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To Get Serious About Games, Teachers Experiment With Play in the Classroom

ED Surge

In Baselice’s game, each team of students represents one of the countries that initially started the war, and the objective of the game — played with index cards and a lot of negotiation between the teams — is to understand all the interconnected events that led to conflict breaking out.

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How I Met My Monster STEM Challenge

Carly and Adam

Integrate STEM in your classroom this Halloween with a Monster STEM Challenge ! Material List: Cardstock Scissors Color Sticks, Crayons, or Markers Pencils STEM Journal How I Met My Monster by Amanda Noll After reading How I Met My Monster by Amanda Noll challenge your students to think about their perfect monster.

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Can After-School Programs Help Children Recover From the Pandemic?

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He’s writing a speech about gang violence for a youth public speaking competition called Project Soapbox and recently got elected to the gym program’s student council. He’s writing a speech about gang violence for a youth public speaking competition called Project Soapbox and recently got elected to the gym program’s student council.

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How Purposeful Play Opens the Door to Lifelong Learning

ED Surge

In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. They're laughing, chatting and (sometimes) getting a bit frustrated. They're also coding, measuring and problem-solving. This is purposeful play. Why Teachers ?? They felt burned out.

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How to Celebrate Dot Day All Year Long!

Carly and Adam

My heart and mind are so full of the beauty of art and how it connects us all, one little dot with the next. As I was dreaming up ideas while making plans for my college students to celebrate the big day this semester, I began to think… Why don't we celebrate creativity all year long? All kinds of candy are dots.

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The Little Red Fort Fractured Fable STEM Challenge

Carly and Adam

This STEM Challenge takes the classic tale of "The Little Red Hen" and adds a dash of engineering and problem-solving. In the Little Red Fort STEM Activity , students will enjoy the enchantment of fractured fables combined with the excitement of STEM education, fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.

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Our Interns Kick Off the talkSTEM Summer 2023 STEMlens Challenge for High Schoolers

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We had three of our talkSTEM interns – Mary, Mario, and Raine – test the challenge themselves throughout the spring semester and share their thoughts, along with other insights they had about how to find room for STEM while prepping for college and enjoying high school. We will have a new challenge every month!