ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Three young trees stood in a schoolyard, their branches reaching out for the sun, casting stripes of shade on the newly seeded grass below. With each passing day, two of them grew stronger, taller, thicker. Their deep roots built pathways that strengthened their foundation to grow. Yet while two of the young trees flourished, one did not. One young tree felt farther and farther from the sun as her peers grew stronger around her.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A lot of teacher-authors read both my education blog (this one–Ask a Tech Teacher) and my writer’s blog (WordDreams). In this monthly column, I share a popular post from the past month on my writer’s blog, WordDreams I’ve started a new collaboration over there with an exciting writer’s blog called Story Empire. My column is: What’s happening in the literary world?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on the greatest challenge of all: Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. Climbing Everest involves hiking for many hours per day, every day, for several weeks.

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All About STEM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Educators and STEM Ambassadors can access STEM Learning’s free Community platform to connect with peers, find resources, discuss best practice and share ideas. STEM Ambassadors Community STEM Ambassadors can join the STEM Ambassadors Community to collaborate, ask for advice and discover new ways to inspire young people with other volunteers, wherever they are in the UK.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Zachary Jackson thinks a lot about what his students may be learning from him in class. For some of his first graders in Atlanta, that goes beyond the actual academic lessons. They are also practicing how to be a man. For Jackson, the question of how to model manhood is an obsession, something he thinks about all the time. He’s worked with kids since 2018 through Wings for Kids, a nonprofit that operates after-school programs in Georgia and South Carolina.

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Defined Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Employability skills — such as problem-solving, teamwork, work ethic, communication, and leadership — have become an essential outcome of classroom teaching and are critical to prepare students for future careers. Career-connected learning exposes students to a wide variety of potential careers and prepares them for the future of the modern workforce.

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As students move into middle and high school , it becomes increasingly challenging for them to maintain excitement and enthusiasm for subjects like math and science. This difficulty could be because this age group tends to be distracted by their social life and other outside activities, which makes it hard for teachers to capture and hold their student’s attention.

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Middle Web

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Social media can disrupt concentration and healthy social development in adolescents. To counter its effects, principal Mike Gaskell looks at causes and suggests one helpful strategy to reduce stress and anxiety – ambient sound. Build the focus and flow students need to thrive. The post A Tool to Help Reduce Social Media’s Ill Effects first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Love Learning STEM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Are you looking for hands-on fossil activities for kids? Take your 4th-grade students on an exciting journey with hands-on fossil learning. Today, we’re diving into the fascinating world of rock formations and fossils! Picture this: your classroom buzzing with curiosity as students embark on a hands-on exploration of rocks and fossils. From towering mountains to ancient artifacts buried beneath the surface, there’s so much to discover and learn about.

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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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STEM Next

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Ever wonder what engineers, doctors, and tech gurus do in their free time? In 2021, STEM Next and the Teen Science Café Network joined together to expand the answer to questions like that for students across the country. With the support of afterschool educators, teens lead the execution of Teen Science Cafés with STEM experts of greatest student interest.

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Free St. Patrick’s Day Activity (Creativity Challenge) Teachers, are you looking for a free resource for St. Patrick’s Day? Spark your students’ creativity this Saint Patrick’s Day with the 6 Clovers Creativity Challenge. These clovers serve as a canvas for students to transform them into various objects, unleashing their imagination. What are creativity challenges?

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Online Math for All

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Easy Way to Find Square Root of a Number

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Online Math for All

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Percent Proportion Worksheet

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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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