Teacher Resources
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Tools
Aurasma
Create fun, "augmented reality" interactive content on your iPhones, iPads and high-powered Android devices using Aurasma. Aurasma uses advanced image and pattern recognition to blend the real-world with rich content such as videos and animations called "Auras".
Chirp
Chirp is an incredible new way to share information - using sound. Chirp sings information from one iPhone to another.
Class Dojo
Helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators.
Classroom Timer
A Simple timer, designed for teachers or anyone else who needs to set timed tasks for groups of children in a classroom or similar environment. Displays an alarm clock graphic that counts down time.
Coach's Eye
Analyze video on your computer, iPhone or iPad with Coach's Eye. Coach's Eye allows you to zoom, slow-motion and draw on videos to highlight small details to your students.
Decide Now!
An app for iPhone and iPad that allows students to "spin the wheel" and the app will choose from a variety of categories that you input into the app. It can be used to add a fun element to quizzing students, by allowing them to "spin the wheel" and then answer questions on the category the wheel lands on.
Edmodo
Provides teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications.
EduCreations
Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. Students and colleagues can replay your lessons in any web browser, or from within our app on their iPads.
Evernote
Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small using your computer, phone, tablet and the web.
Game Show Soundboard
An app for iPhone and iPad that produces game show sounds. This app can make quizzing students fun, allowing you to reward correct answers with a "DING DING DING!" sound.
Google Tools
Google offers a wide range of free tools that educators can use to enhance their teachings including Google Maps, Earth, Book Search, SketchUp, etc.
GreenScreen Movie Fx
Easily create a movie with your students using your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. GreenScreen Movie FX puts the power of a Hollywood special effects studio in your pocket (well, almost!).
Guided Access
Guided Access helps students with disabilities such as autism remain on task and focused on content while using an iOS device, such as an iPad. It allows a parent, teacher, or administrator to limit an iOS device to one app by disabling the Home button, as well as restrict touch input on certain areas of the screen.
iBanner HD for iPad
iBanner HD produces a scrolling marquee allowing you to input data and deliver fun messages to your students on your iPad.
iCab Mobile
iCab Mobile is a web browser for the iPhone®, iPod Touch® and the iPad®. It provides many features which makes surfing in the web much easier.
iMovie
iMovie makes it easy to turn your home videos into your all-time favorite films. You can also store and organize your videos by event, similar to photo albums.
LiveMinutes
Free collaborative meeting service focused on Document Sharing. When sharing, everyone can videochat, look at the same slide at the same time and annotate documents in real time.
MIT+K12
K12 educators and MIT partner to make educational movies. Educators can make requests and search for a variety of STEM-related videos.
MIT Blossoms
Video lessons enrich students' learning experiences in high school classrooms from Brooklyn to Beirut to Bangalore. The Video Library contains over 50 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers as streaming video and Internet downloads and as DVDs and videotapes.
Mosa Mack: Science Detective
Mosa Mack: Science Detective is a series of short animated science mysteries that redefines the image of a scientist. In each episode, Mosa uses critical thinking skills to solve each mystery and shows students that scientific thinking is a part of their everyday lives.
NearPod
This free app for iOS devices allow teachers to create digital presentations and digitally interact with their students in real time.
PickMe!Buzzer
This app allows you and your students to use your iOS devices to operate as buzzers. Your students can use their iPhone or iPad as a remote to "buzz in" to answer questions, similar to Jeopardy.
Pulse of the Planet
Each weekday, this radio series provides listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide, blending interviews with extraordinary natural sound.
Puppet Pals HD
Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time on your iPad! Simply pick out your puppet actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later.
Socrative
Socrative allows teachers to digitally play games and ask questions to their students in real time using tablets, smart phones and laptops. The teacher controls the flow of a variety of questions and games available on Socrative.
SonicPics
Create and record custom photo slideshows on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and share them with your students.
Strip Designer
With Strip Designer you can create your own personal comic strip right on your iPhone or iPad.
Symbaloo
A unique visual bookmarking tool that helps users keep their favorite links in order.
TeacherKit
An app for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch, TeacherKit is a personal organizer for the teacher. It enables the teacher to organize classes, and students. It's simple and intuitive interface enables teachers to track the attendance, grades and behavior of students.
Too Noisy
An app for iPhone and iPad that is a noise level meter built for the classroom. The app has been designed to assist a teacher to keep control of general noise levels in a classroom using a visual stimulus.
Wikispaces
Wikispaces makes managing class a breeze, with tools to handle day-to-day work and features to tackle the special activities. Educators can get free, private, secure space for their class.
Wolfram Alpha
Introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers-not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.
Wordle
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Tool used for generating "word clouds" which give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Educators can tweak their clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes for their classroom.
Sites & Initiatives
Caine's Arcade
Caine's Arcade is a short film about a 9 year old boy's cardboard arcade, located in his dad's used auto parts store in East LA. An amazing use of engineering and imagination!
C-SPAN
Enhances the teaching of social studies through C-SPAN's primary source programming and websites.
The Economic Rebound: It Isn't What You Think
An article from Wired magazine describing the emergence of a new sector of "smart" jobs, focusing on computer engineering.
Google Earth Blog
Google Earth Blog is dedicated to sharing the best news, interesting sights, technology, and happenings for Google Earth.
International Technology and Engineering Educators Association Teacher Resources
Professional organization for technology, innovation, design and engineering educators; features a wide range of resources and links to teacher resources sites.
Minnesota STEM Initiative
Statewide initiative that provides resources, links, interactives and more to encourage students to explore STEM topics and teachers to inspire students.
mn-stem.com
An education website to help students discovery firsthand how their participation in certain STEM coursework can lead directly to exciting and rewarding careers.
National Center for the Advancement of STEM Education
Provides resources to schools, teachers and students to increase the interest and engagement of young people in STEM.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a public voice of mathematics education, supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students through vision, leadership, professional development, and research
National Engineers Week 2013
Engineers Week celebrates the positive contributions engineers make to society and is a catalyst for outreach across the country to kids and adults alike.
National Math and Science Initiative: Designing for Scale through Replication of Existing Programs (NMSI)
Identifies proven projects related to math and science with the potential for wide-spread success, particularly those focused on producing strong math and science teachers, strengthening existing teachers' skills, and expanding the pipeline of STEM capable students.
National Science Digital Library
NSDL is the National Science Foundation's online library of resources and collections for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research.
National Science Foundation Classroom Resources
A diverse collection of lessons and web resources for classroom teachers, students, and families from the National Science Digital Library.
National Science Foundation Engineering Resources
Lessons and web resources aimed at classroom teachers, students and families to promote interest in engineering.
National Science Teachers Associate (NSTA)
Professional organization committed to science education and promoting excellence and innovation in science
teaching with thousands of products and services available to science teachers nationwide.
National Stem Foundation
The National Stem Foundation is committed to promoting STEM education by serving educational institutions and organizations.
Our Future Demands - STEM
An article by Microsoft promoting the education of STEM. The article illustrates that, over the next decade, there will be a signi?cant shortage of quali?ed college graduates to ?ll STEM careers in the United States.
Pennsylvania STEM Initiative
Statewide effort designed to establish a network of partners and programs that support the development and deployment of STEM education and workforce development.
School Science and Mathematics Association (SSMA)
An inclusive professional community of researchers and teachers who promote research, scholarship, and practice that improves school science and mathematics and advances the integration of science and mathematics
Science Netlinks
Providing a wealth of resources for k-12 science educators, Science NetLinks of the American Association for the Advancement of Science provides a meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Coalition
The STEM Education Coalition works aggressively to raise awareness in Congress, the Administration, and other organizations about the critical role that STEM education plays in enabling the U.S. to remain the economic and technological leader of the global marketplace of the 21st century.
ScreenCastle
A free site that allows you to create and save screencasts to use in your class. A screencast is a digital recording of a computer screen.
Society for Science & the Public: Student and Teacher Program Index
With more than 300 programs listed, this site offers a comprehensive catalog of science, mathematics and engineering enrichment programs for pre-college students and teachers.
STEM and Our Planet
The environment is a compelling context for teaching and engaging our students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
STEM Connect
Real-world STEM curriculum and career development resources from Discovery Education highlighting the connections among science, technology, engineering and math.
Stemconnector.org
With more than 5000 STEM stakeholders' profiles, its purpose is to map the STEM Education activity of organizations and all states.
The STEM Dilemma
Promoting STEM subjects is a national priority to keep America competitive in the 21st century. This infographic displays the dilemma.
STEM Education on Facebook
An online Facebook community for the sharing of STEM school resources for educators, parents, and students.
STEM for ALL
A project dedicated to expanding the integration of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) content into out-of-school time programs across the country.
Smithsonian
Serves as a laboratory to create models and methods of innovative informal education and link them to the formal education system.
Teacher Center - STEM Connect
STEM Connect is the captivating real-world STEM curriculum and career development resource from Discovery Education.
Teachers First
Serves as a laboratory to create models and methods of innovative informal education and link them to the formal education system.
Thinkfinity
Offers lesson plans, activities and interactives to help educators build a cross-curricular classroom.
U.S. EPA Educational Resources for Teachers and Students
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Collection of information, resources and publications, and links to awards, grants, workshops, conferences and other programs.
Organizations & Associations
Information Society for the Information Age
Society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information.
International Technology and Engineering Educators Association
Professional organization for technology, innovation, design, and engineering educators. Mission is to promote technological literacy for all by supporting the teaching of technology and engineering and promoting the professionalism of those engaged in these pursuits
National Science Foundation
Independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense."
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Public voice of mathematics education supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students through vision, leadership, professional development and research.
National Science Teachers Association
Member-driven organization that publishes books and journals for science teachers from kindergarten through college. Additionally, NSTA provides ways for science teachers to connect with one another, while informing Congress and the public on vital questions affecting science literacy and a well-educated workforce
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
University consortium with a strategic partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), that brings together university faculty and students to collaborate on major scientific initiatives that help keep America on the leading edge of science and technology.
Siemens Foundation
The Siemens Foundation provides more than $7 million annually in support of educational initiatives in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math in the United States. Additionally, Siemens supports outstanding students and recognizes the teachers and schools that inspire their excellence. The Foundation helps nurture tomorrow's scientists and engineers. The Foundation's mission is based on the culture of innovation, research and educational support that is the hallmark of Siemens' U.S. companies and its parent company, Siemens AG.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
The Museum is dedicated to inspiring curiosity, discovery, and learning about the natural world through its unparalleled research, collections, exhibitions, and education outreach programs.
STEM Ed
STEM Ed is the STEM Education Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It was founded in 1995; its predecessors began in 1986 to work to improve STEM education in K12 and higher education.
The College Board
A not-for-profit membership organization committed to excellence and equity in education. Our mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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An agency that houses a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. Since its inception, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.
