Building Class Culture With Team Building Icebreakers The beginning of the school year sets the tone for the rest of the year. This year we must prioritize informal time online during distant learning to build class culture. I’m guilty of forgetting this and it shows in my students. Sometimes we need to break from the …
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Interactive Choice Board Activity for Google Slides & Seesaw How is everyone doing? Ready to go back to school? Lately I’ve been trying to figure out ways to make back to school fun, interactive and engaging for those who are partaking in distant learning. This week I created a back to school activity that is …
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How is everyone doing? When is everyone starting school again? How are you feeling about it all? I was brainstorming ways to help with the transition back to school especially for our distant learning teachers and norms and expectations came to mind. Back to school time is when we set our norms, expectations and rules. …
I can’t believe we’re seeing this, but yes, teachers are going back to school and yes, in the middle of a global pandemic. It’s overwhelming to say the least. My goal is to make STEM activities and lessons easy to implement and easy to teach. Back to school habits and routines are vital now. Students …
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I am currently going into my fourth month of teaching STEM courses online. There have been ups and downs. I find that the more open-ended the STEM challenges are the better results I see from the kids. I put together a shortlist of STEM challenges that focus on design and are open-ended. All of these …
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Dino-STEM Everyone loves dinosaurs! Almost two years ago I purchased Smart Chick’s Dinosaur STEM packet. And I’m still using it! The students have a great time making fossils and I even go outside to hide them in sand so they could pretend to be paleontologists. For virtual STEM learning I decided to use this as …
Teachers are preparing to transition to hybrid learning, social distant learning and E-learning scenarios for the upcoming school year. Over the last two months I’ve been teaching STEM, robotics, coding and engineering class online to students ages 4-12. I decided to start compiling some great activities with links to the authors and mentioning any tweaks …
The pandemic took the old colloquial model of education and flipped it upside down and inside out. It left the education system feeling practically vulnerable as teachers and outdated pedagogy was exposed for homes to see. However, teachers rised to the challenge. Online teaching is here and here to stay. Although it is magnanimously different …
Cooped up inside with your little ones? Here’s four easy activities do at home using materials from around the house. Can you make an egg float? Materials Water Oil Instant coffee Salt 3 eggs 3 containers Lava Lamp Materials Water Glass jar Effervescent tablet or powder (Eno) Oil Water Xylophone Materials Water Glasses Bubble Wands …