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This page from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources provides a number of classroom resources on topics like rocks, minerals, fossils, general geology, glaciers, earthquakes, historic geology and more. Clicking on a topic area will lead users to a webpage with resources...
This resource, from SRI International, is an on-line, standards-based, resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks. The resources are "collected from numerous sources, include student...
Published in the American Educator, this is a resource paper on the impact of spatial thinking and literacy on American K-12 education. It includes four spatial thinking tests which were used in the project talent study discussed in the article.
This archived webinar from Linda Kekelis and Jeri Countryman of Techbridge presented "practical strategies and resources that will help teachers, Girl Scout Leaders and after-school program providers to conduct outreach." The main goal of the Techbridge program is to "encourage girls in technology,...
In this activity, students will gain an "understanding of a commonly published diagram of global carbon pools and fluxes. Students create a scaled 3-D visual of carbon pools and net fluxes between pools with anthropogenic influences." Targeted at middle school through undergraduate students (grades...
"Powers of Ten", the film made by Charles and Ray Eames in 1977, takes the viewer from the core of an atom to the edge of the universe, moving 10 times further every 10 seconds. The film is about scale and how we view the universe and our place in it. Powers of Ten is an extremely valuable tool for...
This page, made available by the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), contains information – and related lesson plans – on Hands-On Optics | Practical Optics and Photonics Education Tools. "Hands-On Optics was a four-year informal science education funded by the National Science...
This activity from the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FL-ATE) Center is targeted towards middle school students, and asks them to "explore the connection between STEM and advanced manufacturing while participating in an advanced manufacturing company tour experience." A lesson plan,...
This paper from Jim Flowers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Industry and Technology at Ball State University, covers problem solving in technology education, and how it can be improved by using a Taoist philosophical approach. Flowers presents a background of both problem solving in...
Project SHINE (Shaping High-quality Integrated Nebraska Education) provides this Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) curriculum for middle school, high school and community college students. Project SHINE focuses on the creation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) professional development...
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