Find STEM resources at BioED Online
February 3, 2010
We had the LEARN NC staff retreat last week, and one of the subjects that received a good deal of discussion was efforts to promote STEM education resources. Seeing as we’re not scientists here at Instructify, the best way we can promote STEM is to shine our light on groups of scientists who are fighting the good fight. In that spirit, we direct your attention to BioED Online, offered by the good folks at Baylor University, is an online repository of lesson plans, teaching resources, full blown presentations and interactive contests for students.
All the materials are aligned to academic standards, available for PDF download, and presentations are usually broken into components so if you wanted to use a slide or image from a presentation, they are available separately. Of particular interest are the presentations on teaching strategies in science, which might be extremely useful for beginning teachers in the science field, as well as the laboratory techniques section for student instruction and review purposes. As always, this is 100 percent free, and even if it covers topics you know well, BioED might have multimedia components ready for use that might not be available to every school to produce on their own.
Related stuff:
Learn about penguins and the environment at Penguinscience
Punnett squares made easy with The Biology Project tutorial
Dragon DNA and other genetics fun: Genetics Web Lab Directory
