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ABCya- Free Learning Games for Kids (Review)

Educators Technology

ABCya is a website that provides free learning games for kids in grades Pre K through 6. ABCya learning Games are organized by grade and subject area and cover a wide array of topics including.read more.

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Creating a Culture of Joy

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Can we have joy in schools? How about on social media? With so many difficulties, it seems beyond impossible sometimes to find joy but it can be done. Today, Dean Shareski, the author of Embracing a Culture of Joy brings his perspective to the challenges of modern living and learning.

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Are You a P-12 Educator Looking To Share Your Voice? Apply for Our Writing Fellowship

ED Surge

Over the past year, we’ve amplified the voices of educators as they navigated the fallout from the pandemic through our Voices of Change project, creating opportunities for educators to reflect, share and learn from one another through journalism, storytelling and research. We explored how school communities were adapting to meet the needs of all learners, particularly in response to the pandemic and the national conversation about racial identity and racism.

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Using Pre-Built Performance Tasks to Implement High-Quality PBL with Ease

Defined Learning

Many of you know and love meal kits – the kind you can order from Home Chef, Hello Fresh, Blue Apron or many other companies. I think they’re a fitting analogy to the kind of pre-built performance tasks offered by Defined Learning.

Learning 105
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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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Looking Beyond the Classroom to Get Students Back into Learning

STEM Next

Looking Beyond the Classroom to Get Students Back into Learning. A note from Ron Ottinger, Executive Director STEM Next Opportunity Fund. Everywhere we turn, we see headlines and stories hyper-focused on student “learning loss” with the release of daunting new data assessing student learning. It can be overwhelming at best. . However, this moment gives us the opportunity to address the issues with the proven measures we know work.

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Global Pandemics App Shares Fantastic Tales

Middle Web

Teacher educator Curtis Chandler guides us through Global Pandemics, a “fantastic” free Chrome app that transports teachers and students back in time to the lives, choices, and dilemmas faced by individuals during some of the most severe plagues and pandemics in history. The post Global Pandemics App Shares Fantastic Tales first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Understanding eruptions: how can we determine which volcanoes pose the greatest threat?

Futurum

Understanding eruptions: how can we determine which volcanoes pose the greatest threat? Published: June 1, 2022. For millennia, humans have looked upon volcanoes with a sense of awe and terror. Nowadays, we have a much deeper understanding of what volcanoes are and how they work. However, predicting when and where an eruption is going to occur is still a challenge.

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Whar are Bar graphs Good for ? Definition and Examples

Basic-Mathematics

This lesson shows how to understand data on bar graphs and how to construct a bar graph to represent data

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“I am a visiting international research student at the University of British Columbia”

MII-STEM

First of all, I am incredibly honored and happy to visit at the University of British Columbia (UBC) as a visiting international research student for 4 months, and I have to thank Prof. Chatree Faikhamta (advisor) and Prof. Samia Khan (co-advisor) for giving me this remarkable opportunity. Currently, I am a second-year Ph.D. student at … Continue reading "“I am a visiting international research student at the University of British Columbia”" The post “I am a visiting international research

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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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Prime Number - Definition and Examples

Basic-Mathematics

Definition of prime number. Recognize and identify prime and composite numbers.

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5 Cool Summer Programming Projects for Kids (Screen-Free Included!)

Stem Geek

Coding is no longer a complex field of science for the elite. As programming is becoming more and more popular amongst kids, parents are constantly looking for ways to get their children involved in this. The post 5 Cool Summer Programming Projects for Kids (Screen-Free Included!) appeared first on STEM Geek.

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Types of Solutions-Isotonic-Hypertonic-Hypotonic-Animation

MooMoo Math & Science

Matter can be classified as either a pure substance or a mixture. So let’s take a look at the difference between the two. A pure substance is either an element or a compound. All of the elements found on the periodic table are pure substances. They cannot be chemically separated. Compounds which are elements bonded together are also pure substances.

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“I am a visiting international research student at the University of British Columbia”

MII-STEM

First of all, I am incredibly honored and happy to visit at the University of British Columbia (UBC) as a visiting international research student for 4 months, and I have to thank Prof. Chatree Faikhamta (advisor) and Prof. Samia Khan (co-advisor) for giving me this remarkable opportunity. Currently, I am a second-year Ph.D. student at … Continue reading "“I am a visiting international research student at the University of British Columbia”".

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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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Informed K12 Recognizes Mental Health Awareness Month!

Informed K12

The month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month. During this time, we wanted to raise awareness about mental health, fight the stigma around mental health and educate and support members of our company about different resources they have available to them to support their own mental health.

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STEM Sports June Newsletter

STEM Sport

See what STEM Sports has been up to this month. View full newsletter.

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Teachers of the Year Say Educators Deserve More Trust

ED Surge

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig. WASHINGTON — Curiosity and creativity were on display when dozens of top teachers from around the U.S. gathered on the National Mall at the end of April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers.

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June is Internet Safety Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

June is National Internet Safety Month , thanks to a resolution passed in 2005 by the U.S. Senate. The goal is to raise awareness about online safety for all, with a special focus on kids ranging from tots to teens. Children are just as connected to the Internet as adults. This is a great list of internet cautions I got from an online efriend a few years ago.

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With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’

ED Surge

Diving into a magnified human cell. Studying stars from the surface of the moon. Tossing a Frisbee on the quad with a classmate who lives 700 miles away. These scenarios are far-fetched for most college students. Yet a new virtual reality experiment aims to make them possible. Ten higher education institutions across the U.S. have signed up to create digital versions of themselves that look 3D and feel immersive when accessed by students wearing VR headsets.

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Funding High-Quality Child Care Is A Popular Idea, So Treat It Like One, Researcher Says

ED Surge

Researcher Kathy Hirsch-Pasek has a challenge she would like to see lawmakers in the U.S. Congress take on—call it a dare. She wants all 535 of them to spend a day taking the lead in an early childhood classroom. Just one day would be enough to show the folks in Congress how difficult and important the work is, says Hirsch-Pasek, a psychology professor at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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