Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

A repository of standards-based units and lessons created by Kentucky Adult Education instructors.

This meta-analysis review from the field of discipline-based education research contains insights on how students learn science and engineering and how to design instructional strategies that build on these insights.

This report revises and reinvigorates previously developed goals from the 2011 National Research Council (NRC) report titled Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in STEM to expand the STEM workforce by targeting individuals who are least likely to pursue STEM careers.

This webpage from Stanford University is a collection of several resources for science educators interested in the intersection between the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). 

This framework aims to help students learn basic science content knowledge while developing their reading, writing, and analytical skills.

Also available in Spanish: http://energy.gov/eere/energia

The Clean Energy Ambassadors Curriculum Resource Guide is a collection of materials, lessons and activities that adult educators can use to integrate clean energy concepts into their curricula.

This document presents the 2013 Life Science Strand of the Massachusetts ABE Science Framework.

One Ocean was developed to support teachers in teaching topics with real-world context, and provide them with the background to feel competent and comfortable when teaching about the ocean. 

Website that provide quality teaching and learning in math and science using data.

This framework identifies the key scientific ideas and practices adults should have to engage in public discussions on science-related issues, be careful consumers of scientific and technical information, and enter the careers of their choice.

Drawing on a literature and program review, analysis of publicly available data, and consultations with experts in the field, this report examines opportunities for women and student parents to pursue and succeed in STEM fields at community colleges.

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This booklet can be used to help students build important health literacy skills, such as understanding important preventative health measures and understanding basic health information with a goal towards utilizing it to make appropriate health decisions.

This collection of resources is designed to help learners locate information in commonly used graphics.

AccessSTEM/AccessComputing/DO-IT Longitudinal Transitional Study (ALTS) are two research projects funded through NSF with a goal to increase the number of people with disabilities who have degrees and careers in STEM.

This report includes information on the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) including industry growth projections, wage and earnings, labor shortages, and the future of the STEM workforce.  

This report summarizes an analysis of research that documents what happens when STEM teachers work together in professional learning communities to improve teaching and increase student achievement. It provides examples of projects using this model.

This resource introduces the history of and research in the the field of pre-college and early college mathematics practices.

The article addresses adult learning theory synthesized with higher educator use of interactive graphical interface, via the interactive whiteboard (IWB) and interactive response system, to provide an educational design framework for moving the traditional direct instruction “lecture” cognitively and kinesthetically to an interactive inquiry-based experience. 

This is a good resource for teachers who are looking to understand the key issues in climate change. 

In this research article, Carol Dweck contends that to increase student mastery of math and science, instructional techniques and curriculum tools need to be developed that shift student attitudes about learning towards what she terms a “growth mindset.”

Americans agree that our students urgently need better science education. The National Science Education Standards publication offers a coherent vision of what it means to be scientifically literate, describing what all students should understand and be able to do in science. The volume reflects the principles that learning science is an inquiry-based process, that science in schools should reflect the intellectual traditions of contemporary science, and that all Americans have a role in science education reform.