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Tech Tip #45 My Screen is Sideways!!

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: How to fix a tilted screen Category: Problem-solving Q: My screen is sideways 90 degrees.

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When Crisis Happens, Schools Should Handle Students With Care

ED Surge

Content warning: gun violence. The morning of Oct. 24, 2022, I was facilitating a meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia for education and youth development leaders when I got word that my 15-year-old godson had been shot at his high school in St. Louis, where I live. He was alive, seriously wounded and being treated at our local children’s hospital. One of the meeting attendees was my friend and colleague, Chidi Jenkins.

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Strategies For An Interactive Math Class

Accelerate Learning

Math class can be a challenge for many students, particularly those who struggle with the subject. However, by making math class more interactive, teachers can help students better understand and retain the material while increasing their engagement and enthusiasm. This is especially important as more and more students are playing catch-up due to pandemic math learning loss.

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STEM Ambassadors: National Schools’ Observatory supports One Million Interactions

All About STEM

On the 19th of December 2022, the National Schools’ Observatory and Astrophysicists from Liverpool John Moores University broadcast their third festive space-themed event for children aged 7 – 11. The Merseyside and Cheshire STEM Ambassador Hub supported school recruitment for this session and over 13,000 pupils joined STEM Ambassadors who are part of the One Million Interactions STEM Ambassador.

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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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Afterschool and Summer Learning: An Unprecedented Opportunity to Engage Students in STEM

STEM Next

This month on the blog, we are thrilled to welcome one of the STEM Next Opportunity Fellows as a guest author. Dr. Holly Miller serves as the Afterschool and Summer Learning Fellow at the Institute of Education Sciences at the US Department of Education. Dr. Miller brings a wealth of expertise to her position at the Department including serving as a former middle school STEM teacher and an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow in Senator Rosen’s office.

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The Water Princess Water Filter STEM Challenge

Carly and Adam

As an elementary school teacher, you are always on the lookout for engaging and educational activities to use in your classroom. With Earth Day right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to introduce your students to the importance of taking care of our planet's natural resources. One of our favorite activities to engage students in the real world is the Earth Day Water Filter STEM activity.

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IMechE Virtual Work Experience

All About STEM

What do careers in mechanical engineering really look like? You’ll be quite surprised! The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has partnered with Springpod to provide a virtual work experience program open to students in Years 10-13. There are countless roles with unlimited potential, that can really make a difference in all of our lives.

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Getting Started With First Grade STEM Activities and Challenges

Carly and Adam

Teaching STEM in first grade can be a little intimidating, but you can do it! We created a few activities for you to teach students what an engineer is, how to be curious throughout the school year, how to use their imagination to design new ideas, and what science is. All of these STEM Challenges can be found inside the STEM Teachers Club Membership.

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How Hot is Fire?

Smore Science

Table of Contents According to scientists, early humans started using fire approximately one million years ago. The discovery of fire has been considered to be one of the first great innovations of humankind. Scientists also hypothesize that the use of fire played a role in the evolution of humans. This is known as the cooking hypothesis. Fire is a part of many other processes apart from cooking.

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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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3 Tips for Teaching Force and Motion to Kindergarten Students

Carly and Adam

The concepts of force and motion are essential to science education and are important for students to understand as early as kindergarten. In simple terms, force is a push or a pull on an object, while motion is the movement of an object. Understanding the relationship between force and motion is key to understanding how objects move in the world around us.

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Colossal Squid

STEMe

Houston, TX Have you heard of the Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltoni)? It’s a massive squid that holds multiple records. It is also called the Antarctic squid or the Giant Cranch Squid. They live in Antarctica or in the Southern Ocean, at depths of 1,000 meters or more. Very little is known about the Colossal Squid because only a few have been caught and very little has been studied.

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Teaching Students to Read Science Informational Text

Amy Brown Science

Science surrounds us every single day. From shopping at the grocery store for probiotic yogurts and organically grown produce to news stories on earthquakes, climate change, vaccines, and toxic chemical clouds produced from a train derailment. As a result, it is more important than ever that we teach our science students how to read "science informational text.

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Khan Academy redux

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This is another throwback post, this time from February 5, 2013. It was originally posted at the old Casting Out Nines blog at the Chronicle. I didn't look at the date before I picked this one, but I have a knack for finding these throwback posts that were from almost the exact same date as today; this time almost exactly 10 years ago. The "redux" in the title refers to a resurfacing of an earlier post, mentioned in the first paragraph, that still is one of the most-read and most-re

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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!