Econ Lowdown is an award-winning free economic education portal for teachers and students. In addition to classroom management tools, Econ Lowdown provides online modules, articles, videos and podcasts for teaching economics and personal finance in ways that are engaging and relevant to students.

A web-based textbook/course created by Lumen Learning. Part 1 concerns Educational History and Policy, covering common educational policies from 1770's to the present; Part 2 is Educational Psychology, covering topics such as human brain, language and physical development, Nature v. Nurture, and theories and practices for working with K-12 youth.

PUT YOUR ENGINEERING SKILLS TO THE TEST
Calling all future engineers! Grand Canyon University invites you to participate in our interactive, virtual STEM E-Week competition!

Do you have what it takes to build the strongest bridge? Show us! GCU’s spring E-week will host two design competition levels for classrooms and individual students.

Intermediate: Toothpicks and wood glue
Difficult: Spaghetti noodles and hot glue
The bridge design from each level to hold the most weight wins!

See rules for each competition level below. Rules are also included in your confirmation email.

Intermediate Rules
Difficult Rules
GCU LIVE engineering webinar presentations
GCU will also host two GCU LIVE presentations to help future engineers gain industry knowledge. Each webinar will feature a keynote speaker from GCU’s engineering leadership, a live tour of the engineering building and an engineering student panel with a live Q&A session.

Feb. 24 – 4 pm (AZ Time): The future of engineering
Feb. 26 – 4 pm (AZ Time)*: What to look for in an undergraduate engineering program and announcing winners

*The winners of the design competition and prizes will be announced at the Feb. 26 GCU LIVE event.

Spots are limited, so register, early!

The Future Skills Experience equips you with media and interactive activities for 5 Days of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math programming, a Keynote Presentation, and "How to" Guides.

2nd Annual Girls Get IT Online Event
Featuring Women in Information Technology
November 13, 2020 • 8:30 am - 1 pm
female information technology worker

Inviting Female High School Students Interested in the Field of Information Technology
Discover the endless possibilities available to women in the field of information technology (IT) and make invaluable connections to educational partners and professionals already working in the field.

FREE COMPUTER SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS, EDUCATORS, AND PARENTS

We release activities weekly on Mondays — some online, some offline, of varying levels of difficulty. Each activity features a woman in tech who pioneered innovative technology.

The signature Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program will be running virtually in 2021. The 2-week opportunity is available to rising sophomore, junior, and senior girls—trans and cis—and non-binary students. No prior computer science experience is required.

This 2-week virtual program teaches girls—trans and cis—and non-binary students the computer science skills they need to make an impact in their community while preparing for a career in tech. Participants will get exposure to tech jobs, meet women in tech careers, and join a supportive sisterhood of girls in tech.
Rising 10-12th Grade

Now welcoming rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors!

2-week virtual program this summer

$300 needs-based stipend provided (for eligible students in the United States)

GlobalMindED is a 501(c)(3) closing the equity gap by creating a capable, diverse talent pipeline with programs, content and courses for students from the least resourced backgrounds through connections to role models, mentors, internships, experiences and jobs that make them employment worthy, promotion ready and financially fit to navigate a hierarchical world. We serve low-income students, returning adults seeking badges/credentials, First Gen to college and inclusive leaders who teach them, work with them and hire them.

This activity aims to teach students about the different layers of the atmosphere. It also aims to teach them which part of our atmosphere is considered outer space and what phenomena occur in each layer.

A student activity book compliments of Tucson Electric Power and UniSource Energy Services.

Do you need to learn a language like Java, Python, C#, or HTML in order to get a state certification or teach a class next year?

CompuScholar's free Skill Building Program can help!

By popular demand, we now offer both a Summer Skills and a Winter Skills session.

Our students will be studying and exploring the human impact on groundwater. They will study the water deprivation impacts both locally and in the San Joaquin Valley. Students will explore and come to understand the benefits of collecting rainwater. We partnered with the City of Eugene and had the wonderful Jackie come in. Our students brought in many of the materials including cardboard boxes, empty plastic containers (sour cream, water bottles,etc), tin foil, wax paper, duct tape,etc. We as teachers provided the underground sprinkler tubing cutting material, more tape and supplies. We tested this project with our 5th graders so we could make improvements and continue this project next year. In order to complete this project, we needed a full three weeks of working for an hour plus every day. We incorporated this project into our reading and science timeline.

The Learning Prism is on a mission to transform the lives of underserved and underprivileged communities through the power of education. They are committed to providing accessible high-quality learning resources to empower communities and unlock the potential of countless individuals who deserve a brighter future.

Free online curricula include a variety of courses in categories such as Administrative Skills, Career Development, Human Resources, Microsoft Suite, Personal Development, Sales and Marketing, Supervisors and Managers, and Workplace Essentials.

An awesome list of everything STEAM
Awesome STEAM is a community curated list of high quality science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) resources for specific STEAM courses that students and teachers all over the world across all grade levels can use to supplement their learning.

The Sun moves across the sky at an approximately constant rate because of the rotation of the Earth. By measuring how fast the Sun moves, you can work out how big the Sun appears in the sky. All you need are some household items and about 30 minutes on a sunny day.

An interactive simulation in which students use a model of charged objects to explain how charges interact and construct an understanding of Coulomb's Law. It is concerned with comparing ions and neutral atoms. The model allows the user to investigate the relationships between sign of charge, magnitude of charge, and distance between ions. The model illustrates the operation of three types of electroscopes. Next it visually explores how a static charge can bend the path of a moving electron, and then graphically and numerically explores Coulomb's Law. Lastly a model that illustrates polarization of charge illustrates why a charged balloon is attracted to a neutral wall. The system allows students to enter their multiple choice and written answers throughout the activity and generate a report of their responses at the end even if they are not logged into the system.

Many children may have heard of black holes and already have the understanding that they are ‘bottomless wells’. If something falls into a black hole, it is impossible for it to escape—even light cannot escape and is swallowed. The lack of light is how black holes get their name. These objects are mysterious and interesting, but they are not easy to explain. This activity will allow children to visualize, and therefore help them decompose, the concepts of space-time and gravity, which are integral to understanding these appealing objects.

Try the new "Ladybug Motion 2D" simulation for the latest updated version. Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration vectors. Move the ball with the mouse or let the simulation move the ball in four types of motion (2 types of linear, simple harmonic, circle).

My Next Move is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration, and developed by the National Center for O*NET Development.

The toolkit is made up of three elements:
1). information and resources to support your evaluation activities
2). an interactive tool to guide you through our Evaluation and Synthesis framework, providing an opportunity to submit findings, observations and links to evidence AND which feeds this back to you for inclusion in your project reporting mechanisms
3). examples of evaluation materials, instruments and reports from other UKOER projects