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Coding for Kids: How to Boost Academic Achievement

PCS Edventures

Communicating with computers is fun, engaging and thrilling, and it also has a powerful effect on kids’ futures. Coding boosts academic achievement while simultaneously embedding life-long skills in learners. Elementary-aged learners are capable of providing computers with instructions to achieve a specific outcome through code!

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Building & Using an Elementary STEM Curriculum Map

STEM Sport

Early implementation of the STEM curriculum leads to confidence and increased student achievement in STEM, which helps better prepare students for higher education and future careers. When implementing STEM in elementary education, educators and school administrators often benefit from creating a STEM curriculum map.

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How Has the Pandemic Changed the Way Educators Think About Homework?

ED Surge

They say students need time to exercise, socialize and recharge. They cite homework’s impact on the achievement gap between students of differing socioeconomic backgrounds. They’re providing additional flexibility, assigning and grading less homework in light of the pandemic. But other educators have a different view.

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The Science of Summer Camps

PCS Edventures

Pairing a flexible learning environment with subject exposure increases learning retention in a manner that’s so invigorating campers won’t even realize they’re learning. It’s directly related to the child’s achievement levels in school. The Effects of Summer Vacation on Achievement Test Scores: A Narrative and Meta-Analytic Review.

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Enhance Executive Functioning with STEAM

PCS Edventures

These vital skills include time management, goal setting, organization, self-monitoring, flexible thinking, working memory, impulse control and emotional control. The three core components of executive functioning are working memory, mental flexibility and self-control. The STEM lesson is split into feasible components.

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How to Give Feedback During a STEM Challenge

Carly and Adam

When students engage in a STEM challenges, their emotions can range from utter frustration to extreme jubilation. Does it require materials that are flexible? Where is the design not achieving what you had hoped? When students are feeling stuck mid-challenge, they might also need an opportunity to decompress.

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Does Science Still Have a Seat at the Table?

STEM Next

My students and I had been sent home for the rest of the school year. The potatoes we were growing in Martian soil had withered, and so had the student engagement. Fast-forward to spring 2021. I tried to maintain the same level of excitement and interest we had in the classroom, but it felt impossible.

Science 111