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STEAM is this weeks focus

2/20/2017

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​Whether you say STEAM or STEM, ultimately you are seeking to make connections between varied content to engage students.  This weeks feature will be on resources in the STEAM and STEM areas.  Check them out and hopefully something will be new an interesting to you for use with your students.  I checked out the sites and most had free registrations.  I loved what I found.

The Science Buddies and Science Kids sites were really user friendly and provided resources for hands on activities for all ages.  If you are a parent, teacher or student there is something for everyone on these sites.  The Mosa Mack site had hands-on labs.  The Mystery Science site had 2,999 free registrations available.  This site included open and go lessons to inspire students to love science.  

​The technology resources shared are all free and cover ages from K-12.  All involve creativity, coding and critical thinking.

​Engineering Go for It includes lesson plans, class activities, outreach programs and web resources. Here teachers will find tools to boot students math and science skills. NASA Education has resources for educators and students. The resources are broken into grade level categories.  Engineering Games is a PBS site that has a long list of games that engage students in engineering tasks. DIY is a site for students to try 100s of challenges and discover new skills.

​Scrap Coloring is a free site to develop a students artistic sense. Easy drawing guides provides tutorials on how to draw. Smithsonian Everything Art has lots of hands on activities and games about culture, history, people, and places. Make Beliefs comics allows users to create their own comic strip.

Cool Math Games was a free site, but it includes advertisements unless you subscribe, but the games were cool. Math is fun covered a variety of games and a variety of topics kindergarten to high school. Math Playground was really interactive and looks like a lot of fun.  There were varied categories of activities to choose from. Lastly, Math Games was a K-8 site and had a number of math games to choose from.

20 Great STEAM Websites for Young Learners

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1- Science
A- Mosa Mack
B- Science Buddies
C- Science Kids
D- Mystery Science

2- Technology
A- Tynker
B- ScratchJr
C- Google CS Education
D- Codecademy
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3- Engineering
A- Engineering Go for It
B- NASA Education
C- Engineering Games
D- DYI

4- Art
A- Scrap Coloring
B- Easy Drawing Guides
C- Smithsonian  Everything Art
D- Make Beliefs Comics

5- Math
A- Cool Math Games
B- Math is Fun
C- Math Playground
D- MathGames

Google Announcement - You can now Add Videos from Google Drive to Your Presentations

Users are now able to add, besides videos from YouTube,  videos they have in their Google Drive right into their slides. The process is very simple. Here is how to insert a Drive video into your presentation: Open Google Slides, click on ‘Insert’ then choose ‘Video’ and click on ‘Google Drive’. From there you can select the  Drive video you want to use.
Once the video is added to your presentation, you can then customize its setting by simply right-clicking on the video and selecting ‘Video options’. You have the option to determine when exactly the video starts and ends, and whether you want the video to automatically play when presenting. You can also choose whether to mute the audio of your video or play with audio. Additionally, People who do not have permission to view your Drive videos will not be able to see the videos embedded in your presentation and they will be prompted to request access. 'While you can play Drive videos in Slides on the web and mobile, you can only insert them from the web application. 

Summer Professional Development

Click here to checkout information about this summers technology camp being offered at Littlestown, June 6, 7, 8.  This is being organized by the Littlestown School District's technology integrator.  I am told that Act 48 will be given for participation in the workshops.  Registration will be open in the near future through the Act 48 website.  For questions you can contact Gabrielle Sipe at sipeg@lasd.k12.pa.us.
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