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A Strategy for Planning Down Time and Accomplishing Your Summer Goals
Before you leave your classroom this summer, use our quick, handy dandy flow chart to get you to the heart of your summer goals with a kick start to the fall. The flow chart is based on a reflection tool called “Plusses and Arrows” that I learned while coaching preservice teachers in grad school. You list what went well with
3 Elementary School Experiments with Shaving Cream for the End of the Year
In most areas of the United States, the warmer weather has both teachers and kids thinking about summer. For me, I started thinking about science that can be done outside! For instance, instead of doing our Gummy Bear Dare catapults for gummy bears, why not have kids design them for water balloons?!!! Then recently a Shaving Cream Challenge appeared on
The Engineering Structure – How It Applies to Elementary STEM
Science is based on investigations that gather and analyze data to understand different aspects of the natural world, while engineering is about applying what we know from science (plus math, technology, and other disciplines) toward solutions that solve a problem. We talked about these differences in a previous blog, which you can check out HERE. Today, however, we want to
Join Our Free Webinar: Energize Your Class With the Gummy Bear Dare
We released our FREE STEM Webinar: Energize Your Class With the Gummy Bear Dare. We are so excited to share this fun and rigorous STEM lesson with you! In this lab, students build a catapult to fling gummy bears over a barrier/wall using common objects you can buy at the store. This free webinar walks you through how to do
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