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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces. Thomas School near Seattle has concentrated on beefing up the school’s science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education for the past several years and plans to strengthen it even more in the future. Thomas School Dedicates Space to Bolster STEM Learning. jena.passut_7651.

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Ward’s Science–So Many STEM Resources

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Basically, it’s because there aren’t enough education opportunities that require that sort of skill and those there are, usually rhyme with ‘math’ or ‘science’ which to many kids are “just too complicated” Enter STEM–Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. “I

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Sphero, LittleBits and Other Robots Bring Technology to Life

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Now the school has about 20 models, along with apps students can use on their tablets or Chromebooks to learn the basics of programming. By eighth grade, they’re incorporating the device into classroom science and math experiments , such as learning how to plot linear equations. At Nathaniel Morton Elementary in Plymouth, Mass.,

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Screencast Tools to Demonstrate Student Learning

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Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! In a screencast, students video record their digital screen (tablet or computer) and that shows them completing a task. Nimbus is another extension to screencast and also allows you to take screenshots and annotate them for visual how-to guides. Find more ideas here.

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Screencast Tools to Demonstrate Student Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! In a screencast, students video record their digital screen (tablet or computer) and that shows them completing a task. Nimbus is another extension to screencast and also allows you to take screenshots and annotate them for visual how-to guides. Find more ideas here.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

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What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education

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We deployed primarily Chromebooks , and went with the newer Chrome Tablets for kindergarten, first and second grade. We also have multimedia labs, and STEM labs that have devices with probes and specialized software for 3D modeling. Each of our 10 elementary schools has a digital learning specialist. Photo: Rachel Gorton.

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