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3 Ways to Calm Back to School Anxiety for You and Your Students
Back to school is always an emotional time for parents, students, and teachers. Personally, I know that I am excited about the new school year, but also full of anxiety [...]
Easy as Pie Math Activity
In this lesson, students can learn about fractions and geometry. Students are challenged to split three pies into equal pieces. Older students can measure the angles formed by the sectors. [...]
Pumpkin Catapults Fall Engineering Activity
Spoon catapults are a great way to exercise engineering skills to learn about physics principles. In this example, make a spoon catapult to launch a candy pumpkin (or candy corn) [...]
Answers to Your 6 Questions about Federal ESSER Funding for STEM
Throughout the last few years, both students and teachers have endured an education experience unlike anything ever felt throughout history. As schools have come back in session, teachers are looking [...]
2 Ways to Fund Your CTE Programs
Career and Technical Education (CTE) is a career-focused methodology that provides students with the foundational knowledge, tools, and skillsets to succeed in a future field. There are many connections between [...]
5 STEM Products for CTE Classes
STEM education and CTE programs are two complementary practices. Both STEM and CTE rely on real-world, hands-on instruction, and often through CTE, students can learn more about a career in [...]
4 Ways to Introduce STEM in Your CTE Classes
Career and Technical Education (CTE) is a learning methodology that focuses on career preparation. In CTE programs, students hone technical skills and build foundational knowledge to be successful in careers [...]
4 Ways to Boost Creativity with Your STEM Students
Creativity is a vital part of STEM that is often overlooked because of the focus on building technical skills. When students have an opportunity to be creative, they will look [...]
5 Steps for a Successful Flipped STEM Classroom
Summer is always a really good time to evaluate your goals and see in which areas you want to improve. A lot of the teachers are talking about flipping their [...]
16 Ways to Use Makey Makey in the Gym
Makey Makey is a small circuit board kit that allows students to connect everyday items to their computer’s keys. From there, the number of projects that can be done with [...]
5 Experiments to Teach Chemical Changes to Elementary Students
Why You Should Teach Chemical Changes A chemical change occurs when a chemical substance is transformed into one or more other substances. I find that teaching chemical changes is a [...]
5 Reasons You Need a CreateKit
All STEM education research supports that students learn best by engaging in problem-based learning and real-world experiences. To encourage 21st century learning skills like problem solving, critical thinking, design thinking, [...]
