STEM Sport

MAY 15, 2024

Summer break is an exciting time for students full of good weather, time with friends and family, and an opportunity to explore things that interest them. Both of these learning experiences have been proven to increase student comprehension, engagement, and retention.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Students from the three schools where I teach gifted students look forward to it all week long. We started with Fornite Creative but now they have moved onto Rocket League and Among Us. Just remember that when using it with students, it should be as a shared doc meaning anyone with a link has editing permission.

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STEM Education Shopping

JULY 30, 2023

Photo by Markus Winkler: [link] The Best Resources and Strategies Review: Stem Curriculum Guides to Engage Students and Ignite passion for All Lessons (2023) – Are you looking for the best STEM curriculum books guide to enhance your teaching and engage your students? Look no further!

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 8, 2023

Once kids begin to code, you’ll see that it fosters these skills and characteristics in learners: develops computational thinking enhances executive functioning skills encourages creative thinkers and innovators At what age can learners begin to code? why is it important to introduce coding in elementary school?

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we tackle a topic that's often whispered in the hallways of schools everywhere with a mix of disdain and necessity: worksheets. Teachers should gradually incorporate these strategies into their teaching to enhance student engagement and learning.

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STEM Sport

OCTOBER 18, 2022

One way to increase student engagement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) lessons is to introduce themed activities into the classroom that connect with the current season. In this article, STEM Sports® has curated a list of spooky Halloween themed STEM activities for middle school students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. And right now, some district leaders and researchers say that's precisely what both students and teachers need. They're laughing, chatting and (sometimes) getting a bit frustrated.

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 29, 2022

An observer might walk away and think that students were “just drawing,” even though drawing can be an important part of the planning process for students engaged in engineering and design. Maybe students are twisting pipe cleaners together to create a tree or a bird or gluing popsicle sticks together to make a bridge.

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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Virtual reality STEM lessons allow students to engage with complex STEM concepts, learn how to navigate the technology landscape, and how to use technology to benefit their education. The real-world applications offered through virtual reality lessons help students engage using hands-on learning methods.

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Challenge: Any type of hands-on extension will reinforce student understanding, as well as increase student engagement. One fun challenge is to have students build a maze using magnets. In this STEM Lesson, students design a Maze to connect 2 people using an invisible force, magnetism. Join our Free Facebook Group.

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 24, 2023

These are some of the art projects that fill the hallways in our schools. Maybe your school uses the acronym as STEM or STEAM or STREAM. If artistic expression and creativity are incorporated into the work of your school, then you may favor STEAM over a traditional STEM approach. Art is eye-catching and often joyful.

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Here, we delve into creative and engaging activities that bring the concept of a solar eclipse to life in the classroom. These activities are perfect for elementary school teachers looking to inspire their students with the wonders of the cosmos through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education.

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Carly and Adam

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

From free play to curriculum-embedded activities, designing and constructing with bricks is a great way to engage students in hands-on learning. This post will share different types of project ideas for any elementary classroom. Free Play Students can engage in opportunities to play and create. BrentwoodEIPS.

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STEM Sport

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When students participate in movement-based learning, they benefit physically and experience enhanced concentration, memory, and creativity. Active learning, where students engage in physical activities while learning STEM concepts, results in more profound understanding and retention of information.

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STEM Sport

APRIL 13, 2023

This article outlines how to gamify the classroom to increase student engagement and retention of complex STEM concepts. Why Gamification Works in STEM Education Gamification combines typical game activities and classroom curriculum/lesson plans to increase student engagement. Using game-based rewards and recognition.

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STEM Next

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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. In desperation to keep science instruction going, I bought foldscopes and told parents they could pick them up at the school—anything to keep the magic alive.

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STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In today’s educational landscape, teachers often find themselves racing against the clock, juggling lesson plans, assessments, and the ever-important (and sometimes seemingly impossible) task of keeping students engaged. This activity enhances their spatial reasoning and creativity.

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PCS Edventures

MAY 15, 2023

Let’s explore how you can boost your camper’s academic skills in an exciting and engaging way. You want your learners to have a blast, and at the same time, you want them brimming with confidence when they return to school. It’s directly related to the child’s achievement levels in school. Let’s dive in.

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Carly and Adam

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Are you tired of students shouting out “I’m done!”? Is it difficult to keep those students engaged in learning? You’ve presented a STEM challenge to the class and a few students finish much more quickly than anticipated. Assign students the job to inventory materials and document the things that have been depleted.

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STEM Sport

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Choosing gifts for high school kids can be a difficult task. At the high school level, teenagers are already starting to decide what courses they enjoy and what subjects they want to learn more about in the future. Kids work in the Engineering Design Process (EDP) to think through problems and creatively find solutions.

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When students engage in a STEM challenges, their emotions can range from utter frustration to extreme jubilation. For more STEM ideas, inspiration, and collaboration with other STEM teachers be sure to join our FREE Facebook group Elementary STEM Teachers with Carly and Adam ! The following is a guest post from Dr. Jacie Maslyk.

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STEM Sport

JULY 12, 2022

The rapidly increasing demand to fill these STEM jobs shows the increased importance of improving STEM literacy and skills as early as preschool and elementary school. However, there is a personal benefit to each student who is interacting with STEM curriculum. Improves creative thinking and problem solving skills.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 14, 2023

It’s an amazing educational tool that can revolutionize the way students learn in middle school. With connector blocks that snap together easily, teachers don’t need any prior experience with robotics to start teaching their students how to code creatively!

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STEM Sport

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To prepare students for these exciting opportunities, educators play a pivotal role in providing students with the necessary skills and knowledge. Starting as early as kindergarten and elementary school, educators lay the groundwork for students who will use their STEM literacy to enter the growing STEM workforce.

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PCS Edventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Mathematics is so much more than just a school subject. Whether learners struggle to understand real-world connections or have difficulty learning various math concepts, educators are left wondering how to engage them and strengthen their math skills and confidence. International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Recently, while discussing the next steps for schools this fall with two instructional designers in the webinar “10 Ways to Move Learning Forward”, we identified ten considerations for school. Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 20, 2019

Authentic learning is learning designed to connect what students are taught in school to real-world issues, problems, and applications; learning experiences should mirror the complexities and ambiguities of real life. ” For more about this, see Flow – A Measure of Student Engagement [link]. Reflection.

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STEM Supplies

MAY 19, 2020

Previously, I put together a list of my elementary recommendations. For the older students who were exposed to programming and basic engineering in elementary school, drones are a great next step. Through building drones, students expand on their circuit and engineering lessons from previous years.

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CoderZ

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Equitable STEM and computer science opportunities are something that elementary educators have struggled to implement, myself included. In each lesson, I strive to teach in a way that my students WANT to learn and in the ways that they learn best while challenging them at the same time. BUT it does not have to be!

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PCS Edventures

MAY 1, 2023

Problem-Solving Skills: Problem-solving skills are composed of creative thinking and critical thinking skills. Campers must draw on past experiences and knowledge, then develop a creative solution. When campers return to school, they take the knowledge of their new experiences, friendships, interests and skill sets with them.

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National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this blog, we will share research-to-practice insight into developing engineering experiences for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and strategies to engage them in engineering that build on their assets and evaluate their engagement. Students engage in designing a roller coaster for a client.

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STEM Sport

MAY 17, 2022

This teaching method works on students’ soft skills, increases engagement, and helps improve student retention rates. The Benefits Finding the intersection of subjects in the classroom, known as cross-curricular teaching, is a practice schools across the country are implementing with their students.

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STEM Sport

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Especially at the elementary level, parents, educators, and facilitators are highlighting the need for quality STEM education. Introducing students to STEM early in their education promotes comfort and confidence in these disciplines. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to design a STEM curriculum for kindergarten students.

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The Maker Mom

JANUARY 18, 2023

Minecraft classes can keep students engaged in teamwork and learning valuable social skills while participating in a game that most kids enjoy. iD Tech Minecraft Camp iD Tech offers Minecraft coding courses and camps for students in elementary, middle, and high school.

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PCS Edventures

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Whether you’re in a traditional classroom setting or an out-of-school program, providing access to STEM is essential for empowering the learners in your room. To engage all learners, our STEM programs include a variety of extensions, challenges and activities. For example, everyone loves our design challenges. 2018, June).

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 23, 2022

These exciting programs engage learners through 12 interactive lessons that play on the power of interlocking bricks and design. Both programs can be used interchangeably to enhance learning in traditional and out-of-school settings. It’s simple to meet the many standards across the school year. Spend Less Time Planning.

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Carly and Adam

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Choosing an engineering design challenge will push students to come up with possible solutions to a variety of problems using innovative thinking and creativity. In these challenges, students will use a variety of materials to create models and test them, often working with others and making improvements based on their feedback.

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