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STEM Lab – Egg Drop Challenge
This week I started our first Grade Level Challenge. Our fifth grade students will be designing Mars Landers to safely land people (a raw egg) on Mars (the playground after being tossed off the school roof). This is one of my favorite memories from elementary...
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Wednesday Workshop – Google Hangouts
Here’s the handout from today’s workshop on Google...
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Wednesday Workshop – Awesome Google Tools
I’m a bit behind lately; we’ve been busy preparing for and then taking the PARCC test and it has turned my brain in to mush! Thankfully, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully once testing wraps up this week I can get back to posting....
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Wednesday Workshop: Google Calendar
Yesterday’s Wednesday Workshop focused on Google Calendar. We covered the basic settings for calendars, as well as how to create multiple calendars, create appointment slots, and also looked at a booking calendar site that integrates with your Google Calendar...
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STEM Lesson – Punkin’ Chuckin’ Challenge
Learn about levers and angles with this fun siege engine activity perfect for Halloween! Students will construct simple catapults with craft sticks and rubber bands, and compete to see who can launch a candy pumpkin the farthest. Includes NGSS and CCSS, teacher...
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STEM Lesson – Marshmallow Tower
Let your students become engineers in this engaging engineering activity. Using only marshmallows and spaghetti, students compete to build the tallest tower that can support weight. Includes lesson instructions, writing assignment, and NGSS/CCSS.
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Wednesday Workshop – Google Drawings
Google Drawings is a very under-utilized tool in Google’s suite of apps. While most people tend to think of it in terms of pretty drawings, there is so much more it can do. Use it to create Venn diagrams, concept maps, interactive activities, and so much...
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STEM Lesson – Weather Fronts
In this engaging lab, students will design a model of what happens when two air masses meet to form a front. They will learn about types of fronts, and how they affect weather prediction. This activity includes instructions for the physical model, as well as a variety...
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STEM Lesson – M&M Math, Distributive Property
Math and chocolate, what a great combination. My students loved learning about the distributive property with this fun and tasty lab. How about a delicious math activity to teach the distributive property? In this STEM lesson, students learn about the distributive...
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STEM Lesson – Bird Beak Adaptations
Our 4th graders are learning about adaptations, so I put together this fun lab for them. We had a ton of fun with it. This is a fun lab for learning about adaptations. Students will rotate between stations with different types of ‘bird food’ and use...
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