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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Here are popular online resources to teach about 3D Printing ( click here for updates on links ): 3D Bear Cricut Machine –to cut materials Create 3D Printing Designs 3D Doodler Pen MakerBot PrintShop Onshape SculptGL Sketchup Tinkercad –create your own 3D print designs Download 3D Printing designs GrabCad Smithsonian X3D –download 3D print designs of Smithosonian artifacts Thingiverse –download lots of 3D designs, like an iPhone case Youmagine –find 3D print designs –image credit Deposit P

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All About STEM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Apprenticeships website is offering packs of interactive activities for Years 7-9 designed to increase awareness of apprenticeships and T Levels at an early age. Learners can work their way through the pack to begin exploring what apprenticeships are, the different kinds of apprenticeships available and what exciting careers they lead to. There is also a useful T Level activity to promote.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By Katie Brenneman A robust STEM education is key to student success in the digital age. A strong grasp of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ensures that the pupils of today have the skills they need to find personal and professional success in the future. However, many students find STEM classes dull and unengaging. This is largely due to misconceptions about the purpose of STEM classes and outdated lesson plans that fail to capture the student’s imagination.

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All About STEM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Compass + is a FREE tool from The Careers & Enterprise Company to help you benchmark, manage, track and report on your school’s careers provision. It’s available to all secondary schools, special schools, sixth-forms and PRUs in England. All eligible schools can upgrade to Compass+ and The Careers & Enterprise Company offer comprehensive video guides to walk you through the new platform.

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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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Liberty Local School District (Youngstown, OH) is redefining STEM education, even in the face of unique challenges, with nearly 70% of students on free or reduced lunch programs. The district’s secret to success? A dynamic blend of cutting-edge technology, featuring Mimio interactive panels, Robo 3D printers, Mimio MyBot robots, Labdisc All-in-One Science Lab, and MyStemKits STEM curriculum.

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Middle Web

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The new edition of Amber Chandler's "The Flexible SEL Classroom" keeps its promise to provide practical ways to build social emotional learning, writes Anne Anderson. Chandler supports teachers with fresh ideas as they personalize learning for today’s post-pandemic students. The post Practical Ways to Help Post-Pandemic Students first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Ellipsis Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Curriculum Delivery Platform Launches Single Sign On Feature September 14, 2023 Gerrit VanderLugt Sr. Director of Technology We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Single Sign-On (SSO) for The Curriculum Delivery Platform (CDP)! With SSO, you can access our platform with an existing account. No need to remember another username and password! In this blog post, we’ll explain more about this update and how to get started.

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Robot Lab

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By Ellie Gabel Photo by : Unsplash STEM education is critical for the long-term success of electric vehicles and clean energy. These industries remain relatively new to educators and students alike. Expanding coverage of electrification technologies will ensure the next generation has the knowledge and skills they need to contribute to positive, long-term growth in sustainability initiatives.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Futurum Careers is five years old! Tweet Share 0 Skype Reddit +1 Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email In September 2018, co-founders Brett Langenberg and Karen Lindsay published the first Futurum magazine: Social Mobility and the Sciences. That issue marked the launch of Futurum Careers and, five years on, this is our 22 nd. Join us as we look back over the years and celebrate the milestones that have contributed to Futurum’s ongoing success.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Recent years have seen a boom in the power of plants. Before the current trends of plant-based diets and natural oils gained popularity, chemist Percy Lavon Julian recognized plants’ beneficial role in human health. Despite facing many challenges as an African American during segregation, Julian played a significant role in revolutionizing the pharmaceutical industry.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Introducing the free bioscience and biotech education initiatives supported by the Amgen Foundation Published: Established by Amgen, one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, the Amgen Foundation is committed to advancing excellence in science education and making a difference in Amgen communities. The Foundation’s president, Scott Heimlich , describes how its four core philanthropic initiatives are having a lasting, positive impact on teachers and students.

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MooMoo Math & Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I live in the southern portion of the US and therefore have the joy of experiencing seasons. I really enjoy summer but then after a while I look forward to fall and cooler temperatures. Once I get used to cold temperatures I appreciate the winter, but near the end I can't wait for spring to arrive. In reality seasons only occur in two regions of the world.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How to be an inventor and entrepreneur Published: 26-year-old Anthony Camu has been awarded the Innovate UK’s Young Innovators Award for Theia , a handheld orientation and mobility device for blind and partially sighted people. He talks us through his entrepreneurial journey, from the conception and development of the device at Loughborough University to founding his start-up Theia Robotics.

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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!

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Online Math for All

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Greatest Common Factor Word Problems

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A summer institute participant asks: I had a quick physics question from one of your daily quizzes: Which is moving faster, a car with an acceleration of 2 m/s/s, or an airplane with an acceleration of 2 m/s/s? My answer was airplane but my students are not happy with that answer. Is there any way you could explain it to me so I make sure I am telling them the correct answer?

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Online Math for All

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Graphing Linear Inequalities in Two Variables

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

HOUSTON — On a Tuesday in August, one day before the official start of the school year, the halls of Jefferson Early Learning Center were filled with the tinkling chatter of pre-K students who were escorted by their parents to meet the teachers. But to reach those classrooms, families had to traverse the parking lot in the choking Texas heat, which rolled off the pavement in waves.

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Online Math for All

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

SAT Math Graphing Systems of Inequalities

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How can we unravel the complex history of networks? Published: Infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, can spread rapidly from person to person, resulting in a vast and complex network of infected individuals. Throughout your life, you will meet new people, make new friends and form new relationships, building an ever-evolving social network. At Rutgers University in the US, Dr Min Xu has developed a model that can unpick the history of networks such as these, helping everyone from epidemiologist

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Online Math for All

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Linear Inequalities and Graphs Worksheet

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