ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Competition can be thrilling and motivating to those who choose to engage.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Students from the three schools where I teach gifted students look forward to it all week long. We started with Fornite Creative but now they have moved onto Rocket League and Among Us. Just remember that when using it with students, it should be as a shared doc meaning anyone with a link has editing permission.

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Carly and Adam

OCTOBER 8, 2021

STEM Challenges and Books for Elementary Students During the Month of December STEM learning is the integration of science, technology, engineering, and math. It is a hands-on way for kids to extend their learning in these subject areas while developing creativity and critical thinking skills. Get the STEM Menus here!

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

LEGO Education designs standards-aligned sets for K-8 students and offers plenty of free support for teachers, including more than 400 online lesson plans —ranging in focus from computer science and English Language Arts (ELA) to robotics and coding— self-guided professional development and an online community where teachers share tips and ideas.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. This can result in some students falling behind due to circumstances beyond their control. Cost-effectiveness is another critical advantage.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this classroom-focused episode, join us as we explore seven innovative strategies to breathe new life into worksheets, turning them into powerful vehicles for learning and student engagement. Teachers should gradually incorporate these strategies into their teaching to enhance student engagement and learning.

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Vivify Stem

JANUARY 13, 2025

Get your students engaged about the science of heat transfer with a 5E STEM challenge that culminates with students creating a heat shield to protect a space craft and (chocolate) crew! The more materials you allow the students to choose from, the more creativity they can use when designing their heat shield.

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 5, 2023

This inclusion alters the focus on the original content areas and infuses creativity and design. This is where students are reading, writing, and calculating, learning linear, sequential information. Right brain thinkers are creative, intuitive and emotional in their thinking. It requires precision and creativity.

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 21, 2025

These March Madness-themed activities are perfect for upper elementary and can be used throughout the month to boost engagement and creativity. Perfect for grades 15, this activity combines creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork as students design a catapult to launch a ping pong ball into a basket.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 12, 2023

It is also a way to provide feedback to students on their own learning. In elementary STEM or science classes, you may or may not be responsible for providing letter grades or an overall percentage for students, but it is still important to share progress with students and their families. Join our Free Facebook Group.

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 29, 2022

An observer might walk away and think that students were “just drawing,” even though drawing can be an important part of the planning process for students engaged in engineering and design. Maybe students are twisting pipe cleaners together to create a tree or a bird or gluing popsicle sticks together to make a bridge.

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STEM Sport

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Winter-Themed STEM Activities for Elementary Students The elementary years of a student’s education are key to their confidence in the classroom, and help shape the type of student they will be at the middle school and high school levels.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 20, 2019

” For more about this, see Flow – A Measure of Student Engagement [link]. For more information about this unit, see Elementary Social Entrepreneurship: A Perfect STEAM Lesson [link]. I get to use my creativity to plan and implement them. I nterdisciplinary standards and skills are addressed. Reflection.

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Vivify Stem

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Overview of the Challenge Mats The building brick challenge mats are designed to guide students through a variety of challenges that blend creativity with engineering principles. Encourage creativity and open-ended problem-solving. Promote collaboration and teamwork among students. Grade 1: 1.G.A.1

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Challenge: Any type of hands-on extension will reinforce student understanding, as well as increase student engagement. One fun challenge is to have students build a maze using magnets. In this STEM Lesson, students design a Maze to connect 2 people using an invisible force, magnetism. Join our Free Facebook Group.

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CoderZ

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Up to now, STEM initiatives have been primarily focused on elementary and middle school students. We are working on STEM to CTE pathways guiding middle school students with STEM backgrounds to technology programs that prepare them for careers in industry or higher learning in engineering fields.

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STEM Sport

MARCH 14, 2025

This introduces students to chemical reactions in a way that is visually engaging and ties in well to the holiday. Easter STEM Activities for Elementary Students Elementary education is foundational to a student’s academic path.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For the past several decades, I have had my feet in both elementary education and teacher training and development. It is learning by doing with a reflective element which, in turn, creates conditions for deeply engaged learning. Engages the senses. More likely to engage emotions. What is EE ).

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Here, we delve into creative and engaging activities that bring the concept of a solar eclipse to life in the classroom. These activities are perfect for elementary school teachers looking to inspire their students with the wonders of the cosmos through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education.

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Carly and Adam

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Are you tired of students shouting out “I’m done!”? Is it difficult to keep those students engaged in learning? You’ve presented a STEM challenge to the class and a few students finish much more quickly than anticipated. You can read more on her blog, Creativity in the Making, at www.jaciemaslyk.blogspot.com.

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STEM Sport

JULY 12, 2022

The rapidly increasing demand to fill these STEM jobs shows the increased importance of improving STEM literacy and skills as early as preschool and elementary school. However, there is a personal benefit to each student who is interacting with STEM curriculum. Improves creative thinking and problem solving skills.

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 13, 2024

Don’t just teach about the Summer Olympics with your upper elementary students! Engage them in a hands-on learning experience with STEM! The Olympics offer a dynamic setting for interactive learning, particularly for students from third to fifth grade. 5 Summer Olympics STEM Challenges for Upper Elementary 1.

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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Virtual reality STEM lessons allow students to engage with complex STEM concepts, learn how to navigate the technology landscape, and how to use technology to benefit their education. The real-world applications offered through virtual reality lessons help students engage using hands-on learning methods.

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PCS Edventures

MAY 15, 2023

Through hands-on, collaborative lessons, campers are eager to perform fun tasks without realizing that they are calculating time, writing creative journal entries, developing maps and studying history, just to name a few! This FREE challenge boosts fluency, comprehension and hands-on creativity! Fractured Folktale: Paul Bunyan.

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 8, 2023

Once kids begin to code, you’ll see that it fosters these skills and characteristics in learners: develops computational thinking enhances executive functioning skills encourages creative thinkers and innovators At what age can learners begin to code? why is it important to introduce coding in elementary school?

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National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this blog, we will share research-to-practice insight into developing engineering experiences for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and strategies to engage them in engineering that build on their assets and evaluate their engagement. Students engage in designing a roller coaster for a client.

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Carly and Adam

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

From free play to curriculum-embedded activities, designing and constructing with bricks is a great way to engage students in hands-on learning. This post will share different types of project ideas for any elementary classroom. Free Play Students can engage in opportunities to play and create. BrentwoodEIPS.

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PCS Edventures

MAY 1, 2023

Problem-Solving Skills: Problem-solving skills are composed of creative thinking and critical thinking skills. Campers must draw on past experiences and knowledge, then develop a creative solution. Her love for literacy, STEAM and student collaboration guides her instruction and professional development sessions.

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STEM Education Shopping

JULY 30, 2023

Photo by Markus Winkler: [link] The Best Resources and Strategies Review: Stem Curriculum Guides to Engage Students and Ignite passion for All Lessons (2023) – Are you looking for the best STEM curriculum books guide to enhance your teaching and engage your students? Look no further!

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 22, 2017

With hundreds of potential combinations and ways to solve each Instant Challenge, the creative possibilities are endless! I then had the participating educators familiarize themselves with Squishy Circuits to prepare them for the upcoming design challenge and to deepen their engagement with the workshop content.

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 24, 2023

If artistic expression and creativity are incorporated into the work of your school, then you may favor STEAM over a traditional STEM approach. Both STEAM and art projects foster student creativity. They provide students with a way to expose them to new ideas and allow them to express themselves.

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PCS Edventures

JANUARY 23, 2023

PCS Edventures’ creative, academic design challenges task learners with problem-solving in various ways. There are 12 creative lessons in BrickLAB Brain Builders and each contains unique building tasks. Engaging discussions are essential throughout each design process. References: BIFROST DIGITAL FORGE LLC.

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STEM Minds

MAY 27, 2024

By engaging with robotics kits and competing in challenges, students apply their theoretical knowledge in practical settings, thus reinforcing their learning. This section will delve into how robotics education serves as a foundational pillar in modern STEM education, enhancing student engagement and comprehension.

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STEM Sport

APRIL 13, 2023

This article outlines how to gamify the classroom to increase student engagement and retention of complex STEM concepts. Why Gamification Works in STEM Education Gamification combines typical game activities and classroom curriculum/lesson plans to increase student engagement. Using game-based rewards and recognition.

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CoderZ

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Equitable STEM and computer science opportunities are something that elementary educators have struggled to implement, myself included. In each lesson, I strive to teach in a way that my students WANT to learn and in the ways that they learn best while challenging them at the same time. BUT it does not have to be!

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When students engage in a STEM challenges, their emotions can range from utter frustration to extreme jubilation. For more STEM ideas, inspiration, and collaboration with other STEM teachers be sure to join our FREE Facebook group Elementary STEM Teachers with Carly and Adam ! The following is a guest post from Dr. Jacie Maslyk.

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STEM Supplies

MAY 19, 2020

Previously, I put together a list of my elementary recommendations. For the older students who were exposed to programming and basic engineering in elementary school, drones are a great next step. Through building drones, students expand on their circuit and engineering lessons from previous years.

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