Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

However, we can all take the worksheets we do have and transform them from mere busywork as we reimagine them into dynamic, engaging learning experiences. Teachers should gradually incorporate these strategies into their teaching to enhance student engagement and learning. Let's get started. Stream by clicking here.

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Patrick's Day STEM Centers transform the classroom into a dynamic learning environment, where students engage with science, technology, engineering, and math through themed activities. To complete the game students will use color sticks, markers, or crayons, dice, a printable game board , and pencils.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This perspective led to the design of a classroom centered around student engagement rather than solely focusing on a teacher stationed at the front of the room. How are your teachers and students behaving? Imagine walking into your ideal classroom. What does it look like? Start from this vision and go from there.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 29, 2024

It can also increase student engagement as well as students’ enthusiasm for learning. One study noted that teachers using this model observed their students becoming more involved with their environment after participating in hands-on activities.

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STEM Next

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

My students and I had been sent home for the rest of the school year. The potatoes we were growing in Martian soil had withered, and so had the student engagement. And I worried just how much my students were learning. I’m hopeful that the pandemic hasn’t affected science like it did math and ELA, but I’m also a realist.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 28, 2023

These virtual learning experiences have become my guiding stars, providing me with invaluable knowledge and strategies to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math. Firstly, one major benefit is the flexibility they provide. It promotes collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving skills.

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STEM Next

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Afterschool and summer STEM opportunities increase students’ comfort level with science, technology, engineering, and math and, therefore, their likelihood of success in related courses.” Afterchool programs give students learning opportunities they can’t always find at school. Building a New Future. Role Models.

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STEM Sport

JANUARY 23, 2024

Student Engagement: Evaluate how the curriculum engages students and stimulates their interest in STEM. For example, in a unit on renewable energy, students could be given the freedom to choose a specific area of focus, such as solar power or wind energy.

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 5, 2023

Some educators feel strongly about the acronym, while others think more flexibly. It doesn’t matter what you call it , as long as you are prioritizing the needs and interests of your students. STEM Science, technology, engineering, and math takes an integrated approach, creating connections across subject areas.

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The STEM Laboratory

JULY 19, 2022

By their very nature, STEM projects are very engaging for children, who have a natural curiosity about the world around them, which is one of the reasons STEM curriculum is so important. We’re also talking about practicing creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and honing inquiry skills.

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Teachers are Terrific

JULY 13, 2023

Creating mazes is a perfect way to keep students engaged. It’s easy-prep and students love designing them! winwin A few years ago I had a great idea about having students complete a STEM Challenge to create mazes from boxes and paper. When the task is completed they receive a math problem. They LOVED it!

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PCS Edventures

APRIL 12, 2023

Each kit includes three, one-hour lessons in Science, Math, Social Studies and Language Arts for over 12 hours of hands-on engagement. What are some no-tech activities that boost student achievement across subjects? Grade 6: Volume (Math): Build different sized objects from bricks and find the volume, area and perimeter of each.

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CoderZ

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Multi-Disciplinary Principles Students not only learn coding but also witness the tangible impact of their code in a simulated, real-world setting. They also are asked to use, apply and practice skills from other disciplines, such as reading and writing, math and geometry, and physics and engineering.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Our guest, Danielle Johnson, Executive Director of the Texas Scholastic Esports Federation, shares how esports is not just about gaming but about boosting student engagement, improving academic performance, and building a more inclusive school community. Esports are rapidly growing in schools across the country. Thanks Danielle.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2018

You determine this based on what students need to start their day as lifelong learners. In fact, it’s good to be flexible with the schedule and responsive to student needs. a student-led self-reflection. a sharing time where students can voice their thoughts, opinions, and feelings. That’s OK.

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PCS Edventures

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Executive functioning skills include a learner’s time management skills, flexible thinking, impulse control and more. Student-led exploration requires builders to apply learned concepts while trying something new. Her love for literacy, STEAM and student collaboration guides her instruction and professional development sessions.

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 8, 2023

It is often associated with technology, math, and science, but it also transfers to many areas of academics. For children to successfully send Sphero indi along their course, they must display goal setting, self-monitoring, flexible thinking and more! STEAM and executive functioning truly go hand-in-hand. References: Arfé, B.,

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STEM Sport

MAY 23, 2023

Aside from heightened motivation, STEM competitions benefit educators and school administrators by providing a flexible platform for customizing their STEM lesson plans. Quest Track Modeling the Future Challenges: The Model the Future Challenges integrates math modeling, data analysis, and risk-management skills into a STEM competition.

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 18, 2020

Teachers are talking about how Individual STEM Kits keep students engaged and excited about learning. Let’s look at a few of the ways Individual STEM Kits keep learners engaged while at home, in small groups or full classroom settings. Individual STEM Kit Pathways.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For Scholastic, Robb has completed several best sellers including the first and second editions of Teaching Reading in Middle School , Differentiating Reading Instruction , Teaching Reading in Social Studies, Science, and Math , and her newest, Unlocking Complex Texts. I want groups to be flexible and fluid. Now back to the show.

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 23, 2022

For example, BrickLAB Magic Beans provides 12 days of lessons focusing on fairy tales, with exciting activities addressing NGSS and math standards that seamlessly intertwine. You can adapt our flexible programs to fit your specific needs. Each of the 12 lessons showcases individual interests: literacy, science, math, engineering, art.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 18, 2023

As a robotics education specialist, I’m often asked about the latest and greatest tools for teaching STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) concepts to young students. 3) Younger students can practice counting by programming cue robot to move a specific number of steps. Source: amazon.com Hey there!

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Futurum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The outdoor learning results in greater student engagement and impacts human and environmental wellness. For example, one activity asks students to look at an old tree and imagine its history. Students consider questions such as ‘how was it born?’ Another challenge was getting the support and buy-in from local teachers.

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STEMx

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

While each school is granted the flexibility to develop its lab as a best fit for its mission and vision, certain components were standardized. At one school, a teacher went out of her way to thank the VW eLab Specialist, as she noted, “I walked by (student’s name) in the hall today.

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