Group items tagged

The 2012 West Point Bridge Design Contest will follow this schedule: Contest registration opens at 1:00 p.m. EST on January 17, 2012. The West Point Bridge Designer 2012 software will be available for download at this time as well. The Qualifying Round will be conducted from 1:00 p.m. EST on January 19, 2012 to 1:00 p.m. EST on March 1, 2012. The Semi-Final Round will be conducted from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT on March 30, 2012. To compete in the Semi-Final Round, you must be available at the designated time. The Final Round will be conducted on May 3, 2012, at West Point, New York. To compete in the Final Round, you must be able to travel to West Point and to compete at the designated time.

The three-round format of this contest is designed to provide all participants with the most valuable learning experience possible, while also ensuring that our contest winners are, in fact, the world's best virtual bridge designers. Students learn most effectively if they can share ideas with their teachers and fellow students. For this reason, there are no restrictions on collaboration during the Qualifying Round of the contest. However, during the Semi-Final and Final Rounds, contestants are not allowed to collaborate with anyone outside of their own teams. This restriction ensures that our winning teams earn their prizes through their own individual performance.

First… lets take a look at the free  (or almost free) resources provided below

1. Khan Academy As the site states… watch, practice… learn almost anything. There are over 3,100 videos in multiple STEM areas

You also may wish to look for videos or activities using the Common Core at any level of math by exploring Khan’s Common Core Page.

You will find science areas of earth science, physics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology.

How about health, medicine, engineering, social science, technology, mathematics, statistics, nature of science, and careers

All lessons at ScienceNetLinks  include; 1. Purpose (essential question explained) 2. Context (content knowledge and application to real world 3. Motivation (advance organizer serving as a entry event building on need to know) 4.  Development (specific lesson plans and scaffolding) 5.  Assessment (range of formative, summative, content specific, and 21st century) 6.  Extensions ( next steps, scaffolding, and differentiation) 7. Related resources (useful for related investigation).

Course Description This General Chemistry course covers the first nine chapters of the 12th Edition of Chemistry: The Central Science by Brown, LeMay, Bursten, Murphy, and Woodward text and is designed for science and engineering majors. Topics covered include: dimensional analysis, atomic structure, the mole, stoichiometry, chemical reactions, thermochemistry, electron configuration, periodicity, bonding, and molecular structure.