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Tech Tip #75: Laptop Frozen? Here’s What You Do

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Laptop frozen? Do this. Category: Security, Problem-solving.

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Top Five Summer STEM Activities For Kids and Families

Career in STEM

Looking for some fun summer STEM activities? Don’t be bored at home this summer! Here are some of my favorite ideas to get active, engaged, and exploring in STEM all summer long: Museums and Libraries. Your local libraries and museums are a great resource. Many offer summer programs for kids to keep them engaged over the summer and prevent learning loss.

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Subscriber Special: Special Add-on with School License

Ask a Tech Teacher

June 4th-8th: Buy a K-8 School License. get 3 free print books of the grade level you purchased. (domestic purchase or freight-forwarders only). Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. Between June 4th-8th get three per grade level. That’s enough for a team to each have one. To take advantage of this special, purchase from Structured Learning with PayPal or a PO.

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Circumference of a circle using the circumference formula

Basic-Mathematics

How to calculate the circumference of a circle using the circumference formula and the value of pi.

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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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Math Gifts for Kids

STEM Sport

Math is among the most widely used skill that students learn during their education. Regardless of job title and lifestyle, people use math in their daily life. This makes teaching kids math fundamentals an essential part of early childhood education. Math is a subject that can be daunting to students, leading to a lack of confidence in the subject.

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How do Hurricanes Form ?

Smore Science

A typical hurricane begins all the way in Africa. At the edge of the Sahara desert, hot, dry air meets the cool, wet air over the coastal forest. These air masses are so different from each other that they make wind where they meet. The wind blows to the east, and is called the African Easterly Jet. The African Easterly Jet wiggles around. Every two or three days, this creates a “wave,” that can become a group of thunderstorms.

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Problem Decomposition

Computer Science K-8

Big Problems, Little Problems … just breath and think. A problem is that this book is not free, so leaves out the very students who are stressed and need access to this story. Time to put heart over money. It is chemistry: colostrum + testosterone … building health together. We need champions to help children practice what this dad does to teach his son to solve the daily challenges of life.

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Characteristics of Crustaceans

MooMoo Math & Science

Characteristics of Crustaceans Humans have 206 bones in their body. The average cat has 244 bones in its body. Snakes, the most bony animals, have around 1800 bones! Can you guess how many bones a lobster has? A lobster belongs to the phylum Arthropoda and the Subphylum crustacea. Arthropods are the most abundant category of animals on earth. It is estimated that between 75-84% of all animals on earth belong to this category.

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More than just a science magazine for kids: Smore

Smore Science

Smore is an informative, engaging, and beautifully illustrated science magazine for kids. It will educate, challenge, and encourage kids to love STEM. What is STEM education, and why is it important? I’m sure you’ve heard of one of the hottest buzzwords in the field of education these days. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.

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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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Meeting 7 of the Inclusive Science Education Group (systemic instruction for learners with SEND)

Fiendishly Clever

Background The inclusive science group is made of interested educators from all phases and sectors who have an interest in teaching students who have additional support needs or special educational needs. It is organised by Rob Butler from the ASE and Jane Essex (ASE and RSC member), who both have an interest in this area … Continue reading "Meeting 7 of the Inclusive Science Education Group (systemic instruction for learners with SEND)".

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In Kansas City Now.

Jacobs Physics

It's been three long years in the wilderness, but the AP Physics readers are finally gathered in Kansas City. We have 500(!) readers now - when I started in 1999, there were 79. Point is, I don't see everyone every day! If you're here and want to say hi, you can find me in the Loews lobby most nights after dinner; or Edna and I are grading the P1 non-operational exams in the room by the snacks.

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Meeting 8 of the Inclusive Science Education Group (vocabulary)

Fiendishly Clever

Background The inclusive science group is made of interested educators from all phases and sectors who have an interest in teaching students who have additional support needs or special educational needs. It is organised by Rob Butler from the ASE and Jane Essex (ASE and RSC member), who both have an interest in this area … Continue reading "Meeting 8 of the Inclusive Science Education Group (vocabulary)".

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Convert from Decimal to Percent

Basic-Mathematics

Learning how to convert a number from decimal to percent is the goal of this lesson.

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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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Meeting 7 of the Inclusive Science Education Group (systemic instruction for learners with SEND)

Fiendishly Clever

Background The inclusive science group is made of interested educators from all phases and sectors who have an interest in teaching students who have additional support needs or special educational needs. It is organised by Rob Butler from the ASE and Jane Essex (ASE and RSC member), who both have an interest in this area … Continue reading "Meeting 7 of the Inclusive Science Education Group (systemic instruction for learners with SEND)".

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Celebrate PRIDE in STEM with EiE!

EiE Blog

This PRIDE month, we’re thrilled to celebrate LGBTQIA+ People in STEM.

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Meeting 8 of the Inclusive Science Education Group (vocabulary)

Fiendishly Clever

Background The inclusive science group is made of interested educators from all phases and sectors who have an interest in teaching students who have additional support needs or special educational needs. It is organised by Rob Butler from the ASE and Jane Essex (ASE and RSC member), who both have an interest in this area … Continue reading "Meeting 8 of the Inclusive Science Education Group (vocabulary)".

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