Saturday, March 8, 2014

Awesome Websites to Plan your STEM Lessons!

Here is a list of my top 15 awesome websites that will help you to take the shackles off of your lesson plans for free!

http://app.discoveryeducation.com/ - Here you will find instructional content, resources, tools, professional development and assessment services designed to help you accelerate student achievement.  Please note that your school may have an account with them already, so get the code so that you can start cooking with grease.

http://sciencekids.co.nz/lessonplans.html - Enjoy a wide range of fun science lesson plans featuring educational activities for kids, ideas for teachers, free online resources and more to help bring interactive, hands on science to your home or classroom.
Covering topics such as earth, animals, technology, water, biology, chemistry and space, these science lesson plans and activities are perfect for teaching students the basics of science. Challenge kids from an elementary to high school level with science activities that they will enjoy. Find a topic you're interested in and get started today!

https://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/about-ceismc - CEISMC is dedicated to the enhancement of STEM education in the schools based on the enormous scholarly accomplishments of GT faculty. CEISMC advocates and participates in efforts for systemic changes that lead to improved appreciation and performance in STEM for all students at the level of K-12, especially those under-represented in STEM education, and to disseminate best practices to districts and through scholarly works.

http://www.discovere.org/our-activities - hands on STEM activities

http://www.illustrativemathematics.org/ - Illustrative Math Lessons

http://www.ldc.org/ - Awesome lessons that intergrate science, socials studies, and language arts to create a rignorous learning environment and promote the high order critical thinking skills to complement the EiE-STEEM approach.

www.TeachingChannel.org - Project based learning videos and lessons.

https://www.udacity.com/ - Rigorous technology lessons

http://bie.org/project_search - In my opinion this is the best website of them all.  There are hundreds of projects to chose from that are directly aligned to the common core standards.

http://www.codecademy.com/ - Learn how to program computers for free!

http://www.khanacademy.org/ - Immaculate Lessons at all levels!

http://www.eie.org/eie-curriculum/curriculum-units - They have the best and most easy to adapt curricular units.
 
http://www.tenmarks.com/ - common core aligned lessons for math

http://stemgeorgia.org/ - this website will connect you to Georgia STEM office and all things STEM. 

http://www.nsta.org/publications/calendar/ - a list of educational science grants, opportunities and resources
 

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