Funding & Recognition
Funding That Suits Your Needs
GetEdFunding is a grant-finding resource sponsored by CDW•G that is dedicated to helping educators, schools, and other institutions identify sources for the funding they need in budget-tight times. Explore the sample funding finds and experience the depth, breadth, and ease of use of GetEdFunding. You do not need to register in order to see the details of these opportunities. Start uncovering funds now at GetEdFunding.com and stay up to date on fast-approaching deadlines, new opportunities, and tips on creating standout grant proposals.
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Funding & Recognition
2023 ACS-Hach Chemistry Grants
Since 2008, more than 700 high school chemistry teachers have received
American Chemical Society (ACS)-Hach High School Chemistry Classroom Grants to support ideas that enhance classroom learning, foster student development, and reveal the wonders of chemistry.
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Funding & Recognition
2023 Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM) Award
REALM is a program sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to publicly recognize excellent literary magazines produced by students with the support of their teachers. REALM is designed to encourage all schools to develop literary magazines that celebrate the art and craft of writing.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
SPOTLIGHT! On Teaching with “The Force”
May the fourth be with you! Celebrate Star Wars Day (May 4, 2023) in the classroom with these free Star Wars teaching ideas for science and engineering, music and mindfulness, physical education—and more!
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
From Primers to Fairy Tales—Historical Children’s Literature
From primers meant to teach spelling and math, to fairy tales, historical children’s books tell historians and modern readers a great deal about the mores of a given time.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Tool to Empower Children to Tell Their Stories Through Music
Getting children to compose music has always been seen as difficult, a skill reserved for those who have mastered theory and acquired sufficient instrumental skill. With Hyperscore, children can express their innate musicianship literally in minutes, regardless of their level or prior music experience.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Teaching Unit on Emmett Till, Racial Justice, and Civic Participation
What can we learn from the murder of Emmett Till as we work to achieve racial justice in America today? Teachers can use this newly released
teaching unit from
Facing History & Ourselves to tackle this important essential question with their students.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
SPOTLIGHT! On Computational Thinking
With the help of computational thinking resources, students will be deciphering problems and forming solutions in no time. By learning to solve problems using this technical mindset, students are preparing for bright futures where they can combine creativity with computational thinking for ultimate innovation and success.
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Professional Growth
Summer Children’s Lit Book Club for K–8 Teachers
The BookmarkED 2023 Book Club is a one-of-a-kind online experience bringing together authors and artists with K–12 teachers to explore literacy in a whole new way. The event will be held from July 1 to 22, 2023, and everything is online in a user-friendly community platform.
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Professional Growth
Immersive Learning Experiences Powered by AI and VR Tools
Coursera has announced the addition of several
ChatGPT-powered tools to its learning platform, including a
virtual coach that has the capability to give feedback, answer questions, summarize learning materials, and provide career preparation.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Tool for Making Things Using Machine Learning Technologies
Machine learning forms the basis for the exploding field of
artificial intelligence.
Machine Learning for Kids is a
free educational tool that introduces students to machine learning by providing
hands-on experiences for training machine learning systems and building things with them.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Free Makerspace Library of Hands-On Projects
TinkRWorks’ TinkRpedia has everything educators need to get started with
STEM/STEAM Project-based Learning. Teachers can browse the educator-curated
Makerspace Lesson Library, featuring
free, hands-on projects that cover a variety of subjects and difficulty levels.
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Mobile Learning
Community Program Tracking Seasonal Changes in Plants and Animals
Phenology is a fascinating study of the interconnectedness among plants, animals, and climate. It concentrates on the timing of different life-cycle changes that occur throughout the year. With Nature’s Notebook, teachers and their students can join more than 15,000 other naturalists across the nation in taking the pulse of our planet.
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