On this episode of UEN Homeroom,Dani and Fernando chat with Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors, Clief Castleton and Milo Maughan. These Utah educators share their STEM teaching experiences that led them to apply to the SETI Institute’s Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program.

This informational text explains the colorful phenomenon known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) and the southern lights (aurora australis). The text is written at a grade two through three reading level. This version is a full-color PDF that can be printed, cut and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations.

This informational text explains the colorful phenomenon known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) and the southern lights (aurora australis). The text is written at a grade two through three level. This is a PDF containing the informational text and a glossary.

Students will use pictures of organisms and their offspring to compare inheritance between offspring of sexual reproduction and asexual.

Join us as we step into Samie Ott's classroom at Bryce Valley Elementary and witness firsthand how Utah's Computer Science standards are being integrated into the curriculum. In this episode of UEN's PDTV, you'll see Samie's students showcase their learning journey as they demonstrate their mastery of computational thinking.

This video discusses how the concepts of structure and function can be taught using animal and plant adaptations.

Experiment with conductivity in metals, plastics and photoconductors. See why metals conduct and plastics don't, and why some materials conduct only when you shine a flashlight on them.

Learn about the history and culture of the Northwestern Shoshone people. Paint a watercolor landscape of an environment with Utah wildlife.
This lesson is written in partnership with and approved by the Northwestern Shoshone cultural specialist Patty Timbimboo-Madsen. Northwestern Band of Shoshone SealBefore teaching this lesson, please explain to your students that there are many native tribes in the United States and that this lesson specifically focuses on the northwestern band of the Shoshone Nation and does not represent other Native American groups. We hope that other native tribes will respect the northwestern band of the Shoshone Nation's choice to share this aspect of their culture.

From Eric Curts' Control Alt Achieve, he outlines how to use Google Docs' new create a dropdown feature to help students do close reading. It is a fairly simple idea with some great applications across content areas. Basically, copy a paragraph of text, remove the important words, and make a color-coded dropdown. It is a quickly assessed formative assessment that lets the teacher use any text they desire.

In this Google Applied Digital Skills lesson, students will create a collage using Google Drawings.

Learn how to create Comic Strips with your students using Google Slides, Drawings, and Jamboard.

Students learn to use Google Forms to create a guessing game from course content.

Students learn to create an interactive guide of an area using Sheets and Maps.

Help students create more connections between classroom topics by creating a Google Drawing mind map.

Allow students to explore their own lives and the important ideas that make them who they are by building a personal timeline in Google Drawings.