All About STEM

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If your learners want to know more about apprenticeships, they can try the new 2024 Apprenticeships Quiz! Amazing Apprenticeships has created a Riddle Quiz packed with information about apprenticeships. Students can find answers to these questions and many more: How much do you know about apprenticeships? Is an apprenticeship a real job? How many different apprenticeship roles are there?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is one of the most popular lessons I teach to Excel beginners. It is relevant, instantly usable and makes sense from the beginning. Before you start this one, you might want to complete Project 7 0 and 71. –from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom –image credit Deposit Photos Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Copyright ©2024 worddreams.wordpress.com – All rights reserved.

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All About STEM

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Is your school taking part in #StartSmallDreamBig? Wave 3 has just begun. Start Small; Dream Big is a £2.6 million programme from the Careers & Enterprise Company targeting 2,250 primary schools and 600,000 pupils from 55 Education Investment Areas (EIAs). The goal is to encourage children from disadvantaged backgrounds to dream big about their future careers.

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Box Light

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Father Yermo Schools in El Paso, TX, faced the challenge of engaging their students, especially in science and technology. To address this, they strategically invested in Mimio by Boxlight educational technology, including award-winning MimioSTEM solutions, aiming to enhance 21st-century skills.

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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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All About STEM

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Is your school taking part in #StartSmallDreamBig? Wave 3 has just begun. Start Small; Dream Big is a £2.6 million programme from the Careers & Enterprise Company targeting 2,250 primary schools and 600,000 pupils from 55 Education Investment Areas (EIAs). The goal is to encourage children from disadvantaged backgrounds to dream big about their future careers.

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Middle Web

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Eric Saunders provides well-researched neuroscience tips on spaced repetition, interleaving, and retrieval that can quickly advance student learning, says NBCT Megan Balduf. Use “Stick the Learning” to craft brain-savvy curricular experiences and scaffold their implementation. The post Teaching for Retention, Application and Transfer first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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ED Week

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For the first time in 20 years, "the nation's report card" is updating how it gauges students' understanding of science.

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Defined Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Project-based learning impacts social studies education by enhancing student engagement, deeper learning, literacy, development of future-ready skills, and more. The article delves into the intersection between PBL and social studies, provides examples of social studies projects, and addresses common concerns about implementing PBL.

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Nursery rhymes aren't just whimsical tales to entertain young minds; they also provide great opportunities for sparking creativity and problem-solving skills in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education. Through carefully crafted STEM challenges inspired by these beloved rhymes, educators can transform the classroom into a vibrant laboratory of exploration and discovery, where young learners embark on thrilling adventures while honing essential STEM competencies. 5 Nurse

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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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Teach Science for All

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If you’ve followed this blog for awhile then you know that I’m a big fan of Derek Muller’s Veritasium YouTube channel. I’ve probably shared more of Derek’s videos than anything else on this site.

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Can your students engineer a device to help the cow jump over the moon? Nursery rhymes aren't just whimsical tales to entertain young minds; they also provide great opportunities for sparking creativity and problem-solving skills in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education. Imagine a classroom buzzing with excitement as students become engineers tasked with a unique mission: designing and testing a device to help the cow jump over the moon.

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