Middle Web
MAY 1, 2022
To help kids capture the benefits of summer reading, ELA educator Kasey Short shares what you can do before summer break begins: communicate with families, motivate readers, provide book choices, increase access to books, and link students to public library summer programs. The post 27 Tips to Boost Kids’ Reading This Summer first appeared on MiddleWeb.
STEMe
MAY 1, 2022
-Houston, TX. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “When I admire the wonders of a sunset. My soul expands in the worship of the creator.” Sunrises and sunsets are two of the most famously beautiful occurrences in nature. What gives them their vibrant, unique colors? Pigmentation in the sky can be attributed to a phenomenon called scattering. Scattering occurs when rays of sunlight hit miniscule particles in the atmosphere, changing the direction of light.
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Newton STEM
MAY 1, 2022
Kids 4 Coding is offering an $80 discount through May 7 for its in-person summer STEM programs at Cambridge Matignon School or Roxbury Latin School , running weekly July 11-August 5. Weekly costs for these fun, engaging, and collaborative programs are $619 for full days or $319 for half days. Kids 4 Coding is also offering Virtual Summer Courses on a weekly basis in one-hour sessions with live instructors and small classes (5:1 ratio), June through August, at weekly costs starting at $319.
STEMe
MAY 1, 2022
– New York, NY. When students think of outer space, they typically recall watching videos about the planets within our solar system and not the role that space exploration has in our society today. Space exploration is essentially the branch of astronomy, astronautics, and space technology that involves the distant regions of outer space. After the first Sputnik and Explorer satellites were launched, scientists have been able to obtain wondrous information about the natural world and many facts
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.
Newton STEM
MAY 1, 2022
Representing Newton’s Russian School of Math, NSHS sophomore Elena Baskakova is one of the 67 nationwide winners of the United States Junior Math Olympiad (USAJMO), the top invitational competition hosted by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for students scoring high in the MAA’s American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME).
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Newton STEM
MAY 1, 2022
In this year’s New England Math League competitions, Newton middle-school students from several schools did well: In 6th Grade, Solomon Schechter Day School ranked 6th among 40 schools, and Zev K from there ranked among the top students in the league, along with these students from the Newton Chinese Language School: Grace Z (ranked 1st), Jason H, Edward L, Julia L, Sun M, Ryan L, and Freddie T.
STEMe
MAY 1, 2022
WRITTEN BY CONNOR WHITE. In 1991, a scientist named Sumio Iijima developed a material that consists of a single layer tube of carbon atoms bonded together. These tubes are called carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, and are a particularly useful part of nano technology. But how exactly are they made? What do we use them for now and what can we use them for going forward?
Newton STEM
MAY 1, 2022
Newton’s dual-high-school robotics team, the LigerBots , is finishing a year of success both in competitions and in community service. In FIRST Robotics Competition events: In the North Shore Competition in Reading, the LigerBots captained the second-seeded alliance and made it all the way to the semi-finals. The team also received FIRST’s coveted Gracious Professionalism Award.
Newton STEM
MAY 1, 2022
Boston Tech Mom has an informative profile of Day of AI , a new nationwide program from MIT RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education). Day of AI will be held on May 13 with registration and resources freely available to educators and families. See Boston Tech Mom’s post for details.
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