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5 Websites for 4th Grade Word Study

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to reinforce and teach word study: Grammar games –a collection of easy-to-use games that cover grammar, vocabulary, parts of speech, and more. Vocabulary-Spelling City –the ever-favorite word study program that lets you enter your class word lists and the site will turn them into engaging games.

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It Takes a Village: How Parents Can Help

Accelerate Learning

At this point, most teachers, parents, and school administrators have heard about pandemic-related learning loss. Learning loss, however, is nothing new. We face it every year when students break for summer vacation, and every summer, parents play a vital role in keeping their children academically engaged. Pandemic-related learning loss is no different.

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Learning from Our 2020 Challenge Grantees

STEMx

Last October, we announced. $30,000 in funding for new programs to expand high-quality STEM education. Through the 2020 STEMx Challenge Grants, leading organizations in three states invested in growing new, promising practices. Today, they share what they learned. Brief summaries of all three grantees and their reports are included below. 2020 STEMx Challenge Grant Reports.

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5 Reasons your Kids should Participate in EPIC

Starfish Education

Everyone has their favorite projects and this one of mine! The Electric Propulsion Innovation Challenge (EPIC), is an engineering design challenge that teaches kids to design, build and fly a. The post 5 Reasons your Kids should Participate in EPIC appeared first on Starfish Education.

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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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What Do You Think is the Hardest Tech Problem?

Ask a Tech Teacher

In the grad school classes I teach and my coaching sessions, the biggest problem facing teachers is not the 3R’s or equity or differentiation. It’s technology. In an education environment that is taught remotely as much as in person, this has become a big deal. I’d like your feedback on issues you face. It’s an easy poll, shouldn’t take more than a few minutes.

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SciencELA: Integrating Reading, Writing, and Science

The Science Penguin

Combining multiple subjects is one of the best ways to get kids to learn more by doing less! When it comes to science, reading and writing can easily be incorporated so students can learn ELA skills while also learning fascinating facts about our world. In just 15 minutes a day during a three week ScienceELA unit, your students will develop a rich understanding of science while also increasing their ability to comprehend new texts.

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Go Elon, SpaceX and NASA – SpaceX is Taking Us to the Moon

CTE Learning

Thank you, thank you, thank you, NASA, for choosing SpaceX. Getting back to the Moon is no easy task for SpaceX. There is quite a bit left to engineer to get us back to the Moon. However, they are the team to bet on. I have no doubt there will be some stumbles, but with Musk and Shotwell and everyone from the janitors to the lead engineers, SpaceX will make it happen, and I have no doubt they will do it with a bit of style.

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5 (free) Security Posters for Tech Ed

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, we’ll share five themed posters that you can share on your website (with attribution), post on your walls, or simply be inspired. This month: Security. –for the entire collection of 65 posters, click here. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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7 Activities To Add To Your Forensic Toxicology Unit

The Trendy Science Teacher

One of my favorite topics to teach in Forensics is toxicology. This topic always fosters deep conversations with my students and they are always engaged in the activities that comprise this unit. Today on the blog, I am sharing 7 activities to add to your Forensic Toxicology unit. If you use any of these activities, be sure to leave a comment at the bottom of the post letting me know which you are planning to use!

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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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Teaching pupils to 'think like Da Vinci' will help them to take on climate change

K-12 Education News

Reforms to the school curriculum which mix the arts and sciences, so that these subjects 'teach together' around common themes like climate change and food security, will better prepare young people for the real-world challenges that will define their adult lives, researchers argue in a new paper.

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Why Freelance?

CTE Learning

With the rise of remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many are realizing that freelancing for clients remotely is a good way to work from home, increase income and work on meaningful projects. A freelancer is someone who works for a variety of clients and is not a full-time employee with a company. More and more companies are choosing to hire freelancers over full-time employees as it saves money on costs such as office space and more.

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Tech Tip #86: Image Your Computer Often

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: Image Your Computer Often. Category: Maintenance, PCs, Chromebooks, Macs.

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Math Solver App

The Tech Savvy Science Teacher

Math Solver is a website and app that will show you how to solve a problem and create practice problems for you. While I know that many teachers will scoff at a website like this, I think that they can be very helpful. I do think that it is important for students to to know how to solve these problems themselves, this can be helpful when practicing.

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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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Why is Google Chrome So Popular?

CTE Learning

The internet! Completely useless without a single piece of software. Well, maybe not completely useless, but it wouldn’t be the service we enjoy every day. Accessible, easy to use, and easy to find content. Much of this is down to a single type of software, the web browser. It does what it says, allowing you to search and browse the internet. Taking what would be a bunch of ugly HTML files written in confusing code and rendering them into something we can all understand and interact with.