Guthman Musical Instrument Lesson Plans for K12 Teachers
Are your students ready to choose the “next” great instrument?
Georgia Tech Resources
#GTwashyourhands
In a time where small things make a big difference, like washing your hands, CEISMC has pulled together a collaborative team including Dr. Saad Bhamla (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering), Sabrina Grossman, and Heidi Turcotte (CEISMC). The team also includes Shannon Ladson (GoSTEAM Teacher) that wrote and performed the "Wash your hands..." song featured below and artist David Cohn (Innovator-in-residence) that created the colorful doodle graphic. Check out the resources provided and join the challenge. . Listen to the “Wash Your Hands Til You can’t No More” song written and performed by Jiro Smith and Shannon Ladson.
GTRI STEM Resources for Remote Learning
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is working with faculty across GTRI and partnering with the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) to develop free online resources for parents and teachers to use at home. These resources will be available on the GTRI website and the CEISMC STEAM from a Distance page.
NNCI Education and Outreach Resources
The National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) Education and Outreach team has compiled a list of resources for children and adults. It includes videos, online magazines, podcasts, and activities that can be done from home using common items. NNCI is part of Georgia Tech's Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) that facilitates innovation in micro/nano-enabled electronics & photonics.
Constellations Center for Equity in Computing
If you are a K-12 teacher looking for computer science activities to integrate into your classroom or a parent looking for computing activities to do at home, check out these free resources. All activities were created by a Constellations fellow.
EarSketch
EarSketch is a software that was developed at Georgia Tech's School of Music at the College of Design that helps students learn core topics in computer science, music, and music technology in a fun, engaging environment. Students learn to code in Python or JavaScript, two of the most popular programming languages in the world, while manipulating loops, composing beats, and applying effects to a multi-track digital audio workstation. Students can learning to write code and make music and using the integrated online curriculum.
Georgia Tech GoSTEM
The Latino College and STEM Fair, which was canceled this year, serves to bring Latino families, Georgia Tech students and faculty, representatives of many state universities, and community organizations together. The spirit of service and commitment of these groups and individuals has not stopped. GoSTEM presents to you a digital resource guide, which includes many of the resources that would have been shared physically by these institutions at this event.
CEISMC Resources
The CEISMC Resources website hosts a collection of STEAM focused lesson plans that are available for teachers to implement in their classrooms.
Online Resources
Access Mars (VR)
Access Mars lets you explore an 3D replica of the Martian surface, exactly as it was recorded by the Curiosity Rover.
Alice
Alice is a widely available software that provides access to early computer science education. Alice is free for all and is used by teachers for students at all levels. Subjects range from visual arts to the fundamentals of programming.
Ask Dr. Universe
Why do we get tears when we yawn? Ask Dr. Universe is an online introduction to common questions that students ask. Dr. Universe, a smart cat who investigates questions from curious students, tackles the tough questions to inspire young students to think critically, solve problems, and ask more questions. Parents help students send questions via email to Dr. Universe and she picks one big question to answer online each week.
Audible
Kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone, or tablet. Explore the collection, select a title, and start listening.
Boston Central
Boston Central is an independently owned and locally run web site that has long valued the opportunity to work together with local venues and performers, while truly enjoying its overall mission of helping promote all sorts of local events and activities to families in the Greater Boston area.
BirdBrain Technologies
BirdBrain Technologies cultivates creativity and computational thinking by providing flexible and inspiring products: the Finch Robot and the Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Have fun making creative robots with the Hummingbird Robotics Kit! Use the kit’s lights, sensors, and motors to build interactive robots out of materials you have at home.
BrainPop
BrainPop is a learning resource supporting core and supplemental subjects, reaching millions of learners worldwide. BrainPOP can be used as part of distance learning plans and keep students engaged and on-track. BrainPop is currently offering free access for schools and families impacted by school closures.
Channel 9
Channel 9: Visual Basic Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners is online resource of visual learning tools. Bob Tabor from www.LearnVisualStudio.net teaches the fundamentals of Visual Basic programming over the course of 26 episodes. The videos walk through the tools, writing code, debugging features, customizations and more!
CODE.Org
Take a code break literally! With schools closed and tens of millions of students at home.Code.org is launching Code Break - potentially the world’s largest live interactive classroom with weekly challenges to engage students of all abilities, even those without computers on Wednesdays at 1 PM. Teachers, if you are already teaching and incorporating Code.org curriculum and lessons into your classroom, please check out this link https://code.org/athome#teacher-support for ways on how to support your students virtually.
Edabit
Edabit provides beginner coding tutorials, challenges, and extra practice. The tutorials are beginner JavaScript tutorials where students learn by doing interactive tutorials. Challenges range from very easy to expert and include C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and Python coding languages.
Edutopia
This article from Edutopia lists quick tips for educators shifting to teaching online. The author of the article has experience with distance learning and provides pointers for keeping students engaged.
Education.com
Education.com includes printable worksheets, online games, and science projects. The provided resources are seperated by grade level and by subject to match the interests of the student.
Energy.gov
STEM rising is the Department on Energy resource page for students, teachers, and the energy workforce. Check out their Operation Clean Desert lesson for all ages. Interested in wind energy, there are some great STEM activities for teachers to use with their students.
EngineerGirl
EngineerGirl - Try This! is a webite designed to draw attention to the unique opportunities that engineering provides for girls and women. The site recognizes the importance of the diversity of thought and provides stories from women in STEM, maps out engineering careers, and includes advice on how to prepare for college.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium has created tools and experiences that help you to become an active explorer: hundreds of explore-for-yourself exhibits, a website with over 35,000 pages of content, and much more. They also create professional development programs for educators and are at the forefront of changing the way science is taught. They share our exhibits and expertise with museums worldwide.
GPB
Students in Pre-K through 12th grade can now access free, educational PBS daytime programming designated for each grade level weekdays on GPB-TV and GPB's 24/7 PBS KIDS Channel. The broadcast schedules will include trusted, educational programming. Additional GPB and PBS programs are also available to stream on gpb.org or the free PBS Video App and PBS KIDS Apps.
HHMI – BioInteractive
BioInteractive provides classroom resources, planning tools, and professional development tools for highschool students. The search engine provided seperates information by difficulty level, resource type, and specialty topic to allow students to explore the living world and analyze real data.
How to Identify Effective STEM Activities for Children
Published by Baylor University's online EdD program, this resource details the benefits and importance of early STEM education to inspire and foster critical thinking, communication, callaboration, and creativity. Effective STEM lesson plan guidelines are outlined. These guidelines also include how to use real-world applications to tie STEM educational lessons together.
Isla - Computer Programming
Computer programming for children that uses shapes and planets to teach a child to program. The Isla programming language is an open source and the code is available for viewing on Github.
Khan Academy
Created by experts, Khan Academy’s library of trusted, standards-aligned practice and lessons covers math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more. It’s all free for learners and teachers. Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning.
Math from the Georgia DOE
The Georgia Department of Education Mathematics Team has curated resources that align with the Georgia Standards of Excellence for Mathematics and Georgia Frameworks Units presented in the state curriculum frameworks. Each unit for each grade level includes at least 10 specific resources that students can use during the time of isolation to refine their mathematics skills. This curated repository of resources includes both web-based resources and hands-on, kinesthetic activities.
McAuliffe Center - From the Dome to Your Home
Whether it’s in the comfort of your own home or the seats of our domed theater, we are committed to bringing engaging and informative learning experiences to the students, families, and adult learners we serve. Here are some of the in-home programs and events planned for you.
MoMath - National Museum of Mathematics
MoMath, the National Museum of Mathematics, is an award-winning museum that highlights the role of mathematics in illuminating the patterns and structures all around us. Its dynamic exhibits, galleries, and programs are designed to stimulate inquiry, spark curiosity, and reveal the wonders of mathematics. The Museum’s innovative exhibits will engage visitors of every age, from 1 to 100!
NASA @ Home for Students Grades K-4
To infinity and beyond. Check out NASA STEM @ Home for Student. Build it, Solve it, or launch it. This easy to navigate site provides all sorts of lessons and activities anywhere. They even have coloring pages for younger children. I challenge you to build this dodecahedron, or maybe you're looking for an even bigger challenge by creating the Moon habitat.
NASA – Climate Kids
Climate Kids provides games, activities, and videos for elementary age students. The resources use educational and engaging activities to explain the earth's climate and its effect on plants and animals.
National Ecological Observatory Network
NEON is a continental-scale ecological observation facility, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and operated by Battelle, designed to gather and synthesize data on the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity on a continental scale. NEON collects and provides high quality, standardized data from its 81 terrestrial and aquatic sites across the United States
New South’s Portal to the Past
Have you ever wondered what archaeologists really do? What can we learn from archaeological sites and why should we protect them? To celebrate Archaeology Month in May, New South’s Portal to the Past is taking you and your family on a virtual journey into the past! All month long they will offer new and exciting ways for you to dig deep into the real work that archaeologists do.
Ocean Education
Who doesn’t love the ocean? The warm sun, the salty air, the sound of waves crashing. This site is one of my favorite resources. Choose from live lessons, teacher resources, and even become a digital explorer by watching their 360 videos. Need a quick brain break check out this ROV Scientist lesson that you can do with kids with things found around the house. For teachers out there looking for more resources and lessons to engage your students during digital learning, check out their professional development page.
Ology
The American Museum of Natural History presents this great science website for kids. There are games, stories, hands-on activities,and videos from a wide range of disciplines. There are great lessons for kids who may be interested in Astronomy, paleontology, marine science, the Brain and even zoology.
PBS KIDS - Engineering Games
PBS KIDS - Engineering Games includes a variety of online engineering games for young students looking to explore engineering concepts such as robotics, engines, and rocketships.
Rebound: An Example Game
Rebound is an advanced example game that includes example HTML and Javascript. The work, questions, exercises, and the end product is written out to fully explain the process of coding a game. The creator, Felix, writes out the script so readers can see how all the pieces fit together.
Science Kids
Science Kids is a website with a variety of free games, experiments, cool projects, interesting facts and more! Learn more about bridges, buildings, friction and more unique engineering topics. In addition to student resources, science kids provides lesson plans for teachers and ideas for parents assisting in online learning.
Scratch
Scratch helps students program their own interactive stories, games, and animations to encourage students to think creatively. Once their creation is complete, students can share their creations with others in the online community and learn how to work collaboratively. Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Land and is provided for free.
Smithsonian Learning Lab
Access to millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian's museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more. You will also find pre-packaged collections that contain lessons, activities, and recommended resources made by Smithsonian museum educators as well as thousands of classroom teachers.
STEM for All Multiplex
The STEM for All Mulipex provides playlists of 3-minute video presentations created by federally funded projects. These projects have developed quality STEM resources for teachers, students, and parents. We list the grade levels that they are appropriate for starting from Pre-K and continuing to High School. They may be useful to many during this time of school closures. We provide a link to the short 3-minute video as well as a link to the resources which are all free.
STEM Playground
STEM Playground is an online learning site that provides educators with advice for virtual teaching. In addition to advice for educators, the Activity Board consists of a list of activities for educators to cover with students. The activities cover a wide range of STEM topics, and all hands-on activities can be conducted from home.
STEAM Squad
People-powered curriculum for grades 5-7. Check-in Tuesdays for a new project.
Virtual Field Trips to Science Museums and Centers
Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.
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