by Meredith Martin | Apr 28, 2015 | programming, resources, STEM
Last week, I splurged and bought the boardgame Robot Turtles to try out with my primary students. The new tech standards for NJ have a strong focus on programming concepts in the early grades, and I had heard a lot about this unplugged activity for grades K-1. The...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 17, 2015 | Chromebooks, resources, Science, STEM
Today we started our first lesson that includes 3-D printing! I am very excited, and so are my students. For this lesson, fourth graders are learning about ecosystems and the animals and insects that live there. Students choose an ecosystem to research, and design...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 16, 2015 | resources, Science, STEM
I had a request from a fourth grade teacher for a STEM lesson about human body systems. Since that’s a pretty broad topic, we narrowed it down to the circulatory system. After some online searching, I stumbled across this awesome circulatory system...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 14, 2015 | resources, Science, STEM
I had a great STEM lab today, trying out one of my new genetics lessons. One of my sixth grade classes came down and we did the Easter Egg Genetics lab. Students had to use punnett squares to determine the potential offspring of different egg colors. We used...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 13, 2015 | Link Soup, Presentations, professional development, resources, STEM, webinar
This weekend I presented a webinar for SimpleK12 on one of my favorite topics – STEM. They asked me to share my favorite fifteen free STEM web tools, which was a struggle for me because there are so many awesome resources out there. I finally managed to narrow...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 9, 2015 | Apps, Chromebooks, How-To, Presentations, professional development, resources
This Wednesday’s workshop focussed on tools for struggling learners that are available in Chrome. We looked at some of my favorite apps and extensions, and talked about how to use them. Below is the handout with links to the tools. Simply click on the...
