ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic set this work back substantially; teachers and students went into survival mode and volunteer opportunities dried up as workplaces closed.
Educators Technology
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. These resources are designed to help promote civics education especially among middle and high school students. Topics covered include citizenship, governance, civil rights, the constitution, politics and public policy, state and local governments, media, news literacy, and many more.
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Cool Cat Teacher
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Reading instruction can be challenging when a teacher has many different ability levels in her classroom. Furthermore, kindergarten and elementary grades are fundamental. Reading expert, Laura Robb breaks down excellent reading instruction from kindergarten through fifth grade.
The Science Penguin
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Before 5th grade, relative density is usually taught as “sink or float”. In middle school, students start calculating density. This can be an amazing unit for students K-6… we just need to add some hands-on investigations to take “sink or float” to the next level. BTW, in 4th and 5th grade, I like to use the term relative density rather than sink or float.
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.
Futurum
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The engineering behind Evolutor. Published: Professor Tuck Seng Wong , based at The University of Sheffield in the UK, leads a team focused on applying the concept of Darwinian evolution to engineer biological systems for industrial applications. TALK LIKE A BIOMANUFACTURER. BIOECONOMY — the economic potential of harnessing the power of bioscience. ENZYMES — the proteins responsible for catalysing all chemical reactions in cells.
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Box Light
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Back to school is a time full of nervous anticipation and excitement about what is coming this year for both teachers and students. If your class is set up with an interactive display and/or STEM education tools and materials, we can help!
Basic-Mathematics
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
What is the harmonic mean? How to calculate the harmonic mean? Find out two different ways to express the formula.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Tech Tips for Teacher Writers is an occasional post on overcoming Tech Dread. I’ll cover issues that friends, both real-time and virtual, have shared. Feel free to post a comment about a question you have. I’ll cover it in a future tip. This tip is to help you find books on Amazon country platforms not your home location. Say, a website guided you to a link in the US Amazon platform (amazon.com), but you want to buy the book in the UK.
Middle Web
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Consultants Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn counsel that dealing with change promptly, engaging actively in social media, and achieving work-life balance are central tasks that will help school leaders not only survive but also thrive as they run this year's marathon. The post How to Be a Proactive School Leader This Year first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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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.
STEM Education Shopping
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Why is STEM Important? The world these days is dependent on the STEM, and this word means (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and for this reason it so important for the world and for us too, so when we say STEM its not just a simple code for something, it is the base of health care, manufacturing, food production, and a lot of other fields, we may think that its a point less thing but the sure thing is we can’t live without it. you want also to know why it is important ?
Newton STEM
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The Cambridge Science Festival will host Borealis — a free light-and-sound installation simulating the magic of the Northern Lights — at the Kendall/MIT Open Space in Kendall Square in Cambridge 8PM-11PM on the nights of October 6-9. The public is invited to come and go, move around, and enjoy its constantly changing aurora. The works’ creator, Dan Acher, is an international artivist based in Switzerland, an Ashoka Fellow and the founder of Happy City Lab.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
When Wendy Schatzberg, an associate professor at Utah Tech University, was teaching introductory chemistry, she thought her students would know how to use basic Microsoft Office tools like Excel and Word. But she found that assumption was wrong. “I cannot and should not assume,” says Schatzberg, who also directs the Center for Teaching and Learning at Utah Tech.
Newton STEM
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Each year, the Red Sox welcome teachers and their students for STEM Education Day — a morning of STEM lectures and interactive exhibits (8AM-11:30AM), followed by the game at 1:35PM. This year, on September 29 , the Boston 25 News Team will talk about weather and there will be an egg-drop experiment off the Green Monster, as well as exhibits by Sunovion, iRobot, JetBlue, Wasabi, Unruly Splats, Project Lead the Way, New England FIRST, and others.
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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!
Educators Technology
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Now that I am updating this post it has been three months that I defended my doctoral dissertation. I am happy and relieved it is all over. It has been a really hard but enjoyable journey. I learned a great deal from it and I am seriously contemplating writing a short book about my doctoral journey. In this post, I am sharing with you some of the digital tools and apps I have used during my PhD studies.
Newton STEM
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
MassRobotics will host RoboBoston , the 5th annual robot block party, on October 1 , 11AM-4PM, at Seaport Common (85 Northern Ave, Boston). It’s free and open to the public. On September 30 , RoboBoston will host its School STEM Field Trip Day for schools to send groups of students in Grades 7-12 for 1.5 hours of interactive activities and demonstrations.
Cool Cat Teacher
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Since last year’s post, 15 Real World Lessons You Can Teach Students Now , the free resources at EVERFI have just grown. From Financial Literacy to Mental Wellness to the Metaverse or vocabulary for younger children, EVERFI has even more free, world-class resources for you to use with your students.
Newton STEM
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture will host a free public lecture — Why Sharks Matter: Shark Science and Conservation — on September 6 , 6PM-7:15PM. It will take place both in-person (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge) and online. In either case, register here. Marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shiffman will speak.
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