Gearing Up for the Hour of Code

 

The Hour of Code  and Computer Science week starts December 5.  If you would like some resources click here to read the article or listen to the podcast.

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Teach Your Students To Be Cyber Savvy

Do you want to teach your students to be cyber savvy?  If so click here. 

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Hunter Hobson Shares 15 Scholarships For Students Who Are Interested In STEM Careers

 

If your students are interested in a STEM career here are some scholarship opportunities they might want to consider.  To see the article click here.

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The Smithsonian Learning Lab

 

 The Smithsonian Learning Lab is a free, platform with millions of vetted digital resources and collections. You can search resources by type or search collections by topic.  According to their website "Teach effectively by creating your own interactive learning experiences-or adopt exemplars made by teachers and Smithsonian experts."  To see the website click here.

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Data Science

If you are teaching Data Science next year and need some resources, here are a couple to get you going.  Educators have access to a variety of resources to make it easier and less time-consuming to bring data science to the classroom. One impactful resource is the Data Science 4 Everyone (DS4E) by the University of Chicago.

ASU Crash Course Data Literacy offers a 15-video series for educators and students to learn about data literacy. It helps students to build their skills while promoting more student independence in learning as they work through and learn the basics and continue all the way to advanced concepts and interpreting data. 

This is the last day of the school year here in Ontario so I will post again in August.  I might post from time to time but not full time until August.  Enjoy your summer.

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20 STEAM Websites for Students

 

If you are looking for some Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts or Mathematics websites for your students take a look at this article.  

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Make Your Own Wordle Style Games

 

Richard Byrne always has some great tech  articles.  In this article he has a video that shows how you or your students could make Wordle style games.  Might be great for a vocabulary list for Science or maybe in your Spanish class.  To see the article click here.

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Free Comic Strip Makers For Students

 

There a million different ways to have students at all levels use a digital comic strip in your class, no matter what you are teaching.  No, I can't use it in my physed class.  Yes do you teach health?  Science, what did one cell say to another during Mitosis?  Let your kids figure out the ending.  Math, okay that might be tough but I am sure someone smarter than me could figure it out. These would be great in ESL or ELL.  Maybe as a final summative evaluation.  The sky is the limit.  Here are a couple free comic strip makers.  To read the article click here.

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Animal shelter volunteers improve math, science and writing

 Middle School students in NJ are working with an animal shelter and are doing better at math and science with graphing, probability of quick adoption and poll taking as well as their writing, presentation skills and multimedia.  To read the article click here.

 

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Is Premium Gas Really Different From Regular?

 

If you teach Chemistry or Science you should check out Reaction which is a youtube video page that has many videos produced in conjunction with PBS  and  ACS.  Richard Byrne pointed out a nice one about octane in gas.  With all this nonsense with dictator putin and the gas embargo about to happen with russia I though this would be a good video.  To see it click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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A Choice Board for Eight STEM Projects You Can Do With Any Newspaper

Would you like some STEM projects for your class that are inexpensive?  If so check out the article by clicking here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Incorporating Robotics Across the Curriculum

 

According to their website, "There’s a place for lessons involving robots in every grade and every subject—not just science and math but English and social studies too."  To see the article click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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The Science of the Winter Olympics

The National Science Foundation has 16 videos about The Science of the Winter Olympics.  Some topics include ski jumping, figure skating, hockey and snowboarding. To see the Youtube playlist click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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So You Wanna Be an Automotive Engineer

 

If you are teaching a Careers or Guidance type course or even a STEM course then this might be something to have the kids read and then journal about.  Living in the Windsor Detroit area the auto industry is big so this is a natural post.  To read it click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the Black Friday ads below.  

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National STEM Day

 

Today is National STEM Day in the USA and if you would like to see some good sites to peruse, Discovery Education is always a good place to start.  To read their article click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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A lesson in Indigenous traditional math

 If you would like to integrate Indigenous knowledge into your curriculum then read the following article by clicking here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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76 Videos on Food Chemisty

 

Reactions has a ton of short on topic videos of food chemistry.  To see videos like Better Pizza Through Chemistry click here,  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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Phet for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Math Simulations

 

I have previously posted about this great site that I know at least one of the teachers at my school uses.  According to their website, "Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery."  If you have never tried their site, give it a go by clicking here,  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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Explore the Application of Genomics to the World Around Us

 

From there website,  “Cracking the Code” to help educators determine where they should start to get their students’ feet wet in the field of genomics using a single class period or 45-minute lesson.  To see the website click here, hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.

How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works

 

If you would like some great summaries or explanation videos check out Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell.  I am picking the video they have done on the Immune System as it is awesome.  To see the video hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below click here.     If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.