Tue.May 31, 2022

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Mindfulness–its place in the classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teaching Channel is one of my favorite hands-on resources for how to teach. They offer lots of videos from the classroom, showing teachers at work, but also well thought out discussions on topics that impact education. This one is on mindfulness. I hope you enjoy it: Mindfulness to Calm, Focus, & Learn. By Alexa Simon on May 5, 2022. Mindfulness is a health and well-being practice utilized by families from around the world.

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Nitro Type- Learn Typing through Competitive Racing Games

Educators Technology

Nitro Type is a free online car racing game that helps players enhance their typing skills through competing with other players in real-time. Each player has a race car whose speed is determined by.read more.

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Summer Sphero Care

STEM Education Works

Your room is packed up for the summer. The posters are down from the walls for that district-wide painting project. You are just about ready to turn off the lights and lock the door for the last time before summer vacation. But wait! Have you made plans to care for your Sphero robots? In this week’s blog, we’ll look at ways to make sure your Spheros will be ready to go for the new school year (even if you aren’t).

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Cool Math Games- Free Online Math Games for Kids and Students

Educators Technology

Cool Math Games offers access to a wide range of free math challenges that helps students sharpen their mathematical skills. These include free thinking, strategy, and logic games. Cool Math.read more.

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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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Motivating Teachers in Challenging Times

Middle Web

Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn have advice that can help school leaders stay attuned to today’s constantly changing school environment, recognize the stress of external factors, and use strategies that encourage teachers’ intrinsic motivation and sense of self-efficacy. The post Motivating Teachers in Challenging Times first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Three Inventions by Asian American Innovators You Should Know!

EiE Blog

As AAPI Heritage Month and Inventors Month are celebrated in classrooms across the country, we’re excited to highlight inventions from Asian American and Pacific Islanders that made the world a better place.

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Meeting 6 of the Inclusive Science Education Group

Fiendishly Clever

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 of … Continue reading "Meeting 6 of the Inclusive Science Education Group".

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Facts About Mary Anning: Discover the Famous Fossil Hunter

Smore Science

Have you ever seen a fossil? Maybe you’ve held one in your hands and touched your fingertips on the ridges imprinted into the rock. You can probably even recognize the beautiful swirled shape of an ammonite. Maybe you recognise the distinctive teeth of ancient dinosaurs. But for most of human history, we had no idea what created these strange rocks.

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Increasing Access to Advanced STEM Courses

CSTEM

Written by: Reagan Flowers, Ph.D. This time of year is always an exciting one. My team and I get to celebrate the achievements of our STEM students as they graduate and move on to the next steps in their paths. However, as we celebrate these inspiring grads, we also continue to look forward proactively to those who will graduate in the coming years.

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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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Who was Mary Anning ?

Smore Science

Have you ever seen a fossil? Maybe you’ve held one in your hands and touched your fingertips on the ridges imprinted into the rock. You can probably even recognize the beautiful swirled shape of an ammonite. Maybe you recognise the distinctive teeth of ancient dinosaurs. But for most of human history, we had no idea what created these strange rocks.

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Summer Camp STEM (Fun Projects)

Teachers are Terrific

Summer camp is the perfect setting for STEM activities- many of which can be completed outdoors. Kids love STEM and summertime is the perfect time to continue to work on those collaboration skills. I have some super engaging challenges to share with you! Tips for the summer camp STEM projects are sprinkled throughout this post! Water Slides. We have always completed the water slide challenge indoors, but this one, in particular, would be great outside.

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Play for Big Kids: 4 Ways to Encourage Play For Those Too Cool to Play

Carly and Adam

The following is a guest post from Erik Murray. Recently, I took my two toddlers to the Discovery Museum in Acton, Massachusetts. It’s one of those places that every time we go, we find something new and exciting to play around with. The thing that caught my eye was a large poster of a quote by Albert Einstein: “Play is the highest form of research.

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My Green World

Scientix

Summary. My Green World project aimed to raise students’ environmental awareness and introduce them to the physiological and geographical characteristics of plants, trees, grass and shrubs. The project took place for three months and counted on the participation of 85 students, between 12 and 15 years old, and 15 teachers from Europe and Asia. The project applied the blended learning model to overcome the limitations set by the covid19 pandemic.

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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 5 of the Inclusive Science Education group (working with visually impaired learners)

Fiendishly Clever

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 of … Continue reading "Meeting 5 of the Inclusive Science Education group (working with visually impaired learners)".

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N.E. Sci-Tech Celebrates Ham Radio Field Day, June 25-26

Newton STEM

The New England Sci-Tech (NEST) STEM education center will celebrate ARRL Field Day — a worldwide event for amateur radio operators — with a family friendly Ham Radio Field Day open to the public, on June 25 (2PM-5PM) and June 26 (10AM-2PM) at 16 Tech Circle, off Route 9 in Natick. There will be tours of the NEST center, soldering workshops, maker activities, hidden transmitter hunts, and radio-operator license testing.

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Meeting 6 of the Inclusive Science Education Group

Fiendishly Clever

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 of … Continue reading "Meeting 6 of the Inclusive Science Education Group".

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Free Long Division Worksheets

Basic-Mathematics

A variety of long division worksheets with remainders and without remainders and from easy to difficult.

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Meeting 5 of the Inclusive Science Education group (working with visually impaired learners)

Fiendishly Clever

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 of … Continue reading "Meeting 5 of the Inclusive Science Education group (working with visually impaired learners)".

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May 31, Worksheet on Ratio and Proportion

Online Math for All

Worksheet on Ratio and Proportion

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings. Published: May 31, 2022. Storms or hurricanes can damage buildings in a single incident. New engineering efforts at the Iowa State and Kansas State Universities are creating buildings adept at withstanding the effects of wind – not just through designing stronger structural systems, but by enabling the buildings to change their shape to adapt to changing wind conditions.

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May 31, Ratio and Proportion Worksheet with Answers

Online Math for All

Ratio and Proportion Worksheet with Answers

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Why Some Investors Say Edtech ‘Doom and Gloom’ is Overhyped

ED Surge

Like tech stocks in general, edtech has taken a nosedive over the past six months or so. There have been stunning valuation declines, with brand name failures like Robolex, once acclaimed as the “future of education”—seeing half its stock value vanish in the past year and with investors predicting more tough times ahead for the company’s shareholders.

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