TEEAM Area Meeting

A reminder there will be a TEEAM Kick-Off area meeting at Gray New Gloucester High School at 5:00pm this Thursday the 25th. If you are planning on attending and have not replied to let me know, please do so, so that I will know how many to expect. 

I would like everyone who is planning on attending the meeting to bring a lesson, activity, or a project that they would like to share. It is my hope to start the year off by sharing these items, and providing the opportunity for everyone to learn something new that they can take back to their schools and try in their own classroom.

Draft Agenda:

Refreshments

Gray New Gloucester High School - Dave Kramlich

Tug of Maine (war) Challenge- John Kraljic 

Lesson/activity share- Andy Davidson + others

Directions to Gray-New Gloucester High Shop. The High School is located on Libby Hill Road, across from the Hannaford's Store on Route 26 in Gray. Turn onto Libby Hill road, take the first right and keep bearing right as if you are going towards the athletic fields. As you enter the parking lot, look to the left for the wood shop dust collector and/or gym entrance. The shops are on your right as you walk towards the gym entrance. 

Dave Kramlich

Vex Curriculum Lesson Content

For those of you using Vex, this may be of interest?

·         Vex Curriculum Lesson Content This section includes the lesson content for the Autodesk VEX Robotics Curriculum. The curriculum is divided up into 12 primary Units and 1 optional Unit. Students will start off learning about engineering and engineering problem solving. They will be given introductions to the VEX Robotics Design System and Autodesk Inventor. In Unit 5 students will be presented with an engineering challenge; they will need to build a robot to play a sport-like game. After this, the rest of the curriculum walks students through the design of their robot while presenting them with relevant STEM and Robotics principles. At the end of the course, students compete head-to-head with their robots.

Mike Fitzgerald, DTE

Education Associate, Technology Education

State Advisor, Technology Student Association

Delaware Department of Education

Collette Education Resource Center

35 Commerce Way, Suite #1

Dover, DE 19904

Leveraging Science Practices

Leveraging science practices with technology tools by scitechframework

In anticipation of (and excitement about) the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the development of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), many educators in Maine are already integrating some of the Practices into current instruction. Here's a chance to look more deeply at the 8 Science and Engineering Practices from theFramework for K-12 Science Education.

Join MLTI Integration Mentor, Phil Brookhouse, for one of these workshops.  Phil will provide skills and strategies for supporting the Practices in your science classroom. Phil and I designed these session to explore the practices and expand on teaching and learning ideas for the integration of the Practices. Register now for a workshop session in your local area, bring your MLTI laptop and learn about some great new tools and approaches.

Please visit http://maine.gov/mlti/events/ for a list of all events and to find links to online registration.

Some locations are being finalized and will be added as scheduled. If you have a space available for use, please contact Juanita Dickson.
We are trying to break up Aroostook County & Washington County into a southern & northern region to make drives shorter.  We hope you find this helpful!

Leveraging Technology with the Science Practices

• October 18, 2012: Woodland Jr Sr HS
• October 23, 2012: Lewiston High School
• October 30, 2012 : York Region
• October 31, 2012: Washington Region (Southern)
• November 5, 2012: Penquis Valley HS
• November 7, 2012: Presque Isle
• November 13, 2012: Gorham Schools
• November 20, 2012: Aroostook Region (Southern)
• November 27, 2012: Midcoast Region
• November 29, 2012: Kennebec Region
• December 4, 2012: Cumberland Region

October 2012

Service-Learning Mini-Grants Available for New England Projects!

KIDS Consortium is pleased to announce that applications for the Dara Jeanne Kaufman Fund are now being accepted.   The Fund provides mini-grants for service-learning projects in the New England states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont).  This Fund, inspired by Dara Kaufman’s life, is meant to encourage young people in New England to take action to make their schools and communities caring, supportive and environmentally sustainable places. The fund will support K-12 service-learning projects that focus on issues that were important to Dara.

Who May Apply: K-12 classrooms, after-school programs, or community-based programs that wish to use service-learning as a pathway to solve a problem and improve their community. We accept proposals from students, teachers, and community organizations.

Amount: Up to $350.00 may be requested.

To learn more: http://www.kidsconsortium.org/minigrants.php

FREE STEM and Service-Learning Guide from KIDS Consortium

Download your FREE electronic copy of Integrating Scientific Practices and Service-Learning: Engaging Students in STEM here:  http://www.kidsconsortium.org/stem_service_learningguide.php

The Guide was developed as a result of a collaboration with the Maine Mathematics ad Science Alliance and schools around New England.  Through the project, called the “Youth as Citizen Scientists” initiative, more than 1,000 middle-school students at 10 sites across New England and New York worked with their teachers and community partners to address environmental issues (such as waste reduction and energy efficiency) in their schools.  Read more about the initiative, including links to descriptions of the actual projects implemented by students at http://www.kidsconsortium.org/stem.php.