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Check out the  Promoting STEM Through Literature project/books ! Teachers can use these resources to integrate literature and STEM/Maker activities.  A Design Thinking workbook for students to use is one of the resources. Current Book List: The Secret Subway - Shana Corey Crayon Man - Natascha Biebow and Steven Salerno The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid – Jeanette Winter How to Build a Hug - Amy Guglielmo & Jacqueline Tourville Ada’s Violin - Susan Hood Balloons Over Broadway - Melissa Sweet Beauty and the Beak - Deborah Lee Rose The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer Claymates - Dev Petty The Most Magnificent Thing - Ashley Spires The Marvelous Thing That Came From a Spring - Gilbert Ford Papa’s Mechanical Fish - Candace Fleming One Plastic Bag - Miranda Paul Ticktock Banneker’s Clock - Shana Keller Twenty-One Elephants - April Jones Prince Whoosh! - Chris Barton

One of the few blogs I read with regularity is A.J. Juliani's Blog - it's one of only a couple I get delivered to my inbox! His newest blog post poses a challenge - one that is open to ANY teacher!  I encourage you to check it out and think about stepping up to the challenge with a group of your students.  I've included some highlights below - if you would like full details, check out the original blog post here: Creating a School (on Mars) from Scratch . The hashtag #MARSchallenge with be used to share out what students are designing, making, and building this month.  If nothing else - follow along to see what others are creating! Image from A.J. Juliani Blog - used with permission. From A.J. Juliani's blog: This challenge is open to any teacher and group of students in a K-12 education setting. We provide lesson plans, student notebooks, power point presentation for each lesson, and a framework (the LAUNCH Cycle) for your students to tackle this e...

Free webinars offered on September 28 , 2016 at 10:00 am OR 2:00 pm   Register NOW for this LIVE event to learn how to find ALL products fast & stretch your schools dollars by using the REMC SAVE Bid Project. Registration:  10:00 am session: http://goo.gl/YP51Kl 2:00 pm session: http://goo.gl/wyb0am Each attendee will be entered to WIN 1 of 2 Gift certificates from School Specialty and Office Depot for a REMC SAVE Bid project item. For regions who attend as a team, attendee lists must be emailed to remcbids@remc.org to be entered for a gift certificate prize drawing.  

From the Michigan Department of Education - Each fall, Project Tomorrow, an internationally recognized education nonprofit organization, facilitates the  Speak Up Research Project  – and we would like to invite you to learn more about how your school and district can participate this year.   Speak Up 2015 is the best way for education leaders to learn about the views and ideas of K-12 students, parents and teachers regarding digital learning, workplace skill development, STEM education and professional development.  It is easy to participate in Speak Up – there are no fees or costs – everything is 100% free.  Last year over 521,000 K-12 students, parents and educators completed a Speak Up survey.  And 8,200 schools and 2,600 districts received free reports with their local data plus national findings for comparatives. Why use instructional funds for data collection when Speak Up is already available to every K-12 school and district?...