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5 Steps to Gamify Your Elementary Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Heather Marrs shares how to get started with gamifying your classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How could you take your whole elementary classroom year and gamify it? What if everything students learn could gain them XP (experience points?) If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.

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Why Elementary Needs STEM Integration

EdTechTeacher

Post by ETT Instructor Shawn O’Neill As educators we know that incorporating STEM into our elementary classrooms has benefits that reach far beyond just science and mathematics. (1) Many would argue that this change begins in our elementary schools. between now and 2031. (2) So how do we change these statistics?

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Maker-Enhanced Writing Workshop: Character Development

User Generated Education

This month I started a maker-enhanced writing workshop with a group of gifted 3rd through 6th grade students. Since I work with 3rd through 6th graders, I use the one for elementary students. Authentic Learning Experiences – [link]. Intentional Creativity – [link].

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Differentiating Instruction in Kindergarten and Elementary Grades with Laura Robb

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, kindergarten and elementary grades are fundamental. EXTENDED EPISODE - Episode #791- The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast Differentiating Reading Instruction in Kindergarten through Elementary Laura Robb, Reading Expert. Robb is a keynote and featured speaker at conferences and leads workshops all over the country and in Canada.

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Help Kids Learn to Code with Dash and Dot from Wonder Workshop

The CoolCatTeacher

These Wonder Workshop robots make it easy to learn to code in my STEM lab. This is a sponsored blog post by Wonder Workshop. So, out of all of the items I had available, Dash and Dot from Wonder Workshop were the ONLY ones which I didn’t have to help my students figure out. Any elementary classroom.

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Introduction to Design Thinking for Educators Workshop

User Generated Education

I had the opportunity to facilitate a workshop on design thinking for educators at the New Mexico Association for the Gifted Fall Institute. I then had the participating educators familiarize themselves with Squishy Circuits to prepare them for the upcoming design challenge and to deepen their engagement with the workshop content.

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Put your outside helpers to work

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here’s what my schedule looked like: Workshop 1 (all teachers and administrators) = reconciling competency-based education and deeper learning. Workshop 2 (leadership teams) = leadership challenges related to deeper learning. Workshop 3 (elementary teachers / instructional coaches) = redesigning elementary lessons for deeper learning.

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