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Empowering Students Through Technology

  1. Georgia Public Broadcasting - Provides CAE with many resources to use for tutoring STEM, history, math, science, and English languages arts, with short videos produced by PBS Learning Media.
  2. NASA – For Educators, offers CAE lesson plans, teacher guides, classroom activities, video clips, games, posters, and more for teachers and students in grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12, and higher education.
  3. Exploratorium - Affords CAE with interactives, web features, activities, programs, and events for K-12
  4. eGFI: Dream Up the Future - Promotes engineering education with K-5, 6-8, 9-12 lesson plans, activities, outreach programs, and links to web resources. Teachers and students can download the first three issues of the eGFI magazine.
Annenberg Learner - Offers a variety of creative STEM lesson plans for middle school students involving math, for example:
  1. Use a scene from Alice in Wonderland to introduce negative exponents and the rules for dividing powers.
  2. Examine the difference in the number of revolutions for each of two gears in a model, to understand the significance of the radii of the gears.
  3. Explore quadratic functions by using a motion detector known as a Calculator Based Ranger (CBR) to examine the heights of the different bounces of a ball.
Teaching Channel - Supplies CAE with videos of fun STEM activities for middle school students, including:
  1. Graphing Linear Equations—Full Body Style: A hands-on activity to get students engaged in math.
  2. Turning social activities like playing board games and darts into math lessons: Shows how middle school math teachers are making math fun.
  3. STEM in Action: Teaching Channel Presents provides an hour of inspiration for middle school teachers. Students collaborate to complete engineering challenges requiring design, collaboration, calculations, and predictions.