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Teaching Students Empathy in the Classroom

Teach Hub

How do you teach students to care? Is it even possible? Teaching students to care can feel like a tall order as an educator , but its absolutely possible. Developing empathy starts with helping kids become more aware of others’ feelings. When students learn to express their feelings and understand others’ needs, they can interact better.

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Genius Hours: What is it? Why? Quick How-to, and a Lesson Plan (for a small fee)

Ask a Tech Teacher

Genius Hour Overview The Genius Hour Project traditionally sets aside 20% of class time to pursue a topic students are passionate about. An after school setting follows these basics, but adapted to a full-time exploration of the topic. Basics While immersing themselves in a topic they love, Genius Hour also teaches students how to pursue a goal important to them.

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Art Saved My Life When I Was a Student. Now, It's Helping My Multilingual Learners.

ED Surge

Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students' attention. Class, class! I called. Yes, yes, they responded in unison. I have a recognition to make. I held up one of my fourth grade students perspective drawings and projected it for the class to see. His carefully rendered parallel, vertical and diagonal lines converging at the vanishing point created a stunning visual.

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CREST Awards: British Science Week Activity Packs

All About STEM

The NEW British Science Week Activity Packs are OUT NOW! Choose from Early Years, Primary or Secondary. The British Science Association has created these booklets in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and they are brilliant resources packed with project ideas and information on running CREST Awards.

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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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Hooking the Reluctant Reader in Your Class

Teach Hub

One of the most challenging things a teacher has to deal with is watching one of their students struggle to read. While theres no one-size-fits-all solution, there are effective strategies that can make a real difference. If you want to help a hesitant reader change from not liking the library to loving it, these tips can help. Understanding the Reluctant Reader What exactly makes a child a reluctant reader?

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Can ‘Math Therapists’ Make a Dent In America’s Declining Math Performance?

ED Surge

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.

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National Apprenticeship Week: Daily Themes & Toolkits

All About STEM

National Apprenticeship Week aims to showcase apprentices, employers, training providers and those across the country who have benefitted from incredible apprenticeship opportunities. Find out how you can celebrate with your students each day using the National Apprenticeship Week Toolkits.

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Have Fun Developing Creative Writing Skills

Middle Web

Creative writing exercises offer low stakes, high engagement opportunities for students to build writing skills while also having fun. Kasey Short shares a rich collection of character, plot and setting activities to help kids develop their voices as writers through the year. The post Have Fun Developing Creative Writing Skills first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Jan 22, Given Composite Function : How to Find the Inside or Outside Function

Online Math for All

How to Find the Inside or Outside Function From the Given Composite Function

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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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How Enrollment in the 100 Largest School Districts Has Changed Since the Pandemic

ED Surge

Recent federal data on school enrollment adds more detail to the picture we have about falling numbers of students in the nations public K-12 classrooms. Most of the countrys 100 largest districts by enrollment have seen declines since the 2019-20 school year. The National Center for Education Statistics released its data for 2023-24 in December. Nine out of the 10 biggest districts including New York City, Los Angeles and Miami-Dade have seen enrollment dip by up to 13 percent compared to the

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Join The Big Assembly 2025!

All About STEM

You can take part in The Big Assembly during National Apprenticeship Week! The Big Assembly is the UK’s largest live-streamed event dedicated to apprenticeships. It is a free interactive digital broadcast, with audiences of hundreds of thousands of students from across the UK simultaneously participating in conversations about their futures.

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Does Math Class Have To Be Fun All Year?

Middle Web

Recently when Michelle Russell noticed that winter had drained the joy from her math classroom, she set out to reignite the glow. Checking with other teachers in person and online, she found tools that work. Trashetball, row games, and buzzer competitions top her new list. The post Does Math Class Have To Be Fun All Year? first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Plan It, Print It, Innovate It: How MimioSTEM Inspires Possibility

Box Light

They love the 3D printers, said Riann Offutt-Price, STEM teacher at Cheatham County School District in Tennessee. They love to watch them. They like to see what we're printing, how long it's going to take. Its pretty mind-blowing for them. Since the district introduced MimioSTEM solutions, learners have been immersed in innovative technologies that spark curiosity, foster creativity and bring science, technology, engineering, and math to life.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her. Since 2010, Rhue has been a school librarian at Providence Englewood Charter School, a preK-8 school on the South Side of Chicago serving primarily Black and brown students wh

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National Careers Week 2025: Resources & Activities

All About STEM

The theme for this year is ‘You Can!’ National Careers Week is a celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education taking place across the UK from the 3rd to the 8th of March. “The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people develop awareness and excitement about their future pathways.

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STEM Everyday #287 | Resources & Experience in STEM Classrooms | feat. Jason Erdreich

STEM Everyday Podcast

Jason Erdreich is an educational leader, patented inventor, author, and all around tinkerer and maker of things. With professional teaching experience in K-12, University, and adult learning environments, Mr.E has guided thousands of students of all ages in learning how to solve problems while using technology as a tool to facilitate creation, innovation, and success.

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Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI

Stephen Wolfram

The Drumbeat of Releases Continues… Notebook Assistant Chat inside Any Notebook Bring Us Your Gigabytes! Introducing Tabular Manipulating Data in Tabular Getting Data into Tabular Cleaning Data for Tabular The Structure of Tabular Tabular Everywhere Algebra with Symbolic Arrays Language Tune-Ups Brightening Our Colors; Spiffing Up for 2025 LLM Streamlining & Streaming Streamlining Parallel Computation: Launch All the Machines!

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Winter STEM Centers and Activities for Kids

Carly and Adam

Winter is the perfect time to ignite creativity and problem-solving skills in your classroom with engaging STEM centers! These winter-themed activities are designed to captivate students and help them develop essential STEM skills while having fun. Whether you're looking for activities to fill your classroom with excitement during the colder months or ideas to align with your curriculum, these Winter STEM Centers have you covered.

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The Organelles of a Cell

MooMoo Math & Science

The Cell Organelles are similar to our own organs because they work together to keep the cell alive. In the video, I review the major organelles, provide pictures, and the structure and function of the following organelles. Cell Membrane : The outer boundary of the cell that controls what enters and exits. It is made up of a phospholipid bilayer with embedded proteins.

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STEM Everyday #286 | Modeling Instruction & Engagement | feat. Eric Robinson

STEM Everyday Podcast

Eric Robinson is a physics teacher at Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, CA. His dive into Modeling Instruction explains concisely how instruction (especially science) can be improved. From modelinginstruction.org , “Modeling Instruction is a guided-inquiry approach to teaching science that organizes instruction around the handful of conceptual models that form the content core of the scientific disciplines.

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REU-PATHWAYS 2025 – Applications are Open

Northeastern University

Are you a community college student in the Greater Boston area? Are you interested in doing hands-on research at Northeastern University this summer? If so – please read on! The NSF REU-PATHWAYS summer program at Northeastern University is a 10-week research experience for community college students to conduct in-person research at various labs across our Boston campus.

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Career-Connected Learning Can Answer One Really Big Question

Start-Engineering

Eric Iversen College degrees not all that? Skepticism about the value of four-year college degrees has been rising for years now. Costs have only continued to escalate , and public attention to this fact has created a foundation of stress and doubt among families of high school students about committing to bachelors-degree studies. At the same time, questions about the practical value of a college education make students wonder if skills-focused, job-centered learning is a better bet.

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5 Proven Strategies to Engage 4th Graders in NGSS and STEAM-Based Science Lessons

Love Learning STEM

Lets be realkeeping kids engaged in STEM can sometimes feel like trying to catch a greased-up pig at a county fair. When our STEM team first started in 2017, the kids didn’t know what an engineer was. Carrying out a STEM lesson in our community was very difficult. Many of the students were considered English Language Learners. It took us many years and testing, trying, reflecting, and re-teaching to get STEM to be the kids favorite part of their week.

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Technology Innovation Dumpster (TR_ÇİT, EN_DIT)

Scientix

CC-BY, provided by author We live in a digital age where the development of information technologies and the easy accessibility of the virtual world can negatively affect our thinking capacity with ready-made information entering our pockets. Our students also have the illusion of being satisfied with the existing thinking rather than thinking in this environment.

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WA Teachers: FREE K-5 Online Workshop on Talk & Writing in Science

Teach Science for All

Last spring, I ran an elementary science workshop on supporting elementary science instruction using talk and writing. We got lots of good feedback on the free sessions and we are running the workshop again this winter. Please share this information in your elementary science networks for folks in Washington state.

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MIT Blueprint

Northeastern University

Are you a high school student interested in computer science? Consider taking part in MITs Blueprint, a weekend-long learnathon and hackathon for high school students happening on March 1-2, 2025. Blueprint places a particular focus on reaching out to students from underrepresented high schools and communities to make computer science education available to all.

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MooMoo Math & Science - Untitled Article

MooMoo Math & Science

In this video, I cover the difference between a Prime and a Composite number. A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. In other words, it can only be divided by 1 and itself without leaving a remainder. Examples of prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13. A composite number is a natural number greater than 1 that has more than two positive divisors.

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Girl Scouts of NE Ohio DreamLab

STEM Education Works

Sheffield Village, OH January 24, 2025 The Girl Scouts of North East Ohio launched the Jane Norton Girl Scout DreamLab in Sheffield Village, Ohio the first DreamLab located in Ohio and the tenth in the country. This groundbreaking facility, designed to ignite young minds and build life skills through STEM activities, features advanced learning technologies, including 3Doodler 3D printing pens and Dobot Magician robotic arms, as well as a rotating climbing wall and a knot-tying station.

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Jan 25, Digital SAT Math Problems and Solutions (Part - 103)

Online Math for All

Digital SAT Math Problems and Solutions (Part - 103)

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