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What Picture Books Add to a Middle School Class

Middle Web

Katie Durkin has begun adding picture books and read alouds to her seventh grade classes. She finds that in units like historical fiction and social justice, they bring students a sense of nostalgia, help them grasp difficult abstract concepts, and create a shared experience. The post What Picture Books Add to a Middle School Class first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Frozen Worlds: Detecting Life in a Single Ice Grain

STEMe

Does life beyond our planet exist? Such a question has been the subject of consideration for as long as we can remember, leading to intensive efforts to answer this question. According to a recent paper from researchers from University of Washington and the Freie Universität Berlin, we may be able to identify the presence of such life in our very own solar system, more specifically, on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. 2017’s Cassini mission, a space research venture by NASA, the European Space

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Ways to Combine Math, STEM, and Competitions

Teachers are Terrific

Let’s combine an exciting STEM Challenge and collecting data. Students will use data to calculate the mean, median, mode, and range after completing each task! This is all about cup stacking! Now, you know this is true >>> If you give a group of students a stack of cups, they will immediately take them apart and start building pyramids.

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An Explanation of Basic Astronomy

STEMe

Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and wondered about the twinkling stars scattered across its expanse? Astronomy, the study of celestial objects such as stars, planets, and galaxies, offers a fascinating glimpse into the vastness of the universe and our place within it. When we look at the stars, what we're actually seeing is light that has traveled across space to reach our eyes.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Chandrayaan-3 Space Exploration: India's Next Leap Towards Lunar Exploration

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Adhrysa Utchil, Dubai, UAE. In the vast expanse of space, where dreams collide with the unknown, India's Chandrayaan-3 mission emerges as a beacon of scientific ambition and exploration. The ISRO spacecraft, a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 and 1, set out to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface, successfully reached the south pole of the moon.