The National STEM Centre houses the largest open collection of resources for teachers of science, design and technology, engineering and mathematics in the UK. Alongside contemporary resource materials including print, multimedia, and practical resources, is a growing archive collection, which showcases several decades of curriculum development. Resources for use with early years to post-16 students are freely available as physical and eLibrary collections. The eLibrary currently contains over 4,000 teaching resources for the STEM subjects.
"Connecting best practices with technology to meet the Common Core Standards" Free registration
In your PowerUp Classroom, technology tools will support your use of research-based practices to meet your students' needs. Technology tools and resources can help you employ UDL principles to customize instruction and better meet the needs and abilities of each one of your students.
This basic keyboarding course provides structured lessons with visuals emphasizing left hand and right hand finger placement, with additional exercises to support two hand use.
This customizable writing template allows students to use MS Word's Voice Comment feature to audio record what they want to write, and then play it back as needed to remind themselves while typing. It includes an optional editing checklist for teachers to record audio cues for editing.
Grades 1-6
Mathematics vocabulary word wall cards provide a display of mathematics content words and associated visual cues to assist in vocabulary development. The cards should be used as an instructional tool for teachers and then as a reference for all students, particularly English learners and students with disabilities.
This keyboard lesson (first of a series) provides visuals and instructions emphasizing left hand and right hand finger placement, with keyboarding exercises that support two hand use.
k-12 grade levels
These comprehensive math vocabulary lists are based on the Common Core State Math Standards and are organized by grade level. The lists are also organized by the key K12 Common Core math content categories (geometry, measurement & data, etc.). These hundreds of academic vocabulary lists, comprised of thousands of key math terms, can be used with all twenty-five of VocabularySpellingCity's learning activities.
"Recognizing that CVI is the
leading cause of visual impairment among children and cognizant of the need for
highly qualified interventionists, four state deaf-blind projects embarked on a
ten-year collaboration known as the "Cortical Visual Impairment Community of
Practice". The Deaf-Blind Projects from Delaware, Maryland, Vermont, and West
Virginia developed and implemented an innovative and successful professional
development program which trained an interdisciplinary team of "CVI Mentors""
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