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Scholastic: You Innovate 21
21st Century Skills and STEM together? Sure! netTrekker makes that connection and supplementary resources quick and easy to find. For example, do a keyword search for “science”. Check out the Subject Refinement Menu and look for “21st Century Skills” in the list. When you refine by that choice, the resulting resources are based on the curricular area of Science and focused on the 21st Century Skills framework. Today’s Site of the Day, You Innovate 21, is a great example of this example search in the high school tab:
This multimedia website helps students explore the relevance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) topics in their lives today, and encourages them to consider a career in STEM in the future. After launching “You Innovate 21,” students will be taken to an animated city block where they can read an interactive graphic novel, view museum exhibits, enter virtual city shops, and answer brain teasers – all while applying and expanding their STEM knowledge!
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National Park Service: Roadside Attractions
Do you consider giant statues of Paul Bunyan and buildings shaped like milk bottles monuments to the American culture? Doing a search for “American Monuments,” and using the Maps/Charts refinement (under the Learning Aides Refinement Menu) will take you to a set of resources that help illustrate these truly American icons. Today’s Site of the Day features one of these resources from our National Park Service on Roadside Attractions.
This captivating site explores American’s love of road trips and includes critical thinking questions and eye-catching pictures. Discover funny and unique roadside attractions throughout America. This site is bound to entertain your class, and you!
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Login to netTrekker before midnight (eastern) today to access the netTrekker Site of the Day and add it to your “My Portfolio” for easy future reference. After midnight, the new Site of the Day will go up and you’ll have to look for today’s site using netTrekker’s search tool. Need help with My Portfolio? Easy, handy instructions can be found here.
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I Want to Fly!
Drill down into Science topics like Physics and you would think that the resources might get a little “dull”. Not so! Check out Science > Physics > Principles of Motion > Force. Inside this area is a wonderful example of how students can be engaged by some of these complicated STEM topics. Check it out in today’s Site of the Day - I Want to Fly!
This cartoon based interactive site uses a character named Toby to introduce many physics concepts including the principles of motion and force. Toby the wizard wants to fly! Learn how three items can help him accomplish this goal. Real world information and video can be found on this site, helping to further explain the properties of flight.
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Login to netTrekker before midnight (eastern) today to access the netTrekker Site of the Day and add it to your “My Portfolio” for easy future reference. After midnight, the new Site of the Day will go up and you’ll have to look for today’s site using netTrekker’s search tool. Need help with My Portfolio? Easy, handy instructions can be found here.
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Academy of Achievement
Students learn and achieve in many different ways, as you know. Now you can help your students see the value in their own approach. Using biographies of great role models to show examples of different styles and approaches to achievement is easy with netTrekker!
Two approaches will help you with this initiative, depending on your own style. First, check out the Teacher Tools area. Teacher Tools is full of great learning styles and strategies, and will help you address that old but new again area of character education:
Teacher Tools > Learning Styles and Strategies > Character Education
Next, use the keyword of “Achievement” with a refinement of Biographies (under the Learning Aides Menu) to get sites about great leaders and how they have achieved. One great example is Today’s Site of the Day, the Academy of Achievement! This resource offers biographical sketches of hundreds of modern “leaders, visionaries, and pioneers” from around the world, and from the fields of the arts, business, public service, science and exploration, and sports. Learn both what makes these men and women unique and what common traits have placed them in this list. Be inspired and challenged by their lives and deeds to see how you might change the world, too. You can even search the list based on some of your own qualities to find people to whom you might look as mentors or role models!
- Click here to login to netTrekker and access the Site of the Day.
Login to netTrekker before midnight (eastern) today to access the netTrekker Site of the Day and add it to your “My Portfolio” for easy future reference. After midnight, the new Site of the Day will go up and you’ll have to look for today’s site using netTrekker’s search tool. Need help with My Portfolio? Easy, handy instructions can be found here.
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