Get Caught Engineering
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
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.
Defined Learning
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Jed Stefanowicz, a human being I am lucky enough to call my colleague, encouraged me to write a post a few years ago as it had been a while since I had written. Like any new teacher, I was wrapping my head around exactly what it was I was doing. Like any new teacher, I was open to possibilities, collaboration, and learning from those who have been there.
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Educators Technology
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The purpose of this post is to share with you a collection of some great web tools for taking students on virtual field trips around the world. With a working Internet connection and a computer you will be able to take your kids and students on virtual tours exploring far-off places, learning about ancient monuments, visiting world museums and discovering other cultures and ways of living.
Middle Web
OCTOBER 29, 2022
First and foremost, writes EL expert Valentina Gonzalez, new teachers need to view multilingualism as a student asset. Learn her five proven strategies to achieve teaching success with multilinguals, who need to be valued, respected and supported to master academic content. The post New to Teaching and to Teaching MLs? Try This! first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
One of the most popular and in-demand skills is anything related to computers–programming, repair, networking, and cybersecurity to name a few. If you love the challenge of coding computers to do just about anything you can visualize, the hardest part of deciding on a post-High School career may be selecting the right specialty. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has come up with a short list of questions you should ask before getting started: Is your selected specialty right for you?
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Educators Technology
OCTOBER 29, 2022
We love the Halloween season and our kids love it even more. You can see the excitement in their eyes and sense it in the vibrant atmosphere everywhere you go. Halloween infuses everything with a spooktacular energetic vibe creating a lot of fun and joy. As teachers and parents we can not help but take full advantage of this amazing event and turn it into meaningful learning experiences for kids in and outside class, all while keeping the spooky and ghoulish spirit of the season intact.
Accelerate Learning
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
You may know Jotform as one of the most popular tools in the form builder category, recognized for its simplicity and sophistication in what could otherwise be the complicated process of collecting and analyzing data. It works on all platforms, can be shared via a link or embed (as well as other options), and supports multiple languages. Over the past several years, Jotform has released many features designed to simplify and automate teaching’s more mundane tasks, such as Smart PDF Forms ,
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
When a school or district decides to cut a check for an edtech product, the end goal isn’t about owning a shiny new piece of hardware or app. The administrators who sign off are thinking about how students will benefit long-term from more support in the classroom. But where in the conversation are the people implementing those tools: the teachers? And how much say do they—or should they—have in edtech decisions?
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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.
Educators Technology
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
We human beings have come a long way towards understanding the world (or probably the worlds) we are living in. Our knowledge of the inner workings of this world is expanding exponentially and in both directions: horizontally and vertically. From the invention of fire to Mars exploration, our insatiable appetite to discover and learn is getting wilder and wilder and with it our scientific knowledge.
Cool Cat Teacher
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Some things are just better done slowly. In this world of Rush! Rush! Rush! It is time to slow down. It is November 1, and I'm committed to doing things slowly in the areas that matter: Slowly eating dinner with my husband and laughing over the silly little things that happen every day Slowly stir the cookies with the wooden spoon so they come out the way my kids like them when they come home so we can Slowly sit b
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ideas for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, and apps ( check here for updated links ): Websites and Apps. 30-day Halloween fitness challeng e. Build a Jack-o-lantern (in Google Slides).
ED Surge
OCTOBER 31, 2022
It’s the start of the second week of the school year and my son’s virtual first grade orientation is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. It’s 10:05 a.m. and I’m in a state of utter panic. I’ve got ten minutes to help a substitute teacher compile materials for their coverage, ensure that my team has the support needed to execute lessons smoothly and move my car, which is double parked out front because there’s never parking by my school.
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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!
Middle Web
OCTOBER 31, 2022
There’s nothing wrong with “putting on a movie” after a tough week in class, writes Amber Chandler, but why not make the most of it? The former AMLE educator of the year shares her strategy (with lesson plans!) for using popular films to reach important SEL goals. The post Bringing Movie Magic into Our SEL Classrooms first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Cool Cat Teacher
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Young children have many different ability levels with math concepts. Understandably, kindergarten and elementary teachers need to reach every student where they are on their learning journey, but it isn't always easy. Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson, an expert on the topic, gives an overview of how to differentiate math instruction with younger students. . eSpark.
Thimble
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
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.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
What if you gathered a group of high school students, gave them fancy microphones and some training, and challenged them to make an investigative podcast about the issues they cared about the most? That’s the premise of a nonprofit called The Bell, started in New York City by 2017 by two former teachers with a journalism background and a belief that one way to improve education is to elevate the voices of students.
Middle Web
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Digital literacy leader Brett Pierce lays out the elements of digital storytelling and shows how students can take the lead in using digital tools to collaborate, think critically, problem solve, and present publicly, creating digital narratives around core curricular goals. The post Preparing Our Students to Be Digital Storytellers first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Cool Cat Teacher
OCTOBER 31, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. For each class, I have three things I have to do each day: lesson plans in Chalk , Google classroom assignments updated, and then I have to go back and grade the work for the day. Using a sharpie marker and a simple template I made in Canva , where I am with those habits, is a quick glance away.
Futurum
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
In conversation with a (highly passionate) temporal logician. Published: Dr Kristin Y. Rozier is a temporal logician based within the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University in the US. Her work encompasses many different fields, but all are aimed at making people’s lives better and safer. If you have 100 socks in a drawer, 50 of which are red and 50 black, how many will you have to pull out to guarantee you have a pair?
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
In North Salem Central School District, every student is encouraged to engage with computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS). Aligning their efforts with the New York State Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards and the Profile of a North Salem Graduate , the district has developed a Computational Thinking Pathway, which provides CT and CS learning opportunities for all students.
The Science Penguin
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Throughout grade school and college, I never actually learned about fossil fuels. When I saw that was part of the 5th grade curriculum, I knew I had a lot of learning to do. Luckily, fossil fuel formation is actually pretty interesting… and we can make it interesting for kids too! Here are some activities and resources for teaching 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students about coal, oil, and natural gas formation. 1.
Northeastern University
OCTOBER 31, 2022
On Friday, October 28th we had our third field trip of the year where the fourth grade class from the Rafael Hernandez dual English/Spanish language school came to learn about natural disasters and preparedness. Thank you to NEU volunteers for making this day possible: Stephanie, Erika, Jackson, Munin, and Maya. The day focused on learning about natural disasters and natural hazards, looking at how they form and how we can prepare for them and mitigate the consequences.
Defined Learning
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Imagine you’re a middle school student sitting in science class. Which of the following two scenarios would engage you the most? Which would ignite your curiosity and cause you to ask questions? The teacher tells the class, “Today we’re going to begin a project about plastic in the ocean. It’s going to be three weeks long, and you’ll be writing a 1000-word persuasive essay and making a group presentation at the end.
STEM Discovery Education
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
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Box Light
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Actuaries are typically associated with mathematics, but this career is often categorized as a science which applies math and data analysis. They use these analyses to produce strategic methods for professional operations.
Northeastern University
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
STEMout at JP Boston Public Library – Saturdays 10:30-12:00. STEMout, our affiliated NEU student volunteer organization, is hosting a weekly STEM program at Jamaica Plains’ Boston Public Library ( 30 South Street, JP 02130), every Saturday morning from 10:30am-12:00pm. The age range of the program is 8-12 (3rd grade to 6th grade). Students participate in hands-on demonstrations and activities to learn more about science, technology, engineering, and math topics.
Middle Web
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Native Americans’ thousands of years of history are filled with achievements and challenges. In recent years the United States has commemorated their history in November. MiddleWeb’s resource collection can help students understand this rich and complex heritage. The post American Indian Heritage Now and All Year Long first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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