Lauritzen Gardens Offering a Part-Time Educator Position
Image: Lauritzen Gardens Garden Educator Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha’s Botanical Center, is a growing public garden located on a 100-acre site overlooking the Missouri River Valley. Visit www.lauritzengardens.org for more information about the indoor and outdoor displays. Lauritzen Gardens offers exciting opportunities for people to be closely involved with the challenges…
Underwater Robotics Curriculum
Image: waterbotics.org WaterBotics, from the Stevens Institute of Technology, is an innovative, underwater robotics curriculum that can be used in traditional classroom settings or in afterschool and summer camp programs. Using the curriculum, teams of students work together to design, build, program, test, and redesign underwater robots made of LEGO and other components. Students…
Game to Develop Understanding of Calculus Concepts
Image: triseum.com Created by the game developer Triseum, which grew out of the LIVE Lab at Texas A&M University, the learning game Variant: Limits is designed to assist high school and college students with the intuitive understanding of calculus concepts, which they must apply to save a planet from powerful geomagnetic storms. The game features an immersive 3D…
What It’s Like to Go to Space Camp—as an Adult
Image: Natioanal Geographic The debut of NASA’s Adult Space Academy means you’re one small step closer to achieving your space-travel dreams. There’s only one place in the solar system where you can wear a flight suit, experience weightlessness, and work on rockets, all without entering orbit: Space Camp. And, until recently,…
Spring into Learning with New edWebinars!
Image: edWeb Build Confident Communicators in the Classroom Thursday, Mar. 29 at 4 p.m. Eastern Time REGISTER Presented by Katrina Erickson, OTR; and Amy Prechel, OTR Visit Crayons, Pencils, and Keyboards Bringing Creativity to STEAM with Drawing and Coding Thursday, Mar. 29 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time REGISTER Presented by Charlotte…
ACT STEM Webinar
Image: ACT ACT has a webinar called, STEM Talent: Increasing Demand, Decreasing Supply. Presenters, Gretchen Guffy, Shannon Hayes, and Crispin Gavatt will discuss how the demand for STEM is increasing while student interest is not, and how that gap can be addressed. Learn more at: https://pages2.act.org/post-webinar-stem-talent.html?cid=email:marketo:b2b-k12-higher-ed-none-educator:03232018-domestic-CM1730–mkto5677–organic—-marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=marketo&utm_name=b2b-k12-higher-ed-none-educator&utm_content=03232018-domestic-CM1730–mkto5677–organic-button—marketing&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RObU5UTTJZams0TVRreCIsInQiOiJaalpwZWpiOEhhdWVSN2tRY1o4bHo1d1pUMlRsSWJKY1JSb1gwd29VN0V1eFN5UjRQWDB2Ryt5VFF6UXNpN01HRys1RkZSWTJZeGRSeVFLMTlpT0hnYldXcmJCMTM1QlRFb2c5cHdzXC9mM0ZjbGJ6Qzl4ZUFhRURnVnh5TVFYM3QifQ%3D%3D
Check out this Monday Morning Musing from Lindy Hoyer
Play is Serious Learning There is a four letter word that relates to learning, and depending on your level of understanding, this word can spark a positive or negative reaction. Play for children is learning. Fred Rogers has a well-known quote to this fact, “Play is often talked about as…
The Nebraska SciFest Essay Contest
Make your wildest dreams come true. Write an essay related to the keynote speaker, Ginger Zee, and win a chance to meet her. This year’s SciFest essay question is: At age 8, keynote speaker Ginger Zee knew she wanted to study meteorology. What science career do you want to pursue…
Fascinating Ideas found in Active Learning
Over the past two decades, numerous studies have explored the effectiveness of active learning in the college classroom. Active learning uses activities and instruction designed to enhance conceptual cognition; students become enthusiastic participants in their own education. They — not the instructor — control their own learning. More than just…
EON Reality VR Innovation Academy
New course in virtual reality being offered! Housed on the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) campus in Omaha, Nebraska, the EON Reality VR Innovation Academy (VRIA) is an exceptional opportunity for candidates interested in learning how to work in the exciting field of 3D/AR/VR. The EON Reality VR Innovation Academy…
