STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning is essential to a student’s core curriculum. One way parents can aid their child’s education is by implementing STEM lessons at home during the school year and summer months. Pricing in this blog is based on website pricing as of February 5, 2023.

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STEM Education Works

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As students are settling into their new school year, what better way to enrich their minds than by introducing them to the fascinating realms of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics? Penny, the Engineering Tail of the Fourth Little Pig by Kimberly Derting, Shelli R. Superpower?: Cairns, and Johnna J.

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STEM Next

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What’s more, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a report in 2007 that emphasized the importance of K-12 STEM learning as a critical factor for enhancing the nation’s competitiveness and prosperity ( Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future ).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

Finding webtools for high school classes requires a different set of metrics than those that apply to lower and middle school searches. By high school, the pressure to prepare students for their future is immense. Of course they do! They aren’t interested in replacing the usual tools or facilitating rote drills.

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Vivify Stem

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Brain Safety Football STEM Challenge What do football and STEM have in common? Challenge your students to create a safer football helmet for their adorable “egg” players. Using the engineering design process , teams of students design, create, and test pint-sized football helmets. What age is best for this challenge?

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Vivify Stem

MARCH 3, 2023

From building simple obstacle courses to working through real-life cybersecurity challenges, students will be fascinated by what they can get robots to do, no matter what grade they are in. Hold class challenges where students can compete against each other, like a robotic pentathlon, race, or obstacle course speed trials.

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CTE Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As middle and students embark on their educational journey, introducing them to web design goes beyond creating aesthetically pleasing websites. Our Web Design course helps equip middle school and high school students with web design skills that they can build on in their future professional and educational endeavors.

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STEM Sport

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

STEM is a well known term used when talking about science, technology, engineering, and math subjects. The DIY Lego Balloon Car STEM project for kids 4+ is the perfect introduction to engineering, math, and science concepts. Toothpick Bridge Geometry and Engineering Lesson. Solo Cup Engineering Challenge.

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Vivify Stem

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Engineering in the Science Classroom Post Natasha Wilkerson November 22, 2022 Help! I am a science teacher, and I am trying to figure out how to integrate engineering in my classroom! Which engineering challenges best support science learning? What about engineering practices?

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in schools around the country. Are there effective ways to use AI in schools? And there are there some ways we should discourage the use of AI in schools? What concerns you about AI?

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STEM Discovery Education

AUGUST 25, 2022

Start the school year right with these fun Virtual Field Trips! Find creative ways to connect students to the real world through Virtual Field Trips that introduce them to present challenges, future possibilities, and potential career pathways. Learn More. -->. Sustainable Futures. Grades 5-10. Learn More. Learn More. -->.

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STEM Next

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This month on the blog, we are thrilled to welcome one of the STEM Next Opportunity Fellows as a guest author. Dr. Miller brings a wealth of expertise to her position at the Department including serving as a former middle school STEM teacher and an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow in Senator Rosen’s office.

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STEM Next

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A family newly arrived to Oregon, learns about an upcoming Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) family event that their child’s school is coordinating at their Vietnamese community church. The Family Engagement Project shares research, resources, and training with educators and out-of-school program leaders.

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Love Learning STEM

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

This blog post of Classroom Management Tips for Stem Class will get you started. If you need extra assistance with figuring out what procedures to teach and model, take a look at this blog post with 20 STEM classroom procedures. Number 5 is feeling not happy and not sad, but somewhere in the middle.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Should it be welcomed in schools? He has spent the last several years working with schools across the world with the implementation of his work. Is it helpful? Should it be blocked?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

With technology moving out of the lab and into the classroom, it’s becoming a challenge for some teachers to infuse their teaching with tech tools such as websites, educational games, simulations, iPads, Chromebooks, GAFE, and other geeky devices that used to be the purview of a select group of nerdy teachers. Ask for help.

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National Science Foundation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Science and science education needs to be responsive, and the SciTech TEAMS Program is an example of how teacher preparation can be responsive to the challenges in society and education. Candidates bring this knowledge into their own classrooms to develop lessons that demonstrate phenomena that amazes and engages young science learners.

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Stem Activities for Kids

MARCH 1, 2021

Find our favorite activities below – from leprechaun traps to a snake snatcher, to rainbow activities, and a wind-powered maze: Leprechaun Trap STEM from Get Caught Engineering. Your students’ engineering skills are needed to build a leprechaun trap because the local leprechaun has been causing all kinds of problems.

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Start-Engineering

JUNE 24, 2020

Is elementary school too early for career awareness activities? While long a feature of high school and even middle school education, career-oriented programming increasingly shows up in elementary school learning activities. What’s Engineering? Eric Iversen. Of course it is!

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Vivify Stem

DECEMBER 1, 2020

2020 Hour of Code Resources & Distance Learning Activities Schools across the world will participate in an Hour of Code on December 7-13th as part of Computer Science Education Week. Students learn the challenges of verbal or written commands in trying to have their partner build an object. This post includes Affiliate Links.

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Start-Engineering

MARCH 9, 2020

Students are crowding into engineering programs across the country, a reflection of the field’s growing popularity in the last 10 years. The tail winds On nearly every front in education, the profile of engineering is rising. And in colleges across the country, enrollments in engineering programs are ballooning. Eric Iversen.

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Get Caught Engineering

APRIL 18, 2023

An eco-mystery with an unforgettable friendship story at its heart from a fresh new voice in middle grade. Not long ago we did a blog on Sci-Starter which is a very well organized source for lots of citizen science activities that are perfect for the classroom and Earth Day. . We hope you Get Caught Engineering ® this Earth Day!

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Carly and Adam

AUGUST 6, 2022

Whether your STEM Program focuses on robotics or engineering and design projects, we reached out to educators in the field to get their best storage hacks. Finding the right solution can be a challenge. Storing Projects in Process Finding ways to store ongoing projects is definitely a challenge for STEM/Maker teachers.

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STEM Next

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s not that we are trying to limit girls’ options, but we are less likely to consider toys and games that encourage girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Challenge stereotypes with building toys. When she is ready for new challenges, explore Do Try This at Home by the Lemelson Center.

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The Maker Mom

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sometimes public or private school curriculums don’t give kids the individual attention necessary to thrive and excel. Middle and high school online homeschooling programs offer language learning, computer sciences, or business classes to boost skill levels and enhance future career opportunities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One of the most difficult skills to teach in school is problem solving. I don’t think schools can manage without coding and STEM. They even offer grant services to support school science programs. I can’t tell you how many kids–and parents–ask me, “How do I get an A.” No animations. Just content.

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Start-Engineering

JANUARY 14, 2021

STEM has left the building For a long time, advocates of STEM education have worked to bring STEM learning closer to students’ lives outside of school. This year, though, COVID has made STEM learning a part of students’ lives outside of school – and in the home – in ways nobody ever imagined or wanted.

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Start-Engineering

APRIL 13, 2020

Please, for example, go get a free download of our coloring book, What’s Engineering? Learning to see Our goal with the coloring book has always started with the first lesson most people need to learn about engineering: how to know it when they see it. Get a free download by clicking on the cover image!

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Science and Steamteam

JANUARY 18, 2022

This bridge is one of the most photographed bridges globally and was voted one of the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World” by the American Society of Civil Engineers. One cantilever is built on each side of what needs to be crossed, and they meet in the middle. STEM Challenge: What Makes a Bridge Strong?

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Start-Engineering

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A natural fit Young kids are natural engineers. In a nutshell, that is what engineering is all about. Early education programs are starting to connect these activities to engineering, but it is still early days. What’s Engineering? It works to make “engineering” an understandable, accessible activity to kids.

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User Generated Education

JULY 5, 2018

Rather than the maker experiences being an after school program, an add on activity, or an activity that is implemented when students have done their regular lessons work, it should be part of the regular, day-to-day curriculum. Making should not be relegated to the times spent outside of class, e.g. lunch or after school.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 26, 2023

Conference strands include STEM/STEAM, Technology and Media, Science and Engineering Practices, and Integrating Literacy and Science , to name a few. Sessions focused on emerging technologies, cool new apps, and advances in STEM education make it a great conference for elementary, middle, or secondary teachers and leaders.

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Vivify Stem

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The following is a guest blog post Julie Lyons, a STEM and Technology teacher for Grades PK - 5 in a Maryland private school. Unique Challenges of Managing a STEM Classroom STEM is an inventive, creative, thought-provoking process. I asked her during a STEM challenge to be the scissor assistant.

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Start-Engineering

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It gets this attention for all the change it promises to bring to schools, workplaces, and our civic lives. The field presents many of the same diversity challenges that other tech-intensive fields do, with cultural and structural obstacles to entry and success for women and minorities. The old name?

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Start-Engineering

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

K-12 career awareness not keeping up Career awareness has become an established, defined activity in the K-12 school day, embedded in state learning standards across the country. Meanwhile, we graduate about 200,000 computer science and engineering majors per year, only a fraction of whom would even be considering cybersecurity as a career.

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Ellipsis Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this blog, we take a closer look at the connections between art and STEM (called STEAM education), and we explore how to integrate art into computer science. You may be familiar with the term STEM, which standards for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Middle School. But what does STEAM stand for?

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STEMx

APRIL 7, 2017

A: RESET provides an experiential learning opportunity for STEM educators interested in conducting research with an Army scientist or engineer mentor. Eligible applicants are STEM educators of students in high school or upper middle grades, with a focus on teachers coming from high needs areas working with underserved populations.

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