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Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: – Do Bands
“Grab a Do-Band and Get It Done!” The Do-Band project sets out to create positive social change through self-empowerment. One of the greatest obstacles facing “Causes” is that you often must convince the person to support your cause?but this creates a paralyzing chasm between acknowledgement and action. Signatures and pledges mean very little without true commitment. Do-Bands combine this insight with the realization that everyone has their own causes that they care about. Everyone has something on his/her To-Do list that they want to do, they ought to do, but they just never get to it (calling your mom, registering to vote, or donating blood). These are powerful to-do items that have a lot of potential…if only they were completed. Do-Bands overcome this block. Here is how they work: We labeled and handed out hundreds of Do-Bands. By accepting a Do-Band, you are pledging to wear the Do-Band until you fulfill your promise. Then, you record your success, and pass the Do-Band to someone else! However, each Do-Band has a unique number on it, so the value and journey of the individual band can be tracked online (dobands.blogspot.com). In this way, participants are given the opportunity to see how other stories have branched out from theirs, creating a social web of success stories that empowers people to take action. In addition, we created Virtual Do-Bands that allowed us to reach beyond the Stanford campus and actually go international. Do-Bands were able to capture the spirit of E-Week by promoting creativity, risk taking, and innovation by encouraging individuals to follow through with a commitment to themselves or others. “
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Gever Tulley: Life lessons through tinkering | Video on TED.com
Gever Tulley uses engaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School. When given tools, materials and guidance, these young imaginations run wild and creative problem-solving takes over to build unique boats, bridges and even a roller coaster!
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Crash Course in Creativity: Attitude – Mastering a Creative Mindset – YouTube
“Crash Course in Creativity: Attitude – Mastering a Creative Mindset “
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The Innovative Educator: Why on earth would 2nd graders use Twitter? Read this to find out.
“The point of their work was to attract tourists to their town. To do that they decided to use Twitter to let people know they could take a virtual tour of Bathurst that they hoped would entice people to come visit. They decided to use Twitter as a primary outreach tool.”
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“Art4Apps is a database of images and audio files of words created by iLearn4Fun under a Creative Common License (CC BY-SA). We hope to help developers and educators create applications for educational uses at a low cost through the use of our resources. The primary objective in sharing this database is to promote apps development in the field of literacy in an effort to support and sustain the diversity among world languages.”
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Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects
“Amazon Mission is an eighth-grade unit that is presented in the context of helping indigenous people in Brazil. It engages students in designing an insulated carrier that will keep medicine cool, a water filtration system, and a strategy for tempering the spread of an influenza virus.”
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“Phase Diagrams – Why does the egg go from uncooked to cook as we increase the temperature? What is it about the material that this happens?”
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Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Radio Stories
“Women in Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics ON THE AIR! Listen to stories about fascinating women working and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields; and learn about programs and practices throughout the U.S. designed to broaden the participation of women in STEM.” -
eGFI – For Teachers » Lesson: Solar Water Heater
“Student teams gain a better understanding of heat transfer and engineering by designing and building solar water-heating devices that mimic those used in residences. Once the model devices are constructed, students perform efficiency calculations and compare designs.”
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eGFI – For Teachers » Lesson: Design From Nature
“how engineers can use biomimicry to enhance their designs. They learn how careful observation of nature — in this case, reverse engineering a flower to glean design ideas — can lead to new innovations and products. “
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eGFI – For Teachers » Lesson: Working Together to Live Together
“experience civil and environmental engineering by planning a housing development while also protecting the native species that live there. They conduct research, draw plans, make brochures, and give presentations”
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eGFI – For Teachers » Radio Days: Women in STEM
“The Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics hopes its online radio series featuring stories of fascinating women scientists, engineers, and educators will inspire girls–including those with disabilities–to pursue STEM careers.”
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Useful Links | The Accelerator
“Here are some links you may find useful. Wherever possible, we’ve linked directly to student sections of the websites.”
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Helping Limited-Mobility Children Use Touchscreens | The Accelerator
“Access4Kids with the aim of opening up entertainment, educational benefits and social media available on tablets to children with fine motor impairments. The wireless input device uses a sensor system to translate physical movements into fine-motor gestures to control a tablet.”
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“WOOF’s winning project will enable waste plastic to be used as filament for 3D printing machines, to create new products. The winning team, Bethany Weeks, Matthew Rogge and Brandon Bowman, plan to work with US based NGO, Water for Humans (WFH), to address local issues in water and sanitation in Oaxaca, Mexico.”
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3D Used for Low-Cost Sanitation | The Accelerator
“additive manufacturing as a means to bring social benefits to the developing world. The students designed Big Red, a 3-D printer that takes shredded plastic waste, melts it, and uses it as its “ink” to print composting toilets and parts for rainwater collection systems”
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MIT TechTV – 2.007 – A Design for Success
MIT 2007: A Design for Success – a 36 minute documentary about the famous mechanical engineering design contest follows the trials and tribulatoins of a group of students participants – from day one through the exciting 1998 contest Finals. “
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“Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (MTMS) focuses on intuitive, exploratory investigations that use informal reasoning to help students develop a strong conceptual basis that leads to greater mathematical abstraction. “
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Classroom-Ready STEM Lessons: Winter Tech
“As winter approaches, it’s easy to forget that parts of the planet rarely rise above the freezing mark. These icy outposts often hold vast deposits of oil, gas, and minerals. They also present challenges for cold-region engineers, such as the effect of low temperatures on construction materials or how to keep pipelines flowing. Your designers will warm up to cryogenics with this month’s activity. See if any need mittens! “
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Heifer Global Village | Heifer International® | Heifer.org
“Heifer Global Village Site Sponsors offer unique and easy ways for you to experience Heifer International’s powerful Global Village programs. Whether you go for a quick Cultural Connections visit, attend an overnight Global Gateway program or sign up for a multi-night Global Explorers program, Heifer Global Village programs at site sponsors are a great way to get a unique, first-hand look at the challenges surrounding hunger and poverty.”
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Games & Simulations about Weather, Climate & the Atmosphere | Spark
“directory of games, simulations, and virtual labs for Weather, Climate and Atmospheric Science Education. This page is a sub-section of Randy Russell’s larger collection of links to games, simulations, and virtual labs for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) education in general.”
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Interactives & Simulations for Weather, Climate & Atmospheric Science Education | Spark
“collection of interactives and simulations related to weather, climate, atmospheric science and space weather education. “
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
” National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. The center has some fantastic interactive exhibits, much like what you find at Exploratorium in California. In addition to the physical location, the National Center for Atmospheric Research has some wonderful online games, activities and resources for the classroom.”
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Oak Hills Portfolio » 6. BYOD: Developing an Acceptable Use Policy
“Developing an AUP was a process. We spent considerable time reviewing other AUPs as well as researching effective acceptable use policies. Broadly, our goals were:
Develop an AUP that outlined appropriate behavior in positive terms
Outline the procedures involved with following or not following the AUP” -
How To Train Your Robot: how I teach kids to program without computers | Offbeat Families
“The game works as follows: every kid is turned into a “robot master” and their mom or dad becomes their “robot.” I give each kid a “Robot Language Dictionary” and explain to them that this is the language their robot understands. The dictionary has symbols for “move left leg forward,” “turn left,” “grab,” “drop,” etc.”
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