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Tech Tools for Reading Fluency

Ask a Tech Teacher

SmartBrief has an excellent article worth your time to read: Top 5 tech tools to maximize reading fluency. It is written from the perspective of a 2nd-grade teacher: Teaching in a pandemic presented teachers with a whole new batch of problems to solve, whether through distance, hybrid or in-person learning models. Putting all technicalities and connectivity issues aside, teachers wanted to maximize engagement and student learning all the more. .

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Edtech Is Looking to Build Tools to Foster Student Engagement. Can That Scale?

ED Surge

Finding community is a vulnerable, difficult experience—especially as a student. It requires not only feeling comfortable with your peers, but also trusting them enough to be able to ask questions and learn without fear of judgment. I’ve been lucky—I found my first community during freshman year of undergrad. Sitting in the common room at 2 a.m., panicking together with fellow students the night before an exam, we forged lasting bonds.

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How to Start Class with Opening Questions

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As teachers, we have many ways to open class. Bell ringers, conversation starters, and even special handshakes can open class. But what if the answer is a question that helps create social connections? Dr. Leigh Zeitz from the University of Northern Iowa surveys his students.

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WHY STEM EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS?

STEM Discovery

STEM education, from an educator’s point of view; Although it is defined as a rich set of activities that replace the lesson-based teaching strategy with more student-centered strategies based on inquiry and project, it is actually a concept that structures … Continue reading → The post WHY STEM EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS?

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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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Apr 11, Trigonometric Ratios of 90 Degree Minus Theta

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Apr 11, How to Find the Direction Cosines of a Vector With Given Ratios

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We Program And Solve Daily Life Problems.

STEM Discovery

Attention and Motivation Phase: Puzzle/Algorithmic Problem Solving GameStudents are divided into groups. 2 rules of the game are given. There are 6 stones in the game, 3 White and 3 Black. Whites and blacks are lined up side by side … Continue reading → The post We Program And Solve Daily Life Problems. appeared first on The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog.

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Tucker Elementary – STEM Field Trip (4.8.2022)

Northeastern University

On Friday, April 8th we had our penultimate field trip of the academic school year, wherein we went to visit the fourth graders at the Tucker Elementary School in Milton. Thank you Professor Eno Ebong for sponsoring this field trip, and PhD students Chinedu and Nicholas from her lab for helping out (and Hadeel and Tasha from our office as well!). Working in the library of the school, we ran the day’s activity for 2 groups of kids, for a total of 75 fourth graders.

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Bird Characteristics

MooMoo Math & Science

All about Birds Birds range in size from the tiny two-inch bee hummingbird to the nine-foot ostrich. There are over 10,000 species of birds and it is estimated that there are 50 billion birds on planet Earth. So what are some common characteristics of birds? Let’s take a look at some characteristics of Birds. Birds are the only living animal with feathers.

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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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Celebrate with Staff as a Challenging Year Ends

Middle Web

The end of every school year is always frantic. Especially this year, plan year-end celebrations that reflect your school’s values and recognize everything the staff has done to assure a successful school year, recommend Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn. The post Celebrate with Staff as a Challenging Year Ends first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Apr 11, Direction Cosines and Ratios

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Why LMS Migrations Need to Be Automated

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Over the past couple of decades, the explosion in online learning has brought with it never-before-seen innovation that has completely transformed the higher education landscape. Yet, as we’ve seen this spike in edtech innovation happening across the globe and real problems getting solved with powerful technology, it’s important to note that some big problems still exist.

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Apr 11, Trigonometric Ratios of 270 Degree Minus Theta

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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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Apr 11, Trigonometric Ratios of 180 Degree Plus Theta

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Apr 11, Trigonometric Ratios of Negative Angles

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Apr 11, Trigonometric Ratios of 270 Degree Plus Theta

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Apr 11, Trigonometric Ratios of Supplementary Angles

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Apr 11, Example Problems on Surface Area with Combined Solids

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Example Problems on Surface Area with Combined Solids

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Apr 11, Faces Edges and Vertices

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Apr 11, Problems on Surface Area of Combined Shapes

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Problems on Surface Area of Combined Shapes

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Apr 11, Combined Shapes

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Apr 11, Total Surface Area of Combined Solid

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Total Surface Area of Combined Solid

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Apr 11, Faces Edges and Vertices Worksheet

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Faces Edges and Vertices Worksheet

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Apr 12, Joint Relative Frequency Worksheet

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Joint Relative Frequency Worksheet

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Apr 11, Combined Figures

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Combined Figures - Examples

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Apr 11, Combined Figures Worksheet

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Combined Figures Worksheet

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Apr 11, Trigonometric Ratios of 180 Degree Minus Theta

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