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How to Teach the Human Body and 16 Sites to Help

Ask a Tech Teacher

use an avatar that has basically human parts (like a robot). There are also lots of teacher resources to help in using this unit such as lesson plans, training, and academic standards met. An easier version — and well-suited to elementary age students — is Find My Body Parts. BrainPOP Jr.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

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These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. It is essential you understand how your systems work, how your leaders and teachers feel and act, and what your students need. Individuals have belief systems.

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

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For the educators in our research, making was no one particular type of activity—whether programming robots or folding paper into shapes or inventing a solution to a common problem. For example, some insisted on the importance of the process, while others believed that making ought to include some fabricated output.

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