Looking for creative ways to keep your students engaged during this festive season and celebrate the magic of this exciting time of year? These winter and Christmas STEM activities will surely help you harness some of that holiday energy and direct it toward intentional, educational STEM challenges designed to encourage imaginative thinking and nurture your […]
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Looking for creative ways to keep your students engaged during this hectic time of year and honor the history and cultural diversity behind the Thanksgiving holiday? These Thanksgiving-themed STEM activities will certainly add a dash of excitement to your classroom. Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude and growth, and what better way to embrace the
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5 Halloween STEM Activities to engage students throughout October!
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Baby or college student? Professors suggest there isn’t much difference. Recently, several articles have been popping up (like this one) in which colleges or employers decry the lack of resilience in their adult students or employees. Years of ever-increasing helicopter parenting and unconditional self-esteem building has resulted in adults so shielded from any sort of
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Is less more, or is more more when it comes to teaching writing? When teaching writing, sometimes the most helpful thing is knowing when less is more and when more is more. Writing can be one of the hardest subjects to teach. Often, students don’t want to do it, and teachers don’t want to read
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In my last post, “In a Test-Weary World, Design!“, I laid out a chart comparing and contrasting STEM Design vs.”Traditional” Design. You might wonder why the “Traditional” is in quotation marks. Many people would consider traditional design in line with project-based learning (PBL). In a PBL approach, a content is typically taught through formal lessons
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Do you ever feel your class has lost that loving feeling? You know what I’m talking about – that buzz of I-love-learning electricity that signals to all that your class is THE place to be! Design challenges – STEM and otherwise – are a great way to get back on track. In a test-weary world,
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I recently read an article called “The downside of no downtime for kids” (that is their stylistic capitalization – not mine). It suggests, unsurprisingly, that over-scheduling denies children the opportunity to wonder, ask questions, and come to grow and develop their character. It got me thinking quality downtime is critical for everyone – young and old. I
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If you’ll be rolling out NGSS this year, you might be unsure where to begin. Below are 7 steps to get you started. 1) Gut Check You have been told you will be implementing the Next-Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and you have seen a few examples of these standards. The changes from your previous science
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Will your district be implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) this year? If so, have you gut-checked your visceral reaction to the news? If you’ve been around awhile, you might anticipate the introduction of a new set of standards much as you do jury duty or summer flu. There’s a chance you’ve come to see
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