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7 Great Educational Halloween Games and Activities for Kids

Educators Technology

Halloween brings a lot of fun and joy to us all. It is about the time of the year when spooky and ghosty themes are everywhere. Our classrooms are no exception. Halloween infuses our classrooms with its fun spirit and boosts kids excitements. There are several educational ways to celebrate Halloween season with students in and out of class. Besides creating halloween-themed presentations using special Halloween PowerPoint and Google Slides templates , reading Halloween books created specifically

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Fun STEM Activities for Halloween and Thanksgiving

Career in STEM

These fall holiday activities will have you building skeletons, chucking pumpkins, exploring careers, and more! With Halloween and Thanksgiving seasons upon us, celebrate with the best STEM resources for home or classroom. Your students will be smiling, laughing, and learning along the way as they complete exciting activities paired with STEM careers.

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Explore Change and Possibility with the What Can Be Thinking Routine

Know Adam's Blog

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” -Voltaire. What Are Thinking Routines? Thinking routines allow you to give your students the tools they need to make their thinking visible. Instead of telling students what to think, we can introduce routines that students can use as tools to become skillful independent thinkers. Thinking routines work best when they are just that - routines.

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Helping Kids Become Math Problem Solvers

Middle Web

Learning to problem solve is no easy feat for the students or the teachers in math classrooms. 5th/6th grade teacher Mona Iehl shares ideas for incorporating practices in daily lessons that can help build a ‘safe and sure’ culture where reasoning and problem solving are the norm. The post Helping Kids Become Math Problem Solvers first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Explore Change and Possibility with the What Can Be Thinking Routine

Know Adam's Blog

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” -Voltaire. What Are Thinking Routines? Thinking routines allow you to give your students the tools they need to make their thinking visible. Instead of telling students what to think, we can introduce routines that students can use as tools to become skillful independent thinkers. Thinking routines work best when they are just that - routines.

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MassRobotics Jumpstart Fellowship Program: Registration open

Newton STEM

MassRobotics is recruiting the third cohort of its high-school Jumpstart Fellowship Program to improve diversity in the STEM workforce in Massachusetts. Through training, mentorship, and internships, a selected group of students in Grades 10-12 will learn about careers in robotics, develop professional networks via mentors and resumes / LinkedIn profiles, and gain exposure to technical skills in programming, design, simulation, prototyping, and testing.

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9 Best kiwiCo Alternatives & Competitors Compared in 2022

STEM Education Guide

Subscription boxes for kids are all the rave these days, in large part due to KiwiCo. But, you’re looking for KiwiCo alternatives or subscriptions like KiwiCo. The good news, there are a ton of STEM subscription boxes out there, and my kids have hand-tested dozen of them. My kids love KiwiCo. We’ve had a subscription for years, but that’s not to say we haven’t found great KiwiCo alternatives.

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M Snake: Friendly Math Competition for Grades 6-8, Nov. 12

Newton STEM

A group of Newton South HS students have created M Snake , a new, friendly, in-person math competition to introduce students in Grades 6-8 to the world of competitive math. It’s open to students living in Newton and/or attending NPS schools, and it’s designed for students with little or no experience in competitive math. The problems will be fun, exciting, and intuitive rather than strictly challenging, in order to foster excitement, exploration, and community.

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Register by Oct. 29 for MIT Splash — Grades 9-12, Nov. 19-20

Newton STEM

MIT’s Splash program runs for two days each year on the weekend before Thanksgiving — running in-person this year on November 19-20. Students in Grades 9-12 can take a wide range of mini-courses taught by MIT undergraduates and participate in drop-in activities. This year, Splash! is offering over 300 courses including many in Science , Computers & Programming , Engineering , and Mathematics.

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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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Grades 6-12: Register for Brandeis Splash!, Nov. 13

Newton STEM

Brandeis University’s Splash! — a free program of mini-courses taught by undergraduates for students in Grades 6-12 — will be held November 13 , Noon-5PM on the Brandeis campus. Take as many 50-minute courses as you wish. Bring or purchase your lunch on campus. Registration is open now until November 11. For more information, email ess-club@brandeis.edu.

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