New Cybersecurity STEM Resource Guide!

Download our free Cybersecurity Resource Guide for teachers! Helping students understand cybersecurity risks and learn strategies to safeguard online safety is important both at home and in the classroom. Teachers play a crucial role in educating students about online safety, but it can be hard to know where to start. Science Buddies has Lesson Plans for classroom activities that help teachers lead meaningful classroom exploration and discussion with students about cybersecurity. When you pair a hands-on activity with a look at relevant STEM careers, you also help students see the connections between real-world challenges and future career paths! To make teachers aware of our cybersecurity materials for K-12 classrooms, we have created a handy, one-page cybersecurity resource guide. Download, bookmark, or share this guide today! Development of the Cybersecurity Resource Guide was supported by Symantec Corporation.

DXC Codes - A Scratch Coding Challenge

Enter the DXC Codes Challenge! The DXC Foundation wants to inspire a passion for computer sciences in today’s youth through a fun and engaging IT challenge - DXC Codes . DXC Codes invites students to use Scratch, a free coding platform for beginners, to solve a programming challenge. This year's challenge will be announced February 1, 2018, and final entries will be due April 27, 2018. The challenge is open to students from around the world, ages 10-14, working in teams of three.  There are terrific prizes to be won, and registration for the challenge is now open! Learn more about the challenge and prizes and sign up at dxc.technology/dxccodes.

A Space-bending Movie for Science Class!

Pair this new movie from Fresh Films with a hands-on STEM activity In Alternate Universe: A Rescue Mission, two sisters open a wormhole to a parallel universe with a school science project. Will they be able to find and rescue their parents? Physics, intrigue, and an evil villain--it's all here in a feature film starring Steve Guttenberg and with guest appearances from Harry Lennix and Congressman Bill Foster. Pair the movie with the hands-on Model of a Black Hole activity and talk about how wormholes and black holes are related. The movie is available on DVD and Blu-ray or for digital viewing from iTunes,  Amazon , Google Play, and other digital sources. See When Your Science Project Opens a Wormhole for more information.

Brainstorm Environmental Solutions with STEM

Solving real-world STEM problems Two new Lesson Plans help teachers encourage hands-on brainstorming and problem solving through engineering activities with a real-world environmental focus. Perfect for schools interested in Maker-inspired exploration, the Environmental Monitoring (grades 6-8) and Protecting Nature with Technology (grades 9-12) Lesson Plans challenge students to consider human impact upon the environment and then to brainstorm and develop sensor-based circuits that can help monitor and/or conserve resources. Both Lesson Plans are NGSS-aligned and have been developed to allow a range of exploration using the Science Buddies Sensors Kit (available from Home Science Tools).

Development of these Lesson Plans for exploration of engineering related to real-world issues was supported by the Motorola Foundation.

Lesson Plans for Classroom Exploration

Indoor STEM fun with Google's Science Journal App How can you most effectively transmit a signal from one side of the room to the other? In the Send that Signal! activity, students use the Science Journal app to experiment with light, sound, and vibration. Which will work best to transmit a simple message to someone across the room?

The NGSS-aligned Lesson Plan (for 4th grade) contains background material, discussion questions, overview and in-activity videos, a worksheet, and assessment materials. This interactive activity is a great way to introduce students to Google's free Science Journal app, available for both iOS and Android. Science Buddies Lesson Plans are supported by the Cisco Foundation. Science Buddies is proud to be a partner of Google's Making & Science initiative.

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