Hands on Science and Math Activities

Here's an example of what you may find at eGFI- For Teachers.
Conveyor Engineering
Better Traffic Flow (Grades 9-12)
Hovercraft Racers (Grades 7-9)
Construct a Road Sign Support (Grades 6-12)

Also be sure to check out How to Smile, a free website for teachers to find ideas and directions for hands-on math, science, and engineering lessons.

10 best resources for teaching K-12 STEM projects

eClassroom News has a published a list of 10 best resources for teaching K-12 STEM projects for 2014.

• FIRST Robotics 
• Kinetic City 
• MASTER Tools 
• NASA for Educators
• National Science Foundation 
• The National STEM Video Game Challenge 
• Pinterest 
• Project Lead the Way 
• Science Buddies 
• Science Fair Project Ideas

Focus on STEM

Recent posts in eClassroom News, STEM apps for physics, algebra, and more and State-by-state STEM education resources place a focus on STEM for March. These two posts include wonderful suggestions for apps and the information is provided for iOS and Android. The list of STEM education resource links organized by state will be most helpful to them.

A suggestion from the Delaware STEM website is KidsPost Features - The Washington Post. There are articles, puzzles, contests and more available that may be used in the STEM classroom.

Check this article out for State by State STEM Resources.

PBS offers a STEM Resource Center.

Check out Scitable, a free science library.

STEM Careers

There are schools in the United States that are designated as STEM schools. Has there been a change in the focus on STEM in your school? Do you have news to share?

10 Innovative STEAM Education Apps in STEM

eSchool News, April 4, 2014, published a list of 10 educational Apps for STEAM. A recent educational effort has been made to include the Arts in the STEM educational curriculum, thus STEAM. Here are the Apps that made the list:
A Life Cycle App
Science 360 for iPad *
Do Ink Animation & Drawing
Hakitzu Elite: Robot Hackers
Build a Ship with Kate and Harry
Cat Physics
MoMA Art Lab*
iPastels*
Bugs and Numbers
King of Math

An asterisk * denotes free and the other Apps range in price from $0.99 to $4.99.

Search Multiple Sites at One Time

While this may not be the best solution, you can do a batch search using Google. The key is to remember to place this in the search box, be sure the OR is capital and that you have the address correct. word(s) site:site1 OR site:site2 Here's what I put as an exampl while searching two Thinkfinity content partners at one time. Van Gogh site:readwritethink.org OR site:artsedge.kennedy-center.org I then tried by adding another site to search three at once. Worked great. I know this isn't the same as the built in aggregated search within Thinkfinity, but I hope it will help.

Take a look at digieducate!

With the close of the Thinkfinity Community as an umbrella for the Content Partners and their groups, a Symbaloo site - http://digieducate.symbaloo.com - has been created for easy access to the Content Partners' resources. Symbaloo.com is a visual bookmarking and sharing tool. The application acts as a personal learning environment. If your resource has a URL, it can be a link with the Symbaloo site. If you are an educator, I recommend creating your own Symbaloo at http://edu.symbaloo.com. Then you can create a bookmark to http://digieducate.symbaloo.com on your own Symbaloo site.

A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom | Edutopia

A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom | Edutopia



Here's a a good read from February 2014.  Includes:
12 Ways Teachers are Using Social Media in the Classroom Right Now