Posts about STEM/STEAM
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Holiday STEM Activities
As we celebrate holidays, use the holiday theme to create STEM activities. For this week look for an experiment around your Elf on the Shelf. If you have upper elementary
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Preparing Learners For STEM Careers
Ask your students what they want to be when they grow up. What might they say? It will likely depend if you teach kindergarten, 7th grade, or 12th grade. Forty
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Make Every Day PI Day
Pi Day, celebrated annually on March 14, honors the mathematical constant Pi and promotes mathematics. Every day can be a celebration of math's significance through improved teaching methods,
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Tools for Promoting Social and Emotional Learning Through PBL and STEM
It has been an interesting start to the school year. We are all working in different learning environments, some of which may be changing each week. Unlike when schools closed
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STEM is Elementary
Kids spring into the world STEM-ready. From birth, they are problem-solvers trying to make sense of the world around them. They’re fascinated with building things—and with taking things
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By Maggie O'Brien Each month, we list articles on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and project-based learning (PBL) that we find exceptionally inspiring and educational. Topics
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How to Develop Future-Ready Students
We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist … using technologies that haven’t been invented … in order to solve problems we don’t even know are
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Congress Elementary Uses PBL in STEM Education to Inspire Students Part 1
The Problem As the first-grade teacher for inquisitive six-year-olds, Emily Morse is always looking for new projects to inspire her students. With a recent culture shift in her district to
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What is a Crosscutting Concept?
Crosscutting concepts are one of the three dimensions of science teaching and learning that are included in the performance expectations of the Next Generation Science Standards. In this post, I
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Assessments that Improve STEM Success
By Anne Jolly "Assessment should be deliberately designed to improve and educate student performance, not merely to audit as most school tests currently do." - Grant Wiggins You’
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