PBLWorks has partnered with Students Rebuild, a program of the Bezos Family Foundation, to create an English, math and science unit for the upcoming Hunger Challenge. Students participating in the challenge research hunger and malnutrition and develop potential solutions to these issues.
Because high school offers most students their last chance at free education, one Washington district has taken its apprenticeship programs to a higher level.
Consider the speedometer in your new self-driving electric vehicle. The cable-operated dial in the gas-guzzling clunker you just traded is now digital. Easier to read for you, but a harder fix for today's automotive students.
College students staff nightly homework hotlines for high school and middle school students who math and science help. Rather than serving up the answers, tutors aim to guide the younger students toward solving problems themselves.
This year's grantees are focused on the development of a range of tools such as a platform to evaluate scholastic esports programs, an augmented reality sandbox for early learning STEM instruction, and a web-based tool to assess communication skills that students need for college and career readiness.
As science education has expanded in recent years to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards—which include project-based learning and multidisciplinary studies in technology, engineering and mathematics—so have the corresponding science fairs.
The Common Core literacy standards were intended to shift instruction toward building knowledge and away from illusory reading comprehension "skills." But many teachers have stuck with "skills" and added nonfiction—a losing combination.
