplaymath.net/2013/10/14/things-to-do-with-a-hundred-chart-29/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LetsPlayMath+%28Let%27s+play+math!%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

Kodable http://www.surfscore.com/

3. Creating Media Connects Kids to Global Events

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/01/creating-media-connects-kids-to-global-events/ 

4. 36 Core Teacher Apps For Inquiry Learning With iPads

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/36-core-teacher-apps-for-inquiry-learning-with-ipads/ 

5.  Toontastic Jr. Shrek Movie Maker

http://classtechtips.com/2013/10/14/toontastic-jr-shrek-movie-maker/ 

6. Animated Math Lessons for Kids 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/10/animated-math-lessons-for-kids.html#.Ulyl1BDZjIY 

7. 5 Reasons to Teach Kids to Code

http://edtechideas.com/2013/10/15/5-reasons-to-teach-kids-to-code/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techhappy+%28Ed+Tech+Ideas%29 

 

 

 

 

Best Articles for Educators Week of 4/14/13

1. What It Also Means to Raise an Autistic Child 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brenda-rothman/what-it-also-means-to-raise-an-autistic-child_b_3033574.html 

2. A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/health/more-diagnoses-of-hyperactivity-causing-concern.html?_r=2& 

3. How to Teach Math as a Social Activity

http://www.edutopia.org/math-social-activity-cooperative-learning-video 

4. California 10th Graders Improve Their Writing Skills—Through an Interactive Fiction Game

http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/04/k-12/kids-game-class-teacher-approves-jason-sellerss-students-build-interaction-fiction-games-and-improve-their-writing-skills/ 

5. To Truly Improve Learning, Schools Should Stop Trying So Hard

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/to-truly-improve-learning-schools-should-stop-trying-so-hard/ 

6. Forget test prep - students need to learn tenacity, self-control

http://articles.philly.com/2013-04-11/news/38437392_1_standardized-tests-marjorie-neff-paul-tough 

7. A Warning to Young People: Don't Become a Teacher 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-turner/a-warning-to-young-people_b_3033304.html?utm_hp_ref=tw