Northeastern University

OCTOBER 25, 2023

50 students from Dever Elementary School in Boston came to Northeastern to participate in STEM activities. The egg worked as a great example of a brain and a skull to emphasize the importance of wearing helmets and for the ongoing research in the brain injury space. Thank you Dever Elementary! Last Friday (10.6)

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not lost upon me that schools are complex organizations with a wide variety of experiences, yet there were many similarities shared among my peers who co-created the healing circles with EdSurge Research and the Abolitionist Teaching Network. Research by Barbara C. Professor of public health and African American Studies David R.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Here–briefly–is a summation of the research: 1 Why Learn Keyboarding. Besides what research tells us, you see the benefits just by watching kids use computers. Some researchers maintain keyboarding is too abstract for immature brains and too demanding of undeveloped fine motor skills. Research varies on this topic.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Or even newer math ?)

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STEM Sport

JULY 6, 2022

But how do you engage elementary students in STEM – a seemingly complex subject? If you are a loyal STEM Sports® blog reader, you may be wondering how sports lesson plans for elementary students differ from lesson plans for kindergarteners. Best Sports to Lesson Plan Around for Elementary Students.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. When I looked for research on the effectiveness of SEL in impoverished neighborhoods serving Black and Latino students, I found limited data.

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Teach Science for All

JANUARY 23, 2024

The research, conducted through a randomized controlled trial in 1st-grade classrooms across three California school districts during the 2021/22 academic […]

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Science and Steamteam

MARCH 14, 2022

Here are the new science picture books for elementary grades. Perfect for introducing individual scientists, doing research, and more. The post 14 of the Best Picture Books for Elementary Science appeared first on Science and STEAM Team. I found this year’s list particularly good. The Beak Book. for ages 3 – 8.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. Researchers sent text reminders to some parents to use the materials they received. Nevertheless, the kinds of solutions the researchers considered had another virtue: affordability.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2024

While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation. While the U.S.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 31, 2022

14 Diverse STEM Picture Books for Elementary Students Our classroom libraries and the stories that we share with our students should be reflective of the diversity that makes up our world. Along with each book summary, there are a few hands-on activities to support elementary learners. *This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Researchers attribute this boost to the process of imagining all the possible move alternatives which trains the mind to play with possibilities … the cornerstone of original thinking. Research continues to support the intellectual benefits of chess. Improves Reading and Math Skills. Teaches Strategic Thinking, Planning, and Foresight.

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User Generated Education

JULY 12, 2020

I am planning to do anti-racist activities with my elementary students (5th and 6th graders) this coming fall. After doing some more research about their selected young person, they write an I Am poem from the perspective of that person. You’re deliberately teaching them that all the racial groups are equals.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“These risks are particularly acute for adolescent girls, who have a short window of opportunity to get back to school before they are forced to take a different path — including marriage or migration for work,” researchers write. One of those researchers is Cassandra R. In the U.S.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

But the ESSER “funding cliff” — the fall deadline for districts to allocate money from the final disbursement of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief grants — isn’t a singular culprit behind the staff cuts that are rolling out around the country. In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

If you’re in elementary school, this tool is a win for you; the kids will love it. WORD Force is a research-based early literacy course that is free for teachers. Parents will too! Sign up for WORD Force EVERFI sponsored this post. All opinions are my own. What Reading Skills Does WORD Force Teach?

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STEM Sport

AUGUST 30, 2022

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are fundamental aspects of elementary education. STEM Sports® has created a list of six tips for how to implement STEM at the elementary level. Use the engineering design process (Ask, Research, Imagine, Plan, Create, Test, Improve). Consider which approach you want to take.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district.

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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With this in mind, we have compiled a list of the top STEM elementary and middle schools. . West Lafayette Elementary/Junior/Senior High School. C onclusion: Above are 26 schools that offer elementary and middle school STEM education. The STEM movement has gained momentum in recent years. Location: Scottsdale, AZ. Type: Charter.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Design thinking is an approach to learning that includes considering real-world problems, research, analysis, conceiving original ideas, lots of experimentation, and sometimes building things by hand. I use the following activities to introduce elementary students to the design thinking process. from the d-school).

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri.

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Science and Steamteam

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Before I researched the topic, I had no idea how many different bloodsuckers there are. Premade October STEM Challenges for Elementary Students. . The post Two STEM Challenges for Elementary Grades That are Perfect for October appeared first on Science and STEAM Team. Create an Instrument to Remove a Bloodsucker.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” That was in 2017. “It It began to become emotionally draining.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

There are a number of research organizations collecting data about foreign language study and multilingualism in the U.S., however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations. Nationwide research is also relatively infrequent — the most recent in-depth study of U.S. The answer? Not enough.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

Typically, we tend to associate SEL programs with elementary-aged students. This tracks with what the research shows. According to a nationally representative RAND report published in 2020, elementary teachers reported higher levels of school support for SEL than secondary teachers did.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

A coalition of 14 education organizations, helmed by the nonprofit Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, released sample guidelines earlier this month that walk teachers and administrators through potential pitfalls to consider before using an AI tool in the classroom or for other tasks. In Michigan, it was a team effort.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

And more than that, vilifying SEL will likely only move education in the wrong direction, educators and researchers say. And then as you get a little bit older, into later elementary grades like fourth or fifth grade, you expand on that learning, right? I lead our research department, so of course we're very data-driven.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

These are great for all ages to not only read but research topics that might have been well-covered years ago but not so much now (like primitive tribes). Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them.

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Carly and Adam

OCTOBER 8, 2021

STEM Challenges and Books for Elementary Students During the Month of December STEM learning is the integration of science, technology, engineering, and math. Research another animal that uses this form of protection and create a camouflage image of this creature. *This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

I’ve used them successfully in my teaching training classes but never with elementary learners. Ideally, the answers to questions are not a stopping point for thought but are instead a beginning to further analysis and research. In line with the theme of this blog, student-centric and user generated educational techniques.

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Teach Science for All

AUGUST 10, 2023

As we continue to consider ways to give elementary science a comeback in many schools- here is a video of a school in Brooklyn where they have implemented Super Science Fridays. We know from research and from many of our own lived experiences that adding intentional science time at the elementary grades leads to many […]

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For instance, a program called Educators Rising has chapters in high schools for students who might be interested in teaching that also provides info and arranges tours of education schools, says Jacqueline King, a consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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ED Surge

JULY 4, 2023

Kareem Edouard has been doing research for years on how to make children’s media more inclusive. He’s applying his research as a creative producer for a new show on PBS called Work It Out Wombats! In your career, you have also been an elementary and high school teacher. Edouard is no stranger to making media.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Since then, researchers have taken closer looks at what role climate anxiety — also called climate doomism or eco-anxiety — plays in the overall mental health pressures that young people are facing. Climate anxiety isn’t a wholly new concept. Google saw a 565 percent increase in searches for the phrase a couple years ago.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

These are great for all ages to not only read but research topics that might have been well-covered years ago but not so much now (like primitive tribes). Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And for a bit of fun, meet CAT GPT, my very own Content AI Taskhelper – a personal assistant I've created with a blend of my own educational beliefs and research-backed best practices. Someone explain that to me!) I have it interview me on the way to school (and sometimes back), and it helps me create content for you.

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