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9 Outdoor STEM Activities That Bring Science Learning Out Into Nature

Accelerate Learning

Every teacher and parent has seen the benefits of outdoor play for kids. And a lot of adults feel that time spent playing and exploring outdoors was the best part of their childhood! Various research studies have found that outdoor play, whether structured or unstructured, offers benefits to a child’s emotional state, attention span, physical fitness, imagination, and more.

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20 Ways to Celebrate National STEM Day 2022

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Christmas and Fourth of July are great – don’t get us wrong – but we really break out our party pants when it’s time to celebrate National STEM Day. National STEM Day 2022 falls on November 8th, and this year, we’d love to party with you and your budding scientists, engineers, and mathematicians! What is National STEM Day? The Thimble.

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Protected: #CelebratewithDE: Native American Heritage Month

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Using 3D Printing to Review Plate Tectonics

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In this lesson, our STEM MimioMaster Meredith Williams shares how she used the MyStemKits Continents Kit and Earth Layers Kit to review plate tectonics.

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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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Subscriber Special: Free K-8 Hour of Code Lesson Plans

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. November 4-8th. Buy the K-8 curriculum ; get the 55-page Hour of Code bundle for free. Perfect if you’re doing Hour of Code in December. Email us at askatechteacher at gmail dot com with your receipt. We’ll verify and then send you the bundle.

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STEM as a Time Machine

Get Caught Engineering

Integrating STEM into History. Throughout the ages, history is full of amazing engineers and inventors. Integrating STEM into our history lessons requires looking at the different events through a different lens. The benefits to such integration are an increased insight to a past society’s accomplishments and a better understanding of the problems faced by earlier civilizations.

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Learn Simple & Easy Paper Folding Activities, You can do with Your Children at Home

STEM Education Guide

It is always fun being with your kids doing fun activities at home. In this article, you’ll learn fun paper-folding activities; this is a step-by-step process you can do with your kids. You can do many activities with your kids at home, but if you want artistic and creative, Origami might be for you. Awesome Paper Folding Samples. In this activity, you can do it with any colored, art paper, or special paper, as long as it is easy and soft to fold.

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What You Need to Know About Monkeypox

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Atlantic City, NJ. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the world as we knew it turned upside down. Schools shut down, social distancing was enforced, and people had to wear a mask in public. After about two years of chaos, the pandemic began to die down and life started to return to normal. However, recently there has been a new disease spreading around the globe called monkeypox.

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Nov 5, Standard Form to Vertex Form by Completing the Square Worksheet

Online Math for All

Standard Form to Vertex Form by Completing the Square Worksheet

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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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Here is How to Easily Blur Background in Zoom

Educators Technology

Zoom is a great video conferencing tool for us in education. From hosting online classes to conducting webinars and organizing virtual meetups, Zoom is absolutely a reliable platform to do the job in the best way possible. Over the years, and especially since the outbreak of the pandemic Zoom has introduced a wide variety of interesting features making it one of the best free video conferencing tools out there.

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Nov 4, How to Find the Vertex of a Parabola

Online Math for All

How to Find the Vertex of a Parabola - Concept - Examples

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Finding Aliens: The Drake Equation

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Houston, TX. Aliens. Are they real? Do they truly exist? Not the UFOs, the unexplained sightings, the suspicious shadows of life we conspiracize on Earth--a million light years away, is anything alive ? And will we ever know? Who should we consult--a Reddit Post from 2013 ranting about the mysteries of alien life? A theorist on YouTube compiling blurry videos of even blurrier smudges?

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Nov 5, Standard Form to Vertex Form by Completing the Square

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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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I Never Wanted to Be a School Administrator. Here’s Why I Changed My Mind.

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“Congratulations on your promotion, on becoming the dean! You’re in charge now!” a parent yells from his car in the midst of dismissal. My stomach is in knots as the words “in charge” echo across the parking lot. I pause, pondering the best way to respond. I force a smile in gratitude. “I am still a teacher, and grateful to be part of a strong team,” I quickly say, before getting in my car.

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Nov 4, Intercept Form Equation of a Parabola Worksheet

Online Math for All

Intercept Form Equation of a Parabola Worksheet

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Nov 4, Intercept Form Equation of a Parabola

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Intercept Form Equation of a Parabola

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Nov 4, Vertex Form Equation of a Parabola

Online Math for All

Vertex Form Equation of a Parabola

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Nov 4, Vertex of a Parabola Worksheet

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Vertex of a Parabola Worksheet

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Nov 4, Vertex Form Equation of a Parabola Worksheet

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