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How to Equip Your Makerspace for Under $200
More and more, teachers are looking to empower their students to be creators, makers, and engineers. In the land of open-ended problem-solving, few things are more enticing than creating a makerspace. But what exactly should go in a makerspace? What would a makerspace look like if you spent less than $200 setting it up? The first question is
Dealing With The Epic Fail
In our Saturday webinar with Kerry Tracy from Feel Good Teaching, she touched upon the topic of failures. While teachers may have the impulse to save kids from feeling failure and disappointment, failure —especially epic failure, where everything falls apart— is a valuable teachable moment for our students. When students fail and are given strategies and opportunities to recover
Engineering Lesson Structure
Last week I wrote about introducing engineering practices to your classroom. This week, let’s take it a step further and go through the structure of a STEM Challenge. What are the components and how much time should you plan for each? Here’s a quick video describing each step. The STEM Challenge Cycle The STEM Challenge Cycle & the Engineering
Introducing Engineering Practices to Your Classroom
Although STEM Challenges aren’t magic, they’re the closest thing to it that I’ve ever experienced in my teaching career! There are so many benefits – developing critical thinking, problem-solving, growth mindset and more. But like so many things in teaching, the magic is in how you deliver the activity to your students. One approach will get all the academic
Designing Next Generation Learning Spaces That Motivate Your Students
“How many of you want to become a civil engineer?” Dr. Halil Ceylan asked of a small crowd of 1st-5th graders. Immediately three hands shot
3 Intuitive Strategies for Building Community in Your Classroom
A few years ago, I interviewed a group of undergraduate women in my local university’s Engineering Technology (ET) program to understand why it had an
How Resourcing Leads to Personalized Learning For Your Students
“Mom, why is the sky blue?” my young son asked. Throughout their lives, I’ve encouraged my sons to ask questions about the world and to
The Simple Guide to an Incredibly Useful Theory Called Interactive Spatial Learning
I’m going to share a bit of background with you before I outline Interactive Spatial Learning (ISL) and how it can help structure your classroom
How to Incorporate STEM Thinking into Your Craft and Art Lessons
Classroom learning is subject-specific, even though organic learning in the real world is cross-curricular, experiential, and contextual. A thematic approach toward teaching subjects in
Craft Or STEM – A Handy Flow Chart to Help You Figure Out What Your Activity Is
Not all art is STEM and not all STEM is art. We’ve made a handy tool to help you determine some of the differences! Here’s
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