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UKEd Magazine with educational articles on pedagogy and teaching ideas. This issue has a STEM theme.

making a wave model

The website for the BBC Micro:Bit has lots of coding resources to use with and without a Micro:Bit device for both teachers and pupils, including program creators with a choice of programming languages.

As far as my work as a teacher and teacher trainer is concerned, I believe in challenging students and having high expectations of everyone in the classroom. This is coupled with appropriate support and guidance, which is then differentiated to meet pupils' and students' needs. To support my learners I provide relevant and specific praise and feedback, engaging and interesting tasks and activities, sound guidelines and instructions, solid question and answer sessions and clear, practical examples or modelling.

2) Alfie Kohn "In fact, there isn't even a positive correlation between, on the one hand, having younger children do some homework (vs. none), or more (vs. less), and, on the other hand, any measure of achievement. If we're making 12-year-olds, much less five-year-olds, do homework, it's either because we're misinformed about what the evidence says or because we think kids ought to have to do homework despite what the evidence says." Homework: An Unnecessary Evil? ... Findings from New Research 3) Tyler Cowen believed education can create potentially valuable workers by helping them improve their value by using smart machines and that these two are stronger complements than ever. Students may not be able to calculate like computers but we can teach students to be better readers of character and emotion and to be the best interpreters of the masses of information provided by the behavioral sciences and big data. Not all students need to do programming but they need to easily make the most of technology. He sees educators as motivators and online managers rather than as a professor. From Average is Over, 2013 by Tyler Cower Could a majority on workers hurt by Geekability add to A. Greenspan's fear of unrest?

Interesting voice simulator where you adjust the shape of the virtual mouth and voicebox to investigate how these work to produce sound.

"An interactive periodic table of elements showing common uses, properties, description and more."

"This is a great iPad, Android and web app which lets users design and play simple games by drawing the character and backgrounds."

"How does STEM education differ between these countries? Who is doing it 'best'? We've done our research and these are the findings"

"Discover and explore the micro world of cells with this well design flash resource. Browse interactive diagrams of various types of living cells and try the quiz to test your knowledge."

"Journey to the centre of the Earth and view the amazing facts about what can be found beneath our feet with this BBC microsite."

all about bodies of water and where they are located

Cool website from a professional developer in australia with a lot of links to websites he's tested.

Cool websites.

"Of course, I have always held the opinion that we are all still scientists in our own unique manner.  In light of that, I have chosen to write about how I think on this blog post.  There are two main types of blog posts on this site to 'demystify the life of a scientist'.  The first deals with large numbers or various statistics reported in the popular news with no real context provided."

"How many times do you hear a pupil fishing for the answer to the question you have just asked? How many hands go up to say, "Sir, I am Stuck!" and "Sir I can't do this!", or similar."

"Discover how and where gold is formed… it's out of this world!"

Coding ideas you can do without a device

"An interesting food chain/web simulator to help your pupils understand the interdependence within an ecosystem."