SPATIAL RESOURCES SUGGESTED BY STEM FOR GIRLS THINK TANK (2010) PARTICIPANTS
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.nationallabday.org/
IP Videoconferencing equipment -bring in quality people virtually; CILC has many resources for small fees; 45-60 min.
http://cilc.org/
Jets club (national club) - supported by physics and science teachers, similar to Science Olympiad - there is a competition they are building a project for; high school girls
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
Contains rubiks cube, puzzles,
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)
Paper engineering elective at Hockaday. Patti Black pblack@mail.hockaday.org
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.
Cog AT – spatial test http://www.riversidepublishing.com/products/cogAt/details.html
Have hands on activities for rainy day recess.
- Tetris
- Rush Hour Game online
- Puzzles.com (logic puzzle tab, stringco, gridworks, )
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ NCTM Resources for Teaching Math\
RSA Animates….similar to TED TALKS http://www.thersa.org/events/vision
For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress. Our approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action.
NCWIT—National Center for Women & Information Technology
http://www.ncwit.org/about.factsheet.html
Information on awards from NCWIT
http://www.ncwit.org/work.awards.aspiration.html
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