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How to Encourage Girls in Your Classroom to Get Involved in STEM

Waterford

6] Whether you’re an elementary school teacher or work with older grades, you have the power to make a difference. Read on to discover the barriers that women in STEM face and how you can help counteract them through lessons and classroom strategies. How Teachers Can Support Girls in STEM in the Classroom.

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Unleashing Metacognition: The Power of See, Think, Wonder

Catlin Tucker

See, Think, Wonder Thinking Routine “I see, I think, I wonder” is a simple yet versatile thinking routine that can be used in elementary and secondary classrooms. Using See, Think, Wonder at the Elementary Level Science Exploration: Use this routine during nature walks or while exploring the schoolyard.

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Designing Classrooms Fit for Early Learners

Edsurge

This is a major shift as the district’s existing preschool program is typically served from one portable classroom at several elementary school sites. This involved facility visits to understand how they use their current space, case study tours of inspirational facilities, and identifying key stakeholders.

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Education Galaxy–Personalized Learning That’s Fun

Ask a Tech Teacher

Education Galaxy supports math, reading, language arts, and science at the elementary level (K-6). This combination of reward and reinforcement has been proven to be highly effective with elementary school learners. Education Galaxy provides many case studies and testimonials showing stunning performance and results.

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Civics Education Is Essential for Creating Engaged Citizens. I’m Hopeful It's About to Make a Comeback.

Edsurge

Students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S. Students learn best when they study real ballot initiatives during an election year or work with journalism professors to write their own editorials for the local paper. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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5 Tech tools educators can use to teach social responsibility in the classroom

Neo LMS

The aim is to improve education across the US on a granular level, one classroom at a time. Funded and owned by the United Nations World Food Program, this nifty general knowledge quiz site simply donates grains of rice for every right answer, and is perfect for elementary school classrooms.

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Better Edtech Budgeting: How Yuma Elementary District Makes The Most of Its Money

Edsurge

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. To the other 13 school/district case studies, click here. Yuma) The two decided to pool the Title 1 money and buy five laptop computers for every classroom teaching math across the district (approximately 450 laptops) in the spring of 2009.