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Recent Blog Posts
STEM Makeover: How to Throw a STEAM Holiday Party with Simple Circuits and Old Christmas Lights
Circuits: Making Connections with Hands-on Learning, Basic Materials, and Tools Got some old festive tree lights laying around the house? Don’t throw them out. You can turn them into a curiosity center where students can explore the basics of electric current. They can be used for a variety of hands-on learning projects, like creating different types of circuits, light-up
STEM Makeover! Gingerbread Houses: How to Turn Your Activity Into Authentic STEM
Building gingerbread houses is a popular classroom activity this time of year. Although the activity can be craft-based (ergo, everyone does the same craft, and it’s just about your students creating something that they can bring home) here’s our STEAM makeover version that hits math and NGSS! Any project that involves building can be adapted into STEM/STEAM with just
Make the Most of Your Donors Choose Project Request
Donors Choose is a fantastic way to get STEM materials that are under $1,000 for your classroom, and right now through December is the perfect time for submitting your projects. As the year comes to a close, there are individuals and companies around the country that are looking for charities to support for tax purposes. Many of these donors are
STEM Makeover: Tackling Mystery Science’s Turkey Lesson and Turn it Into Authentic STEM
This week, we’re tackling Mystery Science’s “What’s that red thing on a turkey?” lesson and aligning it to the NGSS! Check out the video below, and if you want the turkey sheets, get them from our resource library by going here!
How to Fund Elementary STEM with Donors Choose
In this day and age, we know that many schools are underfunded for the STEM that you want to teach, this can be especially true
Classroom Management Tips for Elementary STEM Lessons and Labs
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Starting The School Year: Full STEAM Ahead!
Hey! We are still working on the next vlog in our series about the Next Generation Science Standards, which will cover crosscutting concepts, but we
How to Add Rigor to Your Elementary STEM Lessons
Hey! We are still working on our vlog series about the NGSS and crosscutting concepts, but we wanted to share a resource with you that
How to Teach the NGSS in Three Dimensions: Understanding the How, What, and Why
This week, we have another vlog for you! If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards, have no fear, Yen
4 Ways that the Next Generation Science Standards are Different and Why It Matters
We’re changing things up with a video blog (Vlog) this week! But no worries, the transcript is below! Enjoy! Here is the transcript: Hi there!
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