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12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

I posted this a few years ago, skipped the topic with all the craziness of the pandemic, and am updating it this year in articles about how to wrap up your school year.: Wrapping up your school technology for the summer is as complicated as setting it up in September. There are endless backups, shares, cleanings, changed settings, and vacation messages that — if not done right — can mean big problems when you return from summer vacation.

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What is Mood Meter and How to Use It to Boost Kids Emotional Intelligence?

Educators Technology

Mood Meter is a tool from Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence that helps students (and everyone else) boost their emotional intelligence (EQ) through developing self-awareness and.read more.

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Is Hybrid Learning Here to Stay in Higher Ed?

ED Surge

A new study says college students may prefer the flexibility of hybrid classes—but that doesn’t mean they want to leave campus. Holly Burns, for instance, long dreamed of attending the University of California at Berkeley. She took some intro-level courses at her local community college, and when she applied in 2018, she couldn’t believe she was accepted.

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The Wonders of Water

STEM Discovery

Creation and Implementation of a learning scenario As children grow and understand the world around them, it is important they value water as being vital for their health and for a healthy environment. In a flexible learning environment (FLE), students … Continue reading → The post The Wonders of Water appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Top STEM Programs for Girls

Career in STEM

“We need to encourage and support girls and women achieve their full potential as scientific researchers and innovators.” — UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. Women are vastly underrepresented in STEM careers around the world. According to a United Nations study conducted in 14 countries, only 18% percent of science degrees earned are by women, compared with 37% by male students. “In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls

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When STEM and Football Collide

STEM Sport

There has been a significant increase of awareness around concussions and head injuries in football in recent years. By extension, this awareness and subsequent increase in concussion protocols has decreased concussions since 2015, as depicted below by IQVIA : an independent, third-party associated with the NFL (National Football League) to effectively measure the impact of injuries, including concussions, in the league. . *2020 was markedly different from other seasons due to the COVID-19 pande

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 “Turistic trip and challenges towards the ecological city”

STEM Discovery

The development of technology and industry has shifted the concentration of population in urban areas, adding to the challenges for architects and designers in managing urban areas for sustainable city and a secure future. In this SDW22 our students will … Continue reading → The post “Turistic trip and challenges towards the ecological city” appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Congratulations Graduates!

Northeastern University

Congratulations all STEM people on graduating! S-POWER Students!: <a href=”[link] S-POWER Video</a> Abdi Yonis, Jordan Alvez, Lorenza De Lucia, Christopher De Oliveira, Gregory Gidicsin, Nijel Hunt, Isabela Oliveira Mahoney, Tajonae Oyelowo, Eleanett Perez Cervera, Lauryn Rodney, Madeleine Weaver, Jonathan Cohen, Evanjune Francis. Work studies -> MaryBeth Rockett, Nick Fantasia, Brian Januzzi, Sakura Gandolfo, Chris (S-POWER), Wiley Philibert, Matthew Swenson.

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STEAM has no Gender

STEM Discovery

This year we decide to participate in the STEM Discovery Campaign with an awareness-raising event on the topic of the gender gap in STEM. Together with my colleague Donatella Sandias organized a multidisciplinary civic education activity focusing on SGDs 5 … Continue reading → The post STEAM has no Gender appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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Leveraging Technology to Engage Students in Meaningful Career-Focused Learning

Defined Learning

After 12 years of teaching in Florida’s public school system, Brian Tupper’s principal let him know he was considered a “non-fiction reading teacher”, rather than a World Cultures and Geography teacher. Frustrated with the educational system, Tupper resigned and took a job teaching at Korea International School on Jeju, Island, South Korea. There, he got a taste for Project-Based Learning (PBL) and curriculum development with an Understanding by Design (UbD) focus and began to feel a shift in hi

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Leonardo da Vinci Bridge – “Self Supporting Bridge”

STEM Discovery

Our Self Supporting Bridge event; We planned to get to know the world-famous painter and engineer Leonardo Da Vinci, who lived in the fifteenth century, and one of his works, to see how to build a bridge without using nails … Continue reading → The post Leonardo da Vinci Bridge – “Self Supporting Bridge” appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Happy Earth Day!- What is Sustainable Fashion?

Bright and Smart

Our Posterity = Our Children. Enhancing our children's S. T. E. A. M education is imperative to their success and will help them become innovators of the future. S.T.E.A.M stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Earth Day 2022. Here is a brief history of the most secular celebrated day around the world. according to , Earth Day.org. 1970 The first Earth Day mobilizes 20 million Americans to call for increased protection for our planet 1990 Earth Day goes global, mobilizing 20

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Hydroponic System

STEM Discovery

by Özlem Sayg?n, Ph. D. (#Integrated STEM Teaching for Secondary Schools Rerun) (2022 STEM Discovery Campaign-Scientix Competition 1: STEM Activities) The activities of the Hydroponic System were implemented in 10th grade (age 16) in Antalya Erünal Sosyal Bilimler Lisesi, Turkey. … Continue reading → The post Hydroponic System appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Downloadable Design Briefs for an Integrative STEM Curriculum

These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!

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How to Build Any School into a Success Story

Middle Web

Every school leader needs a focused, intentional process to move a school from what it is to what it can become, writes veteran principal Frank Hagan. Robyn Jackson offers a “new way of thinking” through the phases of her Buildership Model and its 90-day iterative blueprints. The post How to Build Any School into a Success Story first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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TECHNO GREEN SCHOOL

STEM Discovery

Projenin ad?: Techno Green School S?n?f: 3rd Class SUMMARY The methods that will enable our students to develop their basic skills are developing and changing day by day. Solution-oriented approaches to problems come to the fore. With our project, our … Continue reading → The post TECHNO GREEN SCHOOL appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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STEM Curriculum for Elementary Schools

Kid Spark Education

Starting STEM education early sets students up for educational success in and out of the STEM subjects. With the critical thinking, creative problem solving, and logical reasoning skills learned through early STEM fluency, young learners are able to adapt more quickly and embrace the world around them with curiosity and confidence.

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Traveling to space through the virtual reality glasses application prepared with STEM

STEM Discovery

Digital education materials are very important. Students cannot see space and planets up close in real life.However, it is possible to travel to space with virtual reality glasses. Student can study planets as if they are in space thanks to … Continue reading → The post Traveling to space through the virtual reality glasses application prepared with STEM appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Importance of Stem Education For The Early Learners

STEM Education Shopping

The concept of a STEM-related education (Science, Technology, engineering, and maths) has grown popular among children. STEM education promotes activities such as problem-solving, gathering and evaluating, evidence, decision-making, and processing information have become important life skills for a successful 21st-century existence. . The basic concepts are based on STEM education, with the acronym standing for science, technology, engineering, and math with the standard addition of computer sci

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Water is Life

STEM Discovery

Access to clean water, one of the problems caused by the global climate crisis, is the aim of our STEM plan. The gradual decrease of clean water resources and access to clean water has become one of the biggest problems … Continue reading → The post Water is Life appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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The Plant Kingdom

MooMoo Math & Science

Plants come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Plants belong in the plant kingdom. It is also called kingdom Plantae. Let's look at some common characteristics of the kingdom Plantae. The plant kingdom is made up of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms which means they have a nucleus and membrane bound organelles, they are autotrophs which means that they are self feeders.

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We Design Our Own Ecosystem!

STEM Discovery

(Global warming and climate change) This learning scenario was prepared in order to let our young people, who are the architects of our future witness the problems closely and develop solutions with NBS ( natural based solutions). Subjects: Biology; Learning … Continue reading → The post We Design Our Own Ecosystem! appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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4 Teaching Ideas Students Will Benefit From Now and as Adults

ED Week

Problem solving and entrepreneurial thinking are being integrated into STEM instruction in very creative and relevant ways.

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Let’s have air.

STEM Discovery

Together with my preschool students, we learned to discover the existence of air through experiments. Each student did an air-related experiment with their classmates. And he explained the purpose of his experiment. My Students What is STEM? How does STEM … Continue reading → The post Let’s have air. appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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CTO's Thoughts on the Draft Overturning Roe vs Wade

Informed K12

We wanted to share this email that was sent from our CTO, Qian Wang, to employees after the draft overturning Roe v Wade came out. After this email, we held an internal Community Circle where employees could share their experiences and personal anecdotes around reproductive justice and hold space for listening and reflection.

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“Everybody should have a tree that has wings” A Learning Scenario based on Terra Mission MOOC

STEM Discovery

Abstract Trees and forests play an important role on climate change and climate change threatens the human life but at the same time it has devastating consequences on biodiversity. “Everybody should have a tree that has wings” is a learning … Continue reading → The post “Everybody should have a tree that has wings” A Learning Scenario based on Terra Mission MOOC appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Skyscrapers-in recognition World Engineering Day

Bright and Smart

Our Posterity = Our Children Enhancing our children's S.T.E.A.M education is imperative to their success and will help them become innovators of the future. S.T.E.A.M stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. By incorporating hands-on activities into our children's curriculum, it will help them to improve skills like: Creativity. Critical Thinking.

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ART ROUND WITH MARBLES

STEM Discovery

This course, which is in the “Visual Communication and Formation” learning area within the scope of the 7, 8, 9 and 10th grade “Visual Arts” course in the Turkish education system, and which is suitable for the acquisition of “Uses … Continue reading → The post ART ROUND WITH MARBLES appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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May 13, Exponents and Order of Operations

Online Math for All

Exponents and Order of Operations - Concept - Examples

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