Spatial resources suggested by stem for girls think tank (2010) participants
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Many great resources shared by teachers and administrators at the 2010 STEM for Girls Think Tank. The list is not well organized. I extracted the information from the wiki discussion pages and listed the web sites if I could find them. http://www.canstruction.org/ (community Service related) http://www.teachengineering.org/ http://www.dotdiva.org/ (for computing) Engineer Your Life http://www.engineeryourlife.org/ EPICS and Purdue https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/About (community Service related) PBS Design Squad http://pbskids.org/designsquad/ Engineering is Elementary http://www.mos.org/eie/ Celebrating Women Explorers http://www.wingsworldquest.org/ Odyssey of the Mind http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/ Two independent schools organized a competition https://www.foxcroft.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&tn=Ferrell+McClean+Math-Science+Competition+this+Saturday!&nid=474271&ptid=106468&sdb=True&pf=pgl&mode=0&vcm=False http://www.bigbrainacademy.com/ Big Brain Academy on Wii The Home of Mathematical Knitting: http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mathknit.html Isometric Drawings http://illuminations.nctm.org/activitydetail.aspx?id=125 Math Olympiad: http://www.moems.org/ 4th-8th grade block. LS teachers get them ready to think and work critically on larger problems. Work in groups. Does group work inhibit students from pressing forward? Benchmarks from Project 2061, there are PK - 12 strands. Loise S. McGehee School 5th, 6th & 7th required robotics class. 70 minute periods to teach robotics. Collaborated with the math teacher to make sure they have the math skills necessary. Developed a STEM elective club with 5th & 6th grade with lots of interest from the girls. http://stemchallenge.org/ They have done Barbie Bunjee jump in Physics. http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L646 Geometrical Riddles by Mindtrap - cards with problems on them; on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/MINDTRAP-GEOMETRICAL-RIDDLES-NOVICE-LEVEL/dp/B001L6DWCU National Lab Day - a place for STEM people to share
http://www.jets.org/ Ace Mentorship - architect, engineer, project manager http://www.acementor.org/ Portal - Steam - game http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/ We need to learn how to ask the right questions in order to make online discussions more valuable Socratic Questions http://changingminds.org/techniques/questioning/socratic_questions.htm Engineers without Borders http://www.ewb-usa.org/?gclid=CIa45IG_qKUCFQ2e7QodY2jnJg Science Olympiad http://soinc.org/ Sites with videos: HippoCampus BrightStorm Khan Academy College Preparatory Math
Online computer programs that progressed at the pace of the students learning Carnegie Learning Created Mobile Tinkering Stations Cart -- Sherry Lee at Hockaday slee@mail.hockaday.org
Impact Math – build block structures and then draw a flat picture. Then would reverse the process. First Grade – Frameblocks. Allows you to go from 2D to 3D immediately. [I am not sure what this recommendation refers to…online I found this http://www.uni.edu/coe/regentsctr/Activity_Sheets/Pattern%20Blocks%20and%20Frames%20Activity%20Sheet.pdf Make Magazine” has cool stem like projects. Talk to librarian to see about a subscription. (http://makezine.com/magazine/ $34.95 for the print subscription, $9.99 for the digital version…4 issues per year)
Hexa Hexa Flexa Guns – six sides and six different faces. When you flex it you go from one face to a different face. http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/flexagon/Flexagon.html http://www.mathnstuff.com/papers/tetra/hexa.htm http://www.flexagon.net/
Mindware http://www.mindware.com/Home/HomePage.aspx and Creative (now part of McGraw-Hill) are publications contains where all sorts of different math pieces like pentaminos can be purchased.
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