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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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Engineering Education for Children on the Autism Spectrum: Content, Pedagogy, and Assessment

National Science Foundation

Engineering learning is a lifelong process that starts from a very young age as children discover the world through tinkering, touching, and being curious. Some refer to children as natural engineers (Dorie et al., Young children naturally and informally engage in engineering-related behaviors and activities (Petroski, 2003).

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Critical Issues in Engineering Education

Vivify Stem

Critical Issues of K-12 Engineering Education Post by Natasha Wilkerson December 28, 2021 Did you know that most state science standards now include engineering? But does engineering actually support science learning? Are teachers prepared to teach engineering effectively? What is the engineering design process?

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Summer Games STEM Challenges for K-2 (Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade)

Carly and Adam

Don’t just teach about the Summer Olympics with your students! Engage them in a hands-on learning experience with STEM! Kayak STEM Challenge The Kayak STEM challenge involves students engineering a kayaker and kayak course, where they navigate the course using magnetism. Make a Javelin and See How Far it Can Travel 4.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

ED Surge

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement.

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Best Online Schools For Gifted Students

The Maker Mom

There are full and part-time high school classes, but also college prep, honors, and advanced placement for your gifted students. Learning at Excel High School is self-paced and available to all enrolled students anytime. Character building and leadership through service help students to make real changes in the world.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Thousands of students go through the university’s life sciences department, he adds, but a lot of them don’t graduate with degrees in those fields. This story also appeared in USA Today Falling off that path can lock students out of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.

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