Articles used during workshop
Research and News Articles
Materials exploring how to teach or read a scholarly/news article
- Teaching the Anatomy of a Scientific Journal ArticleArticle that describes three activities that use specific strategies to minimize potential learning barriers that could arise from vocabulary or reading issues.
- Exploring Scientific Research Articles in the ClassroomTeachers' guide on how to use research articles in your science lessons
- How to Read a Scientific PaperArticle that examines the anatomy of a research article. Helpful illustrations as well as a case study example.
- How to Read and Understand a Scientific ArticleHandout to give to students (by Jennifer Raff)
- How to Read a Research Article (example 1)Vaccine Safety Study
- How to Read a Research Article (example 2)Case study from Plant Physiology
- How to Read a Scholarly Journal ArticleVideo on how to read a scholarly article
Differentiation Strategies
- Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit AllThis book contains resource for implementing differentiated instruction at the high school level.
- On Target: Strategies that Differentiate InstructionThis website provides teachers with ideas and
strategies to incorporate into their subject areas.
Assessment Strategies
- Science JournalismExplores how the practices of good science journalism can inform high school science education.
- Student-Generated Questions in Mathematics Teaching Foster, C. (2011). Student-Generated Questions in Mathematics Teaching. Mathematics Teacher, 105(1), 26-31.
- Supporting Argumentation through Students' Questions: Case Studies in Science Classrooms Chin, C., & Osborne, J. (2010). Supporting Argumentation through Students' Questions: Case Studies in Science Classrooms. Journal Of The Learning Sciences, 19(2), 230-284.
- STEM Student Research Handbook byISBN: 9781936137244Publication Date: 2011-07-01
STEM Periodicals/News for Students
- InvolveInvolve showcases and encourages high-quality mathematical research involving students from all academic levels.
Text Set Example
A text set is an variety of topic-related texts from various sources, including trade books, news articles, videos, and even poems. Just as a scientist may read every article they can find on a topic to build background knowledge and gain an understanding of terminology, students can "read the research" collected in text sets in order to build their own knowledge base.
- Bissekty FormationThe Bissekty Formation is situated in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan, and dates from the late Cretaceous Period.
- Dino DirectoryThe Natural History Museum's online guide to dinosaurs with images, facts and figures for over 300 dinosaurs
- Early tyrannosaurs would have feared this predatorStudent science news article
- Encyclopedia of LifeGlobal access to knowledge about life on Earth.
- Ancient Earth Journals byISBN: 9781633220331Publication Date: 2015-09-01
- Dinosaurs byISBN: 9780375824197Publication Date: 2007-10-23
- National Geographic Dinosaurs byISBN: 9780792282242Publication Date: 2001-10-01
- Tracking Tyrannosaurs byISBN: 9781426313745Publication Date: 2013-09-24
- Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology byISBN: 9780253009302Publication Date: 2013-07-05
Technology Resources
General Tools
- Animoto Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows.
- Free Technology for TeachersFree Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology
- Poll Everywhere Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web.
- VoiceThread VoiceThread is a web-based platform that enables teachers and students to upload images, video, or documents, record audio, video, or text comments, and then invite others to record comments as well.
Subject Specific Tools
- ChemCollective (Chemistry) Is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests.
- DesmosGraph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, and explore transformations
- Electronics Tools (Engineering) Circuit design tools
- GeoGebraSolve equations, graph functions, create constructions, analyze data, explore 3D math
- MASTER Tools (Science) Interactive tools and simulation environments that enable and encourage exploration and discovery through observation, conjecture, and modeling activities.
- nanoHUB.org (Science and Engineering) On nanoHUB.org, you can run over 320 simulation tools in a web browser.
- PhET (Math and Science) Creates free interactive math and science simulations.
- Plotly (Math and Science) Is an online analytics and data visualization tool
Math Resources
- Concord ConsortiumIs a non-profit educational technology laboratory for science, math and engineering.
- Khan Academy Offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard
- MathBytesICERM's "MathBytes@ICERM" series introduces math topics in unique 10-20 minute clips.
- MIT Open Courseware A collection of Engineering courses and resources from across MIT. Some are materials that were used to teach MIT undergraduates, while others were designed specifically for high school students
- OER CommonsTeaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost.
- PBS LearningMediaMath and Science Resources
- PRIMEPlatonic Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia
- WolframAlpha Is a computational search engine (sometimes referred to as an "answer engine").
- HippoCampus (Math & Science) HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.
Science Resources
- American Association for the Advancement of ScienceScience Links
- CrashCourse Is an educational YouTube channel
- Encyclopedia of EarthAn electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.
- Khan Academy Offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard
- MIT Open Courseware A collection of Engineering courses and resources from across MIT. Some are materials that were used to teach MIT undergraduates, while others were designed specifically for high school students
- National Science Digital LibraryAn open-access online digital library and collaborative network of disciplinary and grade-level focused education providers.
- Science UpdateScience Update is a daily, 60-second feature covering the latest discoveries in science, technology and medicine.
- Understanding Science Produced by the UC Museum of Paleontology of the University of California at Berkeley, in collaboration with a diverse group of scientists and teachers, and was funded by the National Science Foundation
Engineering Resources
- Design & Discovery Design and Discovery is an academic enrichment curriculum that engages students in hands-on engineering and design activities that enhance knowledge, and problem solving skill in the areas of science and engineering.
- Khan Academy Offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard
- LearnEngineering.org Contains interactive and insightful videos on popular topics such as ‘How Torsen Differential Works?’, ‘How do Diesel Engines Work?’, ‘Transformer Core Types’, ‘Computational Fluid Dynamics’, ‘How Does A Steam Turbine Work?
- MIT Open Courseware A collection of Engineering courses and resources from across MIT. Some are materials that were used to teach MIT undergraduates, while others were designed specifically for high school students
- TryEngineering Teaching resources, information about school accreditation, and description of plans, organizations and programs that can be of help in planning and preparing students to develop a future career in engineering.
- WolframAlpha Is a computational search engine (sometimes referred to as an "answer engine").
Games in Education
Using gaming principles to improve teaching.
- Compounded A game about building chemical compounds through careful management of elements, a fair bit of social play and trading, and just a bit of luck.
- Evolution: The Dynamic Game of Survival In Evolution, you’re in the midst of a dynamic ecosystem of limited resources and hungry predators. What traits will your species need to eat, multiply and thrive? The answer changes with every game. 4000 different species to create.
- Ion: A Compound Building Game A card-drafting game about building compounds
- Pandemic Pandemic is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each threatening to wipe out a region.
- Prime Climb Prime Climb is a beautiful, colorful, mathematical board game designed for 2 to 4 players.
- Secret Code 13+4 Tonight is the night the secret mission "Amun Re" begins. The team, made up of four cunning secret agents, breaks into the museum and thanks to their precise calculations cracks the tricky codes of the security installation. Be it through addition or subtraction, multiplication or division, the numbers on the dice have to be combined so that the results coincide with the code numbers.
