Here are some search engines you may not be aware of, most for STEM research:
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
Imagine teaching science without equipment and materials to do lab or other hands-on activities. Imagine your science classroom not having electricity, let alone Internet access. What types of active science lessons are possible? This site is dedicated to providing lesson plans for a variety of active, hands-on that any teacher can use! Let's be sure EVERY student, no matter their circumstances, can learn science by doing some science!
This project, nicknamed SEE-SAW, is meant to provide opportunities for any student in any school to do science. Even for schools in the poor...
Here are some search engines you may not be aware of, most for STEM research:
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
One of our physics activities is the rubber band instrument. Check out the video for it. I was reminded of this one when my daughter, who is in college and preparing to become an elementary school teacher, was trying to find ways of doing sound experiments with first graders.
My students know I am really into the inclusion of helping humanity into our physics classes, and also promoting the skills we ALL need and use every day of our lives, Social-Emotional Learning skills (SEL). It is to the point where ETHS, and most districts around the country, are promoting and including SEL into their district plans and goals. This is good news for everyone, and now the challenge is to all learn what SEL is (and is NOT), why we need it for our students, evidence that it works (otherwise it would be a waste of time and resources), and finally how it can be embedded within content courses.
If interested, I have created a SEL in Schools series of slide decks and accompanying videos, as well as hundreds of examples of lesson ideas in all subject areas/departments for middle schools and high schools, in order to train teachers and staff, as well as build up 'buy in' among teachers when they see how possible and valuable it is to include SEL in lessons on a fairly regular and consistent basis.
Note that STEM courses are often viewed as the most challenging to include SEL within, so there's a video just on the use of SEL in STEM classes.
If you happen to view it and find it useful, please share with other teachers, administrators, schools, etc. All of it is free, and with the slides you can make a copy and then use it or modify to your needs, as you please!
You can't be best friends with everyone, but you CAN:
- notice everyone
- be friendly to everyone
- make room for everyone
- cheer for everyone
- listen to everyone
- have a smile for everyone
- say hello to everyone
- empathize with everyone
Oh, and you can be nice to yourself, too!
This shows how students can go after determining what affects the period of a pendulum.
For schools that have electricity and equipment that can be used to set up simple circuits, this outlines an experiment where students can create an empirical formula for Ohm's law (and actually 'discover' Ohm's law). It shows how experimental science is done.
This is a relevant concern for many African nations.