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Why are there so few women pilots in America? In fact, only six-percent of those holding pilot certificates are female. Why is the number of women pilots so abysmally low? Thanks to research grant support partially provided by the Wolf Aviation Fund, some of the answers are to be found right here at "Teaching Women to Fly."

Free physics lesson plans - aid to online teaching/online education

The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators There are many teachers who want to start using technology in their classrooms, but just aren't sure where to start. That's why I got together ten prominent ed tech bloggers, teachers, and school administrators to create The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators. In this book there introductions to more than six dozen web tools for K-12 teachers. Additionally, you will find sections devoted to using Skype with students, ESL/ELL, blogging in elementary schools, social media for educators, teaching online, and using technology in alternative education settings."

"Salman Khan, the lovable math nerd behind the much celebrated Khan Academy, in which students teach themselves math and other subjects via online videos, then work with their teachers individually on the bits they're struggling with."

Math activities proven successful with learning disabled students are presented, along with a description of factors that influence struggling special needs students. "

"helping educators make science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, come alive for learners. Each experience and resource offered through Teaching From Space is intended to be unique and accessible and to provide real-life connections to the world of STEM. "

"Teaching and Learning About Hurricanes"

our responsibility to teach kids how to find and research information, how to judge its veracity, and when it's time to ask for a grownup's help. I spoke to Daniel Russell, Google's "search anthropologist" in charge of Search Quality and User Happiness (yes, really), who brought to light some important tips you may not have known.

"Common Core State Standards. The standards clearly communicate what is expected of students at each grade level. This will allow our teachers to be better equipped to know exactly what they need to help students learn and establish individualized benchmarks for them. The Common Core State Standards focus on core conceptual understandings and procedures starting in the early grades, thus enabling teachers to take the time needed to teach core concepts and procedures well-and to give students the opportunity to master them."

"The Glean ComboCoin tool provides multiple levels of problem difficultly and works with classrooms at various grade levels. It's a fun tool to integrate with your teaching of fundamental--and typically serious--multiplication skills, including the distributive and associative properties of multiplication. Lesson Ideas and Classroom Activities: ComboCoin Jeopardy - large group (with a projector): Have students work individually or in teams to come up with combinations as quickly as possible. When they have a combination, they raise their hands and enter it into the ComboCoin game board. Each time a team finds a new combination, they receive a point."

"Web Mentors Teachers Helpline: How-To Articles: Teach High School Science"

"MathsLinks is a directory of 300+ useful objects found on the web for teaching Maths. This site aims to not only collate the best maths activities on the web, but present them in a meaningful way."

Title: Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That "Kills Math" Using Data Viz Context: System complexity doesn't have to be "just the way it is". We are designers and it is our job to make things easier to use. That said, it takes a designer with huge balls to tackle a problem the size of math.

games that discover optimal learning pathways for STEM education.' If you've got kids, check out their first game, Refraction http://games.cs.washington.edu/refraction/. It teaches multiplying fractions without kids drilling on multiplying fractions, almost like education is a side effect of game play.

"AeroLab lessons feature simple foam and balsa aircraft as tools to teach the concepts of force and motion, potential/kinetic energy and centripetal force. The activities allow students to practice important math skills to determine average speed and distance flown. All labs are aligned with middle school physical science and math standards and are "S.T.E.M. Compliant." The labs feature conceptual activities in the physical sciences to provide opportunities for students to make predictions, collect data, graph results and draw conclusions, as well as participate in lessons designed for directed and guided inquiry."

The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the 2013-2014 Fellowship Year. The Einstein Fellowship Program is available to current K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educators with a demonstrated excellence in teaching and leadership.

"A FREE games-based math teaching resource"

"Tunnel Through! Contributed by: Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder Photo shows two men looking at metal prongs coming through the side of a mountain with a crumbling rock pile in front of them. Workers look at the TBM cutterhead after it reached daylight in April 1997, after a 2.5-year journey excavating through Yucca Mountain, NV. TBM is a tunnel boring machine. Students apply their knowledge about mountains and rocks to transportation engineering, with the task of developing a model mountain tunnel that simulates the principles behind real-life engineering design. Student teams design and create model tunnels through a clay mountain, working within design constraints and testing for success; the tunnels must meet specific design requirements and withstand a certain load. "

"Helicopter Drop by Bryce Hixson Take a single strip of copy paper and make three cuts and five folds to create a ready-to-fly helicopter. You can experiment with surface area and friction, and have a lot of fun adapting the design. Great way to teach the effect of gravity and friction on a falling object, experiment with torque and changing forces, and open the door to imagination and engineering."

""Engineering Principles" description of the concepts, a "Thoughtful Questions" sheet, and an unit outline for teaching the course with a hands-on component. "