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Hi there!
I'm a 3rd grade teacher that is making the jump to becoming the science specialist at my school. I will be teaching all K-5 students at my school. Each class will come to me for 50 minutes a week. My school has very little in terms of resources and equipment. My principal has told me that she is willing to spend the money to help get me started (within reason of course). Any suggestions, especially on websites that I can utilize to order equipment and possibly websites to use with students on an interactive whiteboard? Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated!
Chris
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Christopher,
I recently put together a collection of websites for elementary science. I am attaching it. I hope it helps. It is the best sites I could find.
Betty
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Engineering is Elementary is WONDERFUL!
www.eie.org
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Thanks for that list of websites, Betty! I love adding new websites to my arsenal of resources. I also second what Cori said about Engineering is Elementary! I wrote a grant last year to obtain some of their units after learning about them at the NSTA conference in San Antonio and have never seen my students so engaged.
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Hello Christopher,
I am in a similar situation. I teach Literacy through Science for grades K though 5 at my school. I'm also looking for resources as well as first day activities. I will look into EIE.
- Elizabeth Cooke
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Thank you Margaret!! I have a SMARTBoard. I forgot about looking there.
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Chris, in addition to supplies and resources, have you checked out the NSTA Journal Science & Children? They have some of the most wonderful activities for elementary grades. Most of them do not need very many 'supplies' that need to be purchased and are already vetted by other teachers. You can find a wealth of things there for you, already categorized and grade level identifies, to investigate.
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Chris,
A staples...
Framework for K-12 Science Education
NGSS standards
What Are They Thinking? ( Page Keeley )
From the lens of the K-5 Science Coordinator
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What a fabulous opportunity to create amazing learning experiences for your students! We have lots of ideas and resources for integrating engineering into science lessons. Check us out at :
http://www.getcaughtengineering.com
www.facebook.com/GetCaughtEngineering
http://www.pinterest.com/getcaughtengin/
Wendy and Cheryl
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Hi,
I just went through my first year as a K-5 Specialist after years of high/middle school science teaching. It's great but I was in your same boat. I used the following often and in a variety of ways. I do a mix of all four STEM branches w/ a lot of the science to reinforce/support the classroom teachers.
Discovery Ed-www.discoveryeducation.com
Code.org
eGFI
Engineering is Elementary-http://www.eie.org/eie-curriculum/curriculum-units
Practical Action-great STEM challenges from Europe http://practicalaction.org/beattheflood
Project Learning Tree-https://www.plt.org/
NASA & How Stuff Works were frequent go too's.
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I am Student teaching this semester as well, those are some great resources that I plan on using to help me!!
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thanks for starting such a great post! I am student teaching in 3rd grade math and science and I am looking also for resources, so this has helped me out a ton! THANKS
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