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Edtech Is Looking to Build Tools to Foster Student Engagement. Can That Scale?

ED Surge

Sharing Frustrations and Successes One of the most powerful ways to build communities between students is through collective problem-solving. Focused on helping software developers build out their skill sets, these businesses facilitate collective learning through group problem-solving and community feedback.

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How to Increase Student Engagement During Project-Based Learning

STEM Sport

This learning style is commonly used when teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) because its real-world connections help students gain a deeper understanding of complex concepts. Regardless of grade level, it can be difficult to keep students engaged throughout project-based lessons.

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Engineering Education for Children on the Autism Spectrum: Content, Pedagogy, and Assessment

National Science Foundation

Engineering learning is a lifelong process that starts from a very young age as children discover the world through tinkering, touching, and being curious. Some refer to children as natural engineers (Dorie et al., Young children naturally and informally engage in engineering-related behaviors and activities (Petroski, 2003).

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Fairy Tale STEM Challenges and Activities

Carly and Adam

Fairy tales are more than just enchanting stories that whisk children away to a magical realm; they are a treasure trove for igniting imagination and critical thinking through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) challenges. Engineer Houses for the Three Little Pigs 4.

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Summer Games STEM Challenges for 3-5 (Third Grade, Fourth Grade, and Fifth Grade)

Carly and Adam

Don’t just teach about the Summer Olympics with your upper elementary students! Engage them in a hands-on learning experience with STEM! The Olympics offer a dynamic setting for interactive learning, particularly for students from third to fifth grade. 5 Summer Olympics STEM Challenges for Upper Elementary 1.

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Empowering Tomorrow's STEM Leaders: The Role of Coding in Grades K-5

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Coding cultivates vital skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and computational thinking, applicable throughout the curriculum. It fortifies math proficiency, enriches scientific comprehension, and instills engineering mindsets. It also acquaints students with technology and digital literacy.

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Constructing a Successful STEM Lesson

STEM Education Works

From coding to engineering to biology, the STEM subjects have a broad range of content to offer to you and your students, but sometimes the way you implement a STEM lesson is just as important as the subject matter you decide to focus on. KEY POINTS Encourage questions. Bring technology into the STEM classroom.