A comprehensive website delving into the history and impact of video games. …
A comprehensive website delving into the history and impact of video games. Learn about how games are made, read personal gaming stories, take game quizzes, and much more.
How we can be in the parasympathetic "rest and digest" state of …
How we can be in the parasympathetic "rest and digest" state of our nervous system or the sympathetic "fight or flight" at any given moment. In both cases, we can only operate in one or the other brain networks at any given moment. Here is an overview of the focuses of these two networks whose primary functions are to assist brain operation. Imagine them as opposing sides of a teeter-totter; when one side is up, the other must be down.
PEEP and the Big Wide World, the animated Emmy Award-winning series that …
PEEP and the Big Wide World, the animated Emmy Award-winning series that teaches science and math to an early childhood audience, offers professional development videos hosted by and tailored to family child care educators and center-based educators, respectively. Explore the collection by science topic here. You also can earn PD certification for a one-hour self-paced session on science teaching strategies granted by PBS TeacherLine. For more great PEEP resources, including an extensive science curriculum, visit PEEP and the Big Wide World. This Collection includes: Video (57) for Grades All.
PERTS (Project for Education Resource That Scale) offers free resources help educators …
PERTS (Project for Education Resource That Scale) offers free resources help educators use research-based strategies to equitably support student engagement, agency, and learning.
How can we alter the design of chip packaging to be more …
How can we alter the design of chip packaging to be more sustainable while protecting the product? Students will design a better way to package potato chips that will be less harmful to the environment and protect the product from being crushed during shipping. The potato chip. It’s crispy. It’s salty. It’s delicious. And you can’t eat just one! As consumers, we often devour a bag of potato chips without giving a second thought to what happens to the bag when we throw it away. Did you know that the average potato chip bag is nearly impossible to recycle? That’s because most bags used for this purpose contain up to 7 layers of plastic! Currently, there is no way to separate those layers, so the bags end up in landfills.
This is a 60 to 90-minute lesson that includes a self-paced interactive module and classroom activities. The teacher guide includes a challenge sequence (timeline), relevance to standards, materials list, assessment, evaluation rubric, and learning extensions.
Lesson objectives: (1) Research and analyze green materials that can be used in product packaging. (2) Investigate 3-D shapes and how they might be used to protect products from damage. (3) Create a design for green packaging that will contain food products.
Support your Economics or History curriculum with this video that introduces students …
Support your Economics or History curriculum with this video that introduces students to Just Born, a candy manufacturer in Pennsylvania that is adapting its seasonal business model to changing times. Then, use the accompanying lesson plan, "'Tis the Season: Examining the Challenges of Seasonal Manufacturing in the American Economy," to have students interview local merchants, employers, workers, or community members to examine the role of and challenges to local seasonal industries in the American economy. This video is available in both English and Spanish. [5:14]
This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is …
This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is intended to support teachers, librarians, curriculum experts and others in identifying the terms of use for digital resources, so that the resources may be appropriately (and legally) used as part of lessons and instruction. The guide also helps educators and curriculum experts in approaching the task of securing permission to use copyrighted materials in their classrooms, collections, libraries or elsewhere in new ways and with fewer restrictions than fair use potentially offers. The guide was created as part of ISKME's Primary Source Project, and is the result of collaboration with copyright holders, intellectual property experts, and educators.
A full course presented by Khan Academy that features video lectures, short …
A full course presented by Khan Academy that features video lectures, short activities, and assessments in units on Saving and Budgeting, Interest and Debt, Investments and Retirement, Income and Benefits, Housing, Car Expenses, Taxes, Paying for College, and Keeping Your Information Safe.
The lab squad kids are currently researching this career. Check the Career …
The lab squad kids are currently researching this career. Check the Career Lab later in 2018. See the Lab Squad kids’ report for this career in Support Materials+
Photonics engineers are concerned with how light is emitted, transmitted, amplified, detected, …
Photonics engineers are concerned with how light is emitted, transmitted, amplified, detected, modulated, and switched for a variety of purposes. Lasers are a key component of photonics. Students will learn about careers in photonics. Engineering Your Future shares real stories from young professionals who want to inform and inspire students about in-demand engineering careers.
Students are introduced to prosthetics history, purpose and benefits, main components, main …
Students are introduced to prosthetics history, purpose and benefits, main components, main types, materials, control methods, modern examples including modern materials used to make replacement body parts and the engineering design considerations to develop prostheses. They learn how engineers and medical doctors work together to improve the lives of people with amputations and the challenges faced when designing new prostheses with functional and cosmetic criteria and constraints. A PowerPoint(TM) presentation and two worksheets are provided.
In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore the industries that produce and …
In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore the industries that produce and rely on advanced technology and assess how their goals and interests may make them well suited for a career in this cutting-edge sector.
Not ready to jump into a full station-rotation model? A great way …
Not ready to jump into a full station-rotation model? A great way to begin student-centered instruction is through independent study using playlists. Learn how to reassemble resources to personalize the needs of learners.
Podcasting has become an increasingly popular form of storytelling and communication in …
Podcasting has become an increasingly popular form of storytelling and communication in today’s digital age. In this session, we will look at the benefits of podcasting and then share resources and different platforms for recording and publishing student podcasts.
This presentation will help you find tools to engage your students in …
This presentation will help you find tools to engage your students in creating their own podcasts as well as uncovering the wealth of information that already exists in both short and long-form podcast format. Discover programs that make podcasting easier for you and for your students. Demystify the recording process and help your students create clear and compelling stories to share! Includes lesson plans for creating your own podcast.
Students follow the steps of the engineering design process while learning more …
Students follow the steps of the engineering design process while learning more about assistive devices and biomedical engineering applied to basic structural engineering concepts. Their engineering challenge is to design, build and test small-scale portable wheelchair ramp prototypes for fictional clients. They identify suitable materials and demonstrate two methods of representing design solutions (scale drawings and simple models or classroom prototypes). Students test the ramp prototypes using a weighted bucket; successful prototypes meet all the student-generated design requirements, including support of a predetermined weight.
How might you use an object’s gravitational potential energy to move an …
How might you use an object’s gravitational potential energy to move an object? This challenge will explore how differently shaped objects store potential energy and are affected by gravity. We can see the energy of motion around us every day. From how we run to school or work to driving in our cars, the energy of motion can be seen (and experienced) everywhere. Exploring the energy of motion is one of the easiest ways to understand how energy transfers since we can see it so concretely! Analyzing energy use can help us recognize how we might design and develop sustainable energy systems in the future.
This is a 120-minute lesson that includes a self-paced interactive module and classroom activities. The teacher guide includes a challenge sequence (timeline), relevance to standards, materials list, assessment, evaluation rubric, and learning extensions.
Lesson objectives: (1) Students recognize that mechanical energy includes: Kinetic energy (KE)- the energy of motion, and Potential energy (PE)- the energy of position. (2) Students recognize that stored energy is potential while moving energy is kinetic.
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