LibGuides: STEM Educator Resources: Home

About this LibGuide

This LibGuide is designed to provide educators and future educators with resources to imporove teaching and learning in the STEM disciplines. The FSU Curriculum Library is constantly on the lookout for new and useful resources - if you know of any we should add, please contact us at curriculumlibrary@framingham.edu.

General Science Resources

AAAS Science NetLinks
The American Association for the Advancement of Science provides access to standards-based lessons and activities in the sciences.

These resources are general in nature, or speak to more than one STEM category.

For example, the NOVA resource has content pertinent to Earth Science, Technology & Math, and Physical Science.

AESP Resource Repository
Hundreds of links to lessons and activities developed by the Aerospace Education Services Project supported by NASA and Penn.
Concord Consortium
Activities and lessons in all STEM disciplines for all different age groups. Phenomenal collection of resources!
Khan Academy
Resources covering multiple disciplines within STEM, for all grade levels preK-16.
Museum of Science, Boston
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Click on the Education tab to find many great standards-based lessons and activities.
NASA Climate Kids
Aligns interactive lesson plans and activities to the Next Generation Science Standards.
NASA Quest
NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel.
National Science Teachers Association's List of Outstanding Science Tradebooks, 2012
Next Generation Science Standards
Expected to be in place by January, 2013, these are the new standards to which Massachusetts DESE plans to align.
NOVA/PBS Nova Education
Download entire NOVA episodes for free - I recommend signing up as a member (also free) to receive regular updates of events and opportunities as well as news about new content.
NSTA Learning Center
PBS Learning Media
Sing About Science and Math
Many free, and some not free videos and songs about all different aspects of science, math, engineering and technology. My personal favorite is the Fossil Rock Anthem!
Sparticl
Teachers Domain
Thousands of resources and lesson plans in all curricular areas, including STEM.
The Digital Library for Earth System Education
From the website: DLESE is the Digital Library for Earth System Education, a free resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth system. DLESE's development was funded by the National Science Foundation and continues to be built by a distributed community of educators, students, and scientists to support Earth system education at all levels.
Thinkfinity
Thousands of lessons, activities and resources across the curriculum, including STEM disciplines.
USGS Resources for Secondary Education (grades 7-12)

Important MA STEM Resources

Wordle

Create your own Wordle image at Wordle.net!

Next Generation Science Standards

Important! The DESE has begun the process of revising the Science, Technology and Engineering standards to align more closely to the Next Generation Science Standards. This link: http://www.doe.mass.edu/STEM/review.html will bring you to the page with the most up-to-date information.

This link: http://www.doe.mass.edu/stem/standards/FoundationBoxes.pdf leads to the 2013 Revised Draft STE Standards.

Next Generation Science Standards
Expected to be in place by January, 2013, these are the new standards to which Massachusetts DESE plans to align.
Next Gen Science Standards Pathfinder
From the amazing Concord Consortium, this resource helps find activities based on scientific & engineering practices and crosscutting concepts!

Our List of Apps

iPad Apps

We loan iPads to our Education majors who are enjoying their student teaching and field study experiences. The list below is our current list of iPad apps: