NYS STEM Education Collaborative

Useful Links and Information

May 11, 2012

External STEM Website Links - STEM Documents - Other STEM Organizations - STEM related Videos

External STEM Education Website Links

1. Have questions about Common Core standards, data-driven instruction or teacher and leader effectiveness? This is your one-stop shop. http://engageny.org/
2. NYS Standards Review Timetable
3. NYS P-12 Common Core Learning Standards
4. 2011 May 12 Memo from John B. King, Jr. SENIOR DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR P-12 EDUCATION "Our endeavors across the Regents Reform Agenda and the Race to the Top Assurance Areas (Standards and Assessments, Data Systems, Great Teachers and Leaders, and Turning Around the Lowest-Achieving Schools) and Priorities (STEM and Early Childhood) remain the centerpieces for our work. As we develop tools and resources around these initiatives, I will be corresponding with you to alert you to important updates on our webpage, alert you to learning opportunities and events, make requests, and ask for your feedback and thought partnership."
5. NYSED/NYSTEA Summit Action Steps
6. NYS Career Zone: STEM for Teens
7. Rochester STEM High School
8. Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science
   • STEM Teaching Institutes
   • The STEM Blog
9. NYU - MST Lesson Plans and Activities
10. Empire State STEM Learning Network
• YouTube channel for the Empire State STEM Learning Network

Outside NYS

1. A multimedia package developed by public television station Western Reserve PBS, consisting of 8 instructional television programs, CD-ROM activities, DVD, Web site, and a teacher's guide. Designed, developed, and classroom tested by teachers in Northeast Ohio.

   The lessons are based on the Soap Box Derby, an American institution that intrigues youngsters. Funded through a grant from the Ohio Educational Telecommunications Commission in support of Ohio SchoolNet, Masters of Gravity is an example of how Western Reserve PBS is helping educate Ohio's youth.

2. STEMReports.com brings you the latest research for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. We partner with groups like the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the National Science Education Leadership Association (NSELA) and the Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) to bring you insightful research.
3. NCTM Letters and Testimony regarding STEM
4. ITEA's STEM Connections e-Newsletter
5. Journal of STEM Education
6. National Governor's Association - STEM Education site
7. States' Career Clusters - STEM
8. National Conference of State Legislatures Magazine: Staying Competitive
9. Women of NASA
10. New Perspectives: Technology Teacher Education and Engineering Design
11. STEM Education Caucus for Members of Congress
12. Engineering by Design
13. Fab Lab - from MIT
14. Buckminster Fuller Institute
15. National Center for Technological Literacy
16. Edutopia - STEM Resources - (Gearge Lucas Education Foundation)
17. The STEM Pipeline from the Futures Channel
18. PBS Teachers STEM Education Resource Center
19. PBS - Nova Series: "Making Stuff" An amazing look at current technologies shaping our world. Also viewable online.
20. Project Based Learning Online
21. Buck Institute for Education
22. Engineering is Elementary
23. STEM as a Curriculum: An Experiential Approach by Jan Morrison & Raymond V. "Buzz" Bartlett
24. The Massachusetts STEM Intiative
25. From the SouthEast Education Network (SEEN). A 3-part article by HAYES BLAINE LANTZ, JR., ED.D.
    • STEM Education: What form? What function?
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • Part 3

Editing suggestions and constructive comments should be e-mailed to: Bob Hazen (AMTNYS)