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8 STEM Community Service Projects

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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning is a core part of a student’s education. Educators are tasked with finding engaging ways to get students interested in STEM learning starting as early as kindergarten and into high school. Below are ways to get students of all ages engaged in STEM learning.

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How Coding Teaches Virtuous Skills Like Patience

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When it comes to teaching students to code, and the skills and ideas they will learn, it can help to think of a painter’s palette. The metaphor of the palette of virtues reminds us that coding is not only a science but also an art produced by creativity and imagination, situated within the diversity of the human experience.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” On their drive back home from the retreat, these realizations helped the couple tighten screws on a project they were already working on. “We The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class.

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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

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Makerspaces, Maker Education, STEM, and STEAM are gaining lots of traction in Kindergarten though college level education. Makerspaces like vocational shops and science labs are great additions to schools. The idea that students must be seated at desks working in rows is quickly becoming archaic.