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What I’ve Been Up To
It’s been pretty busy here in Tech For Teachers Land. The STEM Lab is getting into full swing, and work is keeping me busy, but there have also been a lot of other events and activities happening during my so-called downtime. On Monday, I was honored to present...
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Fifth Grade Catapults
Last week we did one of my favorite STEM projects, the Marshmallow Catapult. Since it’s close to Halloween, instead of marshmallows, we launched plastic eyeballs from the dollar store! The kids had a ton of fun, and we had eyeballs flying all over the room....
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Magnetic Poetry With Google Slides
The other day I mentioned @shakeuplearning‘s awesome Halloween Magnetic Poetry created in Google Drawings. After reading about it, I was inspired to create my own. After getting some programming assistance from @gersteinj, who created an amazing app to turn a...
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Presentation From The EIRC Gifted & Talented Fair
Last Friday, I was invited to be a keynote speaker for the EIRC’s Gifted and Talented Fair. I was asked to talk about STEM/STEM projects for gifted students. I had a wonderful audience, and we even made our own Punkin’ Chuckin’ catapults! Below...
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The Power Of A Twitter PLN
I love Twitter. I know some of my colleagues think I’m a bit crazy when I continually extoll the virtues of being a connected educator, but I really can’t imagine my life as an educator without it now. Twitter has become a powerful resource for me in...
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Homemade Fossils In Fourth Grade
My fourth grade students are incredibly lucky. They are going on a field trip to Mantua’s Inversand Fossil Dig. They will have a chance to learn about fossil formation, and even dig for their own fossils. I wish I was going on this trip! Because they are...
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Making Cell-fies!
Yes, I know it’s cheesy, but we are making cell-fies in sixth grade! My students are learning about plant and animal cells, and since one of the NGSS standards is to make a model of a cell, I decided to do just that. Since my shrinky dink project did not work...
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More 3D Fun
For once, I had a lazy weekend at home (that so rarely happens!), and decided to putter with the 3D printers again. One of our Phys Ed teachers has a student teacher and was bemoaning the fact that the fellow did not have a whistle. Never fear, 3D printing to the...
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Candy Corn Volcanos
Yesterday was a fun day in the lab. We truly stuck to our motto of ‘If you’re not making a mess, you’re not doing it right!’ One of the messier labs of the day was making a candy corn volcano with one of my self contained classes. Over the...
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All Aboard The FailBoat!
I always tell my students that fail is not a bad word. Instead of getting upset and giving up when we fail, we need to learn from our mistakes and keep trying. This weekend was a perfect example of failure in action. I wanted to try making cell shrinky dinks with my...
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