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13 Websites on Architecture/Engineering

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Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using for Architecture and Engineering: Architecture. The Geometry of Sustainable Architecture –in Google Earth. Concord Consortium –chemistry, earth science, engineering, life science, physics. ASCEville –Civil engineering jobs, activities. Classroom Architect.

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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

ED Surge

A physics professor is creating labs that can be done online or in virtual reality. Medicine and nursing programs have been natural fits, but some in the humanities are experimenting too, such as in architecture and film. And a third professor is learning how to code her own VR escape room.

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3 Apps Disguised as Games to Help Bolster Learning

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Isaac Newton’s Gravity Game is a collection of successively-more difficult puzzles based on creatively applying a knowledge of physics. As they strategize, they learn the physics concepts that enable their goal. As they strategize, they learn the physics concepts that enable their goal. Educational Applications.

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How a New Approach to Early Childhood Could Avert a ‘Public Policy Catastrophe’

ED Surge

The period from prenatal to age 3 is a uniquely consequential window of human development during which the fundamental architecture of the brain is “wired.” And that's very different from, ‘Is this someone who can help to change diapers and make sure their physical safety is ensured for eight hours while I'm at work?’

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Measure me up! A cross-curricular and multicultural approach to STEM through measurements

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To do so, every partner country decided to share an area of expertise and design hands- on activities, so the students could explore areas that traditionally are not covered by the curricula in Secondary Education, such as architecture, astronomy and cultural heritage history. They participated in a workshop about physics and chemistry.

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Learning and Playing and Why Both Matter for Teachers

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In general, research shows strong links between creative play and language, physical, cognitive, and social development. Young children learn the most important things not by being told but by constructing knowledge for themselves in interaction with the physical world and with other children – and the way they do this is by playing.”

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Why STEM Jobs are Good Jobs

Career in STEM

No matter what your interest, there is a place in STEM for you!

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