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The Scale-Up Program menu for the 2024-2025 academic year includes the following fourteen programs:
All About Balance
Watch your children become more curious and engaged as they actively explore the role of balance within the world of objects, and with their own bodies.
Artificial Intelligence
AI for K-12 Educators is a professional development series that provides educators with a high-level understanding of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) impact our society.
Blackbird Code
A collection of online curricula that teaches math or science through the lens of coding. Students write real, text-based programs which bring to life the core concepts they are learning.
Derivita Math
Platform maximizes the impact of your current math curriculum and increases student engagement in math.
Exploring and Connecting to Iowa’s Agriculture
Exploring and Connecting to Iowa’s Agriculture is a two-day professional development workshop that engages educators with agriculture professionals and classroom curriculum.
FUSE Studio
FUSE creates onramps to deeper STEAM engagement and encourages STEAM exploration through an innovative, challenge-based approach and studio-like environment.
Investigating Everyday Phenomena
A program designed to captivate young minds while demystifying real-world phenomena.
Making Innovative STEM Connections
This lesson design framework focuses around the idea that making and tinkering are ways to engage student’s minds and build conceptual understanding around academic content.
Positive Physics, Chemistry, Physical Science, Biology, Environmental Science & Engineering
An engaging, online lesson and problem bank. The site was designed to be accessible to students on any level from basic to AP.
Robo Wunderkind STEM Program
Offers easy-to-use building blocks and a series of age-appropriate coding apps that develop computational thinking skills and spark a curiosity for STEAM in young learners.
Spatial Vis: The First Step in Design for Engineering and Technology
A tool to teach freehand sketching and improve students’ spatial skills.
Storytime STEM-packs: STEM + Computer Science
Incorporate age-appropriate STEM+C concepts into children’s programming. Children collaboratively explain phenomena or solve the problem, thereby making sense of the STEM concept.
Teachley Math
Enhances K-5 core math curricula by building students’ conceptual understanding, fluency, and problem-solving skills across addition, subtraction, place value/base ten, multiplication, fractions, and measurement/data.
Turing Tumble
A revolutionary STEM game that teaches how computers work at a fundamental level. Students build marble-powered, mechanical computers to solve a series of structured logic puzzles using their own hands instead of a screen.
Timeline:
- February 28 at 4:59pm - Application closes
- April 8 - Awardees notified
- July 1, 2024 thru May 31, 2025 - Implementation
Other Resources:
Please contact Jeff Beneke at jeff.beneke@uni.edu or 319-273-7397 if you have any questions about the programs or the application process.
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