All About STEM

JANUARY 31, 2025

Your students can learn about animation by designing and making their own! In this CREST project, students can learn about different types of animation, the history of animation and how to create their own animated features. There are so many options including zoetrope animation, flipbooks, stop-motion, claymation and more! Will they channel Aardman, Pixar or Andymation?

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CSTEM

JANUARY 31, 2025

By: Reagan Flowers, PhD Technical skills alone aren’t enough in today’s rapidly evolving job market. According to new research from Education Week , some of the most well-known companiesincluding Google, Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines prioritize social-emotional skills just as much as technical expertise. Google values self-awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

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MooMoo Math & Science

JANUARY 31, 2025

Waves are disturbances that transfer energy from one place to another, and they come in two main types: mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves. Although both share the ability to carry energy, they differ significantly in their nature and how they propagate. Mechanical Waves: Mechanical waves require a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel through.

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Northeastern University

JANUARY 31, 2025

We would like to invite K-8 students to join us at our Engineering for Everyone Expo on Friday, February 21st from 10:00am-12:00pm at Northeastern University (during February BPS Vacation week). This expo is open to the public and we encourage students and their parents to attend. During this time, Northeastern student organizations and volunteers will present hands-on tabletop activities/demos about various science, technology, engineering, and math topics.

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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.

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CTE Learning

JANUARY 31, 2025

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that we frequently discuss the rapidly changing world of AI. We even created a course to prepare students to succeed in understanding and utilizing AIno matter the industry they may enter in the future. Today we are highlighting a practical way in which our senior developer, Daniel, recently used AI tools to increase productivity and ultimately deliver better results for our schools.

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