Resources

The Center for 21st Century Skills at EDUCATION CONNECTION Learning Management System is the online learning space for the Connecticut Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences ITEST project. This space is designed to support the delivery of the courses and programs developed to Connecticut High Schools. The site is powered by an open-source course management system, Moodle. While a user name and password are required access the courses listed, news posted on the front page of the site and some of the course materials can be viewed by guests.

The Cosmic Ray Observation Project (CROP) Curriculum, created as part of ITEST project Action at a Distance, provides information and resources to its school and staff participants to meet two goals: first, to study the patterns of arriving cosmic particles, and second, to interest high school students in careers in science (especially Physics). Through the use of detection equipment, CROP allows high schools to produce research quality data in a program that prepares their students for college level science and research.Provided on the CROP website are resources divided by school and staff

Through their focus on integrating computing and robotics into regular STEM classroom with hands-on project-based learning, the C-STEM Center, part of ITEST project Co-Robots for STEM Education in the 21st Century, has developed innovative teaching strategies, textbooks, and courseware.

GEAR-Tech-21, based on ITEST project National Robotics in 4-H: Workforce Skills for the 21st Century, teaches robotics, GPS, and GIS technologies to middle school youth through building and programming a robot, navigation, and mapmaking activities.The linked website provides step-by-step guides and resources and access to an innovative curriculum and educator’s guide for 300 instruction hours set over a two-year period. Additionally, those who sign up can gain access to GEAR-Tech-21 equipment rental.

NetSci High, also known as ITEST project Network Science for the Next Generation, shares its resources used as part of the project on its webpage. Resources include a "Rookie's Guide to Network Science," a number of interactive online visualizations, articles and publications, and NetLogo and Network Interactives downloads.

As part of ITEST project From Learning to Research (L2R), teachers from both cohorts one and two met to discuss needed resources for the classroom to aid with the development of locally-relevant climate research projects.

The Middle Schoolers Out to Save the World (MSOSW) curriculum uses data gathered by students to develop optimum scenarios for conserving energy and reducing the global production of greenhouse gases.

The inspiration for d.loft STEM (also known as ITEST project Design Loft STEM Learning Program) is the "Design for the Other 90% Movement,” which consists of engineers, designers, scientists, technologists, architects, and mathematicians engaged in designing low-cost innovative solutions for large portion of the world’s population who do not have access to basic services and products.Design Thinking is an approach to learning that builds students' creative confidence. DIVE In! is a middle school curriculum that integrates STEM learning activities and the design thinking process. Inspired by

The Waksman Student Scholars Program (WSSP), also known as ITEST project Conducting Authentic Molecular Biology and Genomics Research in High Schools, provides opportunities for high school students and their teachers to conduct an authentic research project in molecular biology and bioinformatics and publish their findings. Resources used and developed as part of this project can be found by clicking on the link. On the WSSP site, one can find teacher and student notes, games, powerpoint files, problem sets and answer keys, videos, a DNA sequency translator, DNA apps, equipment and supply