Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 23, 2022
If you’re not familiar with Kiddom , you should be, especially in the changing environment of today’s classroom. Kiddom is an all-in-one education platform for remote or in-person learning or a hybrid of the two that provides a high-quality digital curriculum capable of integrating curriculum management, instruction, assessment, and communication tools into one location.
ED Surge
MAY 23, 2022
The pandemic forced lasting changes on the American education system. It also brought an explosion of private investments into edtech. What exactly that means for the future technology in schools is still uncertain. The pandemic bump that many edtech firms experienced has faded, but private capital’s interest in edtech, and in shaping the education system, remains.
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Educators Technology
MAY 23, 2022
Annotation is a great way to capture and record your thoughts as you interact with reading resources (e.g., web pages, documents, PDFs, images, and videos). Annotation also offers a deeper.read more.
ED Surge
MAY 23, 2022
Educator shortages continue to be a top concern for many. And the trend of teachers leaving the classroom is unlikely to reverse course anytime soon. In a recent National Education Association survey of roughly 3,600 educators, more than half indicated that they were likely to leave or retire from education sooner than planned because of the pandemic.
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.
Career in STEM
MAY 23, 2022
win $500 to launch your future STEM career, today! Dates: June 1 to August 16, 2022 Award Amount: $500. Description: In the Career In STEM® Summer Scholarship Contest you will plan, create, and share a Personal Passion Project (PPP). A PPP can be anything – create a video game, organize an event, invent something using engineering, it’s your call! The goal of the PPP is to take a deep dive on something you are interested in to build your talents and change the world ??
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User Generated Education
MAY 23, 2022
Toy Take Apart and Repurposing is always a great favorite both with my gifted students and with my campers during my summer Toy Hacking and Making camp. I purchase battery-operated toys from ebay and thrift stores. Because I am always seeking ways to improve my lessons, I was excited to add the repair mindset reflection, the micro:bit driven Plushpal, and circuit jewelry to this activity this past spring.
Career in STEM
MAY 23, 2022
win $500 to launch your future STEM career, today! Dates: June 1 to August 16, 2022 Award Amount: $500. Description: In the Career In STEM® Summer Scholarship Contest you will plan, create, and share a Personal Passion Project (PPP). A PPP can be anything – create a video game, organize an event, invent something using engineering, it’s your call! The goal of the PPP is to take a deep dive on something you are interested in to build your talents and change the world ??
MooMoo Math & Science
MAY 23, 2022
How to find the LCD When you add fractions the denominators of the fractions need to be equal. For example, when you add 1/4 plus 1/2 you need to find a lowest common denominator. Follow these steps to find the least common denominator. Step 1. Create a factor tree for each denominator. Step 2. Write the prime factors in a chart. ( You can see an example in the video) Step 3.
Smore Science
MAY 23, 2022
Have you ever thought of how everyday phenomena happen, such as small balls rolling faster than large balls? Why do you fall in the forward direction when a car stops suddenly? Or why does a rolling ball stop when it hits a wall? The answer to all these questions is hidden in Newton’s three laws of motion. You can find out more about these laws of motion with daily life examples in this article.
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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.
Online Math for All
MAY 23, 2022
SAT Math Questions on Inequalities
Carly and Adam
MAY 23, 2022
The following is a guest post from Dr. Jacie Maslyk. If you teach in the upper elementary grades 3-5, you know that a great piece of children’s literature can help to set the stage for any STEM lesson or an engaging engineering design challenge. You may have your own “go-to” read alouds , but here are some of our favorites. All of these books have connections to science, technology, engineering, and/or math.
Futurum
MAY 23, 2022
What lessons can we learn from past pandemics? Published: May 23, 2022. The mortality rate of the 1918 influenza pandemic was several times higher than for COVID-19. At the University of Missouri , USA, Taylor van Doren and Professor Lisa Sattenspiel are investigating the impacts of the 1918 pandemic in Newfoundland, Canada, from a biological anthropology perspective.
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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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