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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

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“Things don’t usually explode in Biology,” chimes another goggle-wearing student with long blond hair to my left. Back in 2012, we didn’t have an autoclave, so we were crushing bouillon cubes to make microbacteria media and being creative with microwaves, and it worked. That usually happens in Chemistry.”.

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Math Expert Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell Endorses Hand2Mind’S Hands-On Standards

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“The use of manipulatives and related representations to both develop and extend conceptual understandings through scaffolded lessons will increase learning opportunities and deepen student understanding, which is the ultimate end goal for us as educators.”. Hands-On Standards. EST (3:45 p.m. For more information, please visit www.

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Indiana’s Vigo County School Corporation Adds New, High-Tech Tools Supporting Teaching and Learning to Students’ Digital Book Bags

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Used in classrooms across the United States, the Science Techbooks for elementary students drives engagement with exclusive, interactive digital content and companion printed resources. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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 Minnesota’s Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Public Schools’ New Partnership Powers the Creation of Dynamic Digital Learning Environments Supporting Science Education 

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Pivot, which  joined the Discovery Education family of services  in 2022, makes teaching science with active learning and scientific phenomena engaging and easy. Effective professional development maximizes the power of these resources, increases student engagement in learning, and supports the continued academic development of all students.

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Illinois’ Shiloh CUSD #1 Adds New, Cutting-Edge Edtech Tool to Middle School and High School Curriculum to More Deeply Engage Students in Science   

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Pivot Interactives , which joined the Discovery Education family of services in 2022, makes teaching science with active learning and scientific phenomena engaging and easy. Discovery Education is excited to deepen its collaboration with Shiloh CUSD #1,” said Kathryn Vickers, Discovery Education’s Senior Partnership Coordinator.

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STEAM Learning in Action

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The need for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is critical, especially because there will be more than 3 million job openings in STEM-related fields by 2018. But administrators and policy makers now recognize the benefits of integrating arts education into STEM subjects. About STEAM.

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Are gifted students now an underserved population?

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He is the program director and co-founder of Pioneer Academics , which identifies and empowers high-achieving students with university professors so they can take part in challenging and creative research opportunities across a wide range of disciplines while still in high school.

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