Featured: 6-12-2013 TeachEngineering

TeachEngineering is a digital library of standards-based* engineering curricula for the use of K-12 teachers to make applied science and mathematics interesting and engaging.

The TeachEngineering collection provides educators with free access to a growing resource of multi-week units, lessons, activities, and living labs. The collection continues to grow and evolve with new additions from universities, and input from teachers who use the curricula in their classrooms.

Click on Search Curriculum or Browse Curriculum to find what you want for your classroom from the more than 900 lessons and activities currently available.

In most cases, TeachEngineering activities use ordinary materials that you can find in your classroom, school, home, grocery store or hardware store.

Use of curriculum found in the TeachEngineering collection is free to teachers using it in their classrooms. There is no fee or membership requirement (There is an optional MyTE workspace you may use to keep track of favorite lessons and activities, or to submit reviews). No special kits or materials are needed.

TeachEngineering is a collaborative project between faculty, students, and teachers associated with five universities and the American Society for Engineering Education, with NSF National Science Digital Library funding.

*Every lesson and every activity is aligned to the science and math educational standards of the state in which it was first developed and classroom tested. From that information, TeachEngineering provides rough alignment to other state and national educational standards.

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Featured: 6-11-2013 Science Museum

Visit London's Science Museum online. Find out about the museum's objects, arts projects, and medical collection, play educational games, and discover climate science, and more.

You can also check out the Science Museum blogs, a tabloid history of science, and the latest contemporary science news. The Talk Science Blog gives great ideas for promoting discussion about science in the classroom.

Science MuseumTeacher Resources include activities, videos, online games and websites, tips, tools, and demos. Browse the resources or search by age, subject, and topic.

The Science Museum was founded in 1857 as part of the South Kensington Museum, and became independent in 1909. Today the Science Museum is world renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries, and inspirational exhibitions.

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Extra: eQuizShow

eQuizShow is a free online tool designed for teachers to create and play their own free educational quiz shows using templates.

With eQuizShow, show students questions and answers to review. There have been more than 2200 templates created by and for teachers. No Powerpoint or registration is required.

eQuizShow was created by New York City high school junior Henry Wilson as a winter break project, but turned into a more ambitious endeavor.

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Featured: 6-10-2013 ThingLink

ThingLink helps you create rich, interactive images that come alive with music, video, text, images, and more.

ThingLink helps tell the stories contained in images. ThingLink interactive images can help students develop 21st century skills, using Images to engage, entertain, and educate.

What teachers and students can do by adding tags to any image:

• Create authentic, valuable, and rich interactive stories around historical events using multimedia found online.
• Annotate graphs and timelines.
• Record an instructional message inside an image.
• Embed interactive images into blogs.
• Curate content inside an image to demonstrate understanding of a topic.

Upload images directly from your hard drive or import from the web, Flickr, or Facebook. An education account lets teachers and students store an unlimited number of images.

 

Nearly all online content is embeddable on ThingLink images. Drop a link into the image editor and you will find that virtually all rich content from around the web is supported.

Users comment on images and follow image channels of other users. ThingLink images are shareable, and embeddable with a click to Edmodo, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and email.

 Watch a ThingLinktutorial

If you're a teacher or student, you can sign up to ThingLinkEducation for free. Thinglink is also available as a free app for iOS devices.

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The Rearview Mirror 6-8-2013

For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

Monday

Empressr is a free online visual storytelling and presentation application that lets you create, manage, and share rich media presentations.

Tuesday

TeachersPayTeachers is an open online marketplace where teachers buy and sell original downloadable educational materials, hard goods, and used educational resources.

Wednesday

The Answer Pad is a browser-based student response system with two main components: Go Interactive and The Answer Sheets, and the option to use mobile devices.

Thursday

Store all your formulas in one place with FormulaSheet. All your formulas will be accessible from anywhere you can connect to the Internet.