Middle Web

MAY 5, 2024

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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STEMe

MAY 5, 2024

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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Teachers are Terrific

MAY 5, 2024

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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STEMe

MAY 5, 2024

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.

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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.

Teaching

STEMe

MAY 5, 2024

The moon has always been the center of attention in space exploration. When someone mentions NASA, most people think of the first moon landing. NASA is returning to those roots by launching the Artemis Program. When NASA was first created, its main goal was to win the Space Race and prove America’s technological superiority over Russia. In 1969, NASA officially won the race when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

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