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Work in STEM? Become a STEM Ambassador!

All About STEM

Being a STEM Ambassador is about engaging and enthusing young people with science, technology, engineering and mathematics. You will help encourage students to consider further study of STEM subjects and progression into related careers, inspiring the next generation of STEM professionals. It offers the chance to give something back to education and the wider community, whilst giving you the.

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3 EASY Ways to use Science Sorts

The Science Penguin

Sorting relays are an easy addition to any science class. I started using them when I had a group that needed a more active way to review. Science sorting relays can be a fun and engaging way to get students involved. Science sorting relays are typically done in teams, encouraging student collaboration and teamwork. Sorting relays are a great way to reinforce previously taught concepts.

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Can data science help us achieve a stronger start and brighter future for children?

Futurum

Can data science help us achieve a stronger start and brighter future for children? Published: Dr Rachel Wilcock , Data Science Lead at Nesta , explains how data science can be a powerful tool for social good. Data scientists use scientific methods and computer algorithms to extract knowledge and information from large datasets. This is useful in a huge range of applications, from monitoring global finances to improving medical imaging techniques.

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Math in the Real World

Accelerate Learning

As teachers, you may feel like a broken record telling your students that they’ll use this math, whatever you’re currently teaching, in everyday life. Students will nod, shrug, and maybe even roll their eyes. To them, what’s the point in learning it when their calculator will do the work anyway?

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Students Want a Better Education Experience. First, Teachers Must Master Deeper Learning.

ED Surge

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, authors of the 2019 book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ”, define deeper learning as “the understanding of not just the surface features of a subject or discipline, but the underlying structures or ideas.

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Tech Tip #168: Software vs. Online Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Software vs. Online Tools Category: Pedagogy Here are relevant criteria for evaluating software vs. online tools in your classroom: For more detail on comparing software and online t

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Monster Project Using Makey Makeys and Scratch

User Generated Education

This project takes the Monster Project and enhancing it with interactivity created through using Scratch and Makey Makeys. It was inspired by the Makey Makey Hack a Toy Lesson. Part of the lesson included the 5th graders interviewing 1st graders. This Edutopia article discussed the benefits of interviewing – Learning to Interview Builds a Range of Communication Skills [link] Standards Addressed Common Core State Standards – ELA Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (

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How Mega-Universities Manage to Teach Hundreds of Thousands of Students

ED Surge

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.” To make online financially viable, he predicted, “remote classes will need to enroll many more.

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11 Online Resources About Puzzles

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are popular puzzles resources teachers are using to teach mouse skills, critical thinking, and more. There are a few for the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day: Digipuzzles –great puzzles for geography, nature, and holidays I’m a Puzzle –create your own puzzles Jigsaw Explorer –make your own Jigsaw Planet –create your own picture jigsaw Jigsaw puzzles Jigzone–puzzles Jigsaw Puzzles –JS Kindergarten puzzles Puzzle—St.

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Employers: Attract Young Diverse Talent Into Your Workforce

All About STEM

You can place talented young people at the heart of your organisation by hosting a Nuffield Research Placement. Placements are offered to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to increase opportunities to access university courses and STEM-related careers. You can work with top students to make significant contributions to your research and development projects.

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This Month at DE: April

STEM Discovery Education

This April, make a difference on planet Earth – and in your lessons! Whether you’re reflecting on your impact on our planet for Earth Day or reading poetry to celebrate National Poetry Month, Discovery Education has timely content for a month full of exciting classroom activities. DNA Day Grades 6-12 Did you know DNA Day is April 25? Inspire students in grades 6-12 to unlock the power of genomics and impact the future with DNA Decoded , a collection of ready-to-go, standards-aligned lessons from

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Teaching Partner, Grading Assistant or Substitute Teacher?

ED Surge

AI tools have rapidly entered Language Arts classrooms. The proliferation of AI tools has outpaced efforts to understand how AI’s presence might change teaching practices or the role of the teacher. ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback.

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Subscriber Special: Huge Savings on Posters

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. March 1-3, 2023 65 Tech Ed Posters $2.99 This set of sixty-five posters is a varied collection you can use to share critical issues dealing with technology and education. Print them out and hang them on your classroom walls or share them out digitally on a Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram feed.

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ESERO: Space Education Quality Mark – Schools & Colleges

All About STEM

ESERO-UK’s Space Education Quality Mark (SEQM) is designed to support schools and colleges using the subject of space to inspire and engage their students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. Why get involved? -gain recognition for your achievements -forge links with space professionals and organisations -raise the profile of quality STEM teaching within your school.

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Highlighting a Success Story at a Florida Public Charter School Part I

CTE Learning

Today we are highlighting one of our teachers, Karimah Grayson of SunEd High School in Margate, FL. SunEd High is a public charter school serving students for whom the traditional high school model may not be the best fit. SunEd students earn their full high school diplomas, not GEDs. SunEd High School adopted the courses after the principal Tammy Lara and her team vetted the courses and determined the curricula to deploy.

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Do Active-Shooter Drills in Schools Do More Harm Than Good?

ED Surge

Donna Provencher, a freelance journalist near San Antonio, was folding laundry last week when her 8-year-old son made a comment that stopped her cold. “He said, ‘Mom, do you remember when the shooter came to my school?’” she recalls. There hadn’t been a shooting. But the second grader had gone through an active-shooter drill at his school, where he was instructed to curl up in a ball on the classroom floor.

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Teach Vocabulary with the Frayer Model

Ask a Tech Teacher

In a perfect world, vocabulary is learned in context: The phrases and sentences around the unknown word define the meaning. If that isn’t sufficient, students use affixes — prefixes, suffixes, and roots — to decode meaning. But because the world isn’t always that pristine, Dorothy Frayer and her colleagues at the University of West Virginia came up with a vocabulary teaching tool that has come to be known as “the Frayer Model” Now used by thousands of educat

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LCR Careers Hub: NEW Website & National Careers Week Guide!

All About STEM

We’re excited to announce that the NEW Liverpool City Region Careers Hub website is LIVE! Take a look and discover a fantastic range of careers resources, events and an engaging, inspirational employer offer. As part of the launch celebrations, the LCR Careers Hub has created a National Careers Week Guide to support schools and colleges in their planning.

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Fusion Ignition – A Fuel of the Future?

Smore Science

Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which atoms are combined to form larger atomic nuclei or subatomic particles. These atoms overcome the electrical resistance which keeps them apart. They get close enough to activate a force known as the strong nuclear force. This strong nuclear force allows the atoms to be held or fused together. When two atomic nuclei fuse, they form a larger atomic nucleus.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. “The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)Member” “We Be Lovin’ Black Children: Learning to be Literate About the African Diaspora” “Teaching Black History to White People” “Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools” “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South” “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil” Aniefuna means “my land is not lost.

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3 Projects to Teach 1st Grade Architecture

Ask a Tech Teacher

Many Fridays, I report on a wonderful website or project my classes and parents love. This one is teaching architecture to youngers: Lesson Plan: Three projects over six weeks and your students will learn about blueprints, room layout, dimensions, and more. Plus, they’ll understand how to think about a three-dimensional object and then spatially lay it out on paper.

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British Science Week: BBC Teach Live Lesson – Forces

All About STEM

BBC Teach is taking over the Science Museum in London with an out-of-this-world forces Live Lesson for British Science Week! The Live Lesson astronaut is stuck in space and the challenge is on for pupils to use their knowledge of gravity, friction and air resistance, to design a landing module. Who will successfully bring him back to Earth? This 30-minute curriculum-linked session includes Dr.

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Let the March MATHness begin!

Talk STEM

March is here, and with it comes the newest initiative from talkSTEM and MathFinder – the March Mathness Challenge ! We’ve compiled our walkSTEM tours of Dallas (and added a few new ones!) into a competition to explore and engage with Math in our great city. By engaging with the Math that’s embedded in our built, living, artistic, and architectural environments, you gain insights and perspectives about our parks, artworks, animals, plants, and neighborhoods.

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Will ChatGPT Make Students Turn Away From Homework-Help Services?

ED Surge

The emergence of ChatGPT provoked widespread concern that the AI chatbot is the ultimate tool for students cheating on homework, since it can answer just about any question in paragraph form. As companies race to come out with tools they claim can detect when prose was written by a bot, some are wondering whether a previous generation of homework-help tools might soon be rendered obsolete.

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If Climate Change Education Matters, Why Don’t All Teachers Teach It?

ED Week

Climate change education in schools is sporadic and limited, despite student interest and the urgency of the issue as temperatures rise and weather patterns become more severe.

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Getting Ready for National Careers Week: ASK Webinar

All About STEM

National Careers Week is coming up! If you’re looking to empower, engage and inspire your learners during #NCW2023, join the Founder and Director of Amazing Apprenticeships, Anna Morrison, for a round-up of National Careers Week themes, films, activities and resources. This webinar is part of the ASK (Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge for Schools and Colleges) project and features links to.

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Racial and Gender Biases in AI

STEMe

Katy, TX Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize many industries and improve people's lives in countless ways. However, AI is not immune to the biases that can exist in the data it is trained on and the people who develop it. The biases that can be found in AI systems can perpetuate and even amplify societal inequalities. Two of the most significant biases in AI systems are racial and gender biases.

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How Research-Based Tools Provide Impactful Learning Outcomes

ED Surge

What defines an exemplary edtech company that serves K-12 needs? How does a district measure return on investment when adopting new curricula? While the edtech market continues to grow with innovative ways to engage students, not many companies provide products rooted in three decades of cognitive research that continue to provide solid returns on investment.

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5 Tips for Teaching STEM With Robots

Vivify Stem

5 Tips for Teaching STEM With Robots Guest Post by Sphero Team March 3, 2023 Robots are not quite living up to the promises of science fiction movies, but they are still doing some pretty amazing things in our everyday lives, especially in the classroom. With programmable robots like Sphero, you can introduce students to the world of robotics in a fun and engaging way while they learn valuable STEM subjects and important skills.

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Get into Construction: Open Doors

All About STEM

Open Doors Week is brought to you by Build UK in partnership with The Careers & Enterprise Company, CITB & The Department for Work & Pensions. Open Doors Week is a fantastic opportunity for young people and those looking for a change of career to find out what the industry has to offer by going behind the site and seeing the diverse range of opportunities available.

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Electric Eels

STEMe

Houston, TX Thank you, my loving readers. This is my 10th blog. As a token of my thank you, I have included some fun activity for all my fellow readers. Read to the end and have some serious electric fun. You know about Eels, right? How many types of eels do you know? Do you know there are about 19 different types of eels identified so far? From the Fresh Water Eels to Deep Sea Large Necked eels or One Jaw Gulpers, there are about 19 wide families, 111 genera, and over 800 species of Eels.

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