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How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students

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Enhanced Focus and Energy Maintaining razor-sharp focus and boundless energy has always been the secret sauce for high-achieving students. They can also increase your energy , but most studies focus on short term effects. They can also increase your energy , but most studies focus on short term effects.

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Students’ Physical and Mental Health Declined During the Pandemic. Could a New Telehealth Initiative Help?

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Faced with these daunting realities, it’s understandable that school and district leaders might put deep investment in students’ physical and mental health on the back burner. Children’s Health Is Crucial to Closing the Achievement Gap Student wellbeing—including physical and mental health—is deeply intertwined with learning outcomes.

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Energy… Part 2 — Science is Sociopolitical

PHYSICS! BLOG!

Last summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Energy & Equity summer workshop (link takes you to the portal; find the current workshop info through links on that page). This Energy… Part 2 unit is meant to come after a typical conservation of energy unit. Energy as a Sociopolitical Concept.

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Extreme Heat Affects Young Children. Are Early Learning Programs Equipped for It?

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Everyone is feeling it — energy bills are up, social plans are disrupted, sleep and exercise are more elusive. That grant is part of the work LIIF is managing on behalf of the state of California to help about 4,000 providers expand and improve their physical spaces.) 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded on the planet — by far.

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Your Own Energy Story Mini Project

PHYSICS! BLOG!

This post describes a project that follows the Energy… Part 2 unit. This project was created in collaboration with Allie Boyd at the Energy & Equity summer workshop (link takes you to the portal; find the current workshop info through links on that page). If you haven’t read about that (new!)

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I

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Picture Books for 4th Grade Energy

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I love to teach the Energy Unit in 4th grade, and although it is a hard concept to teach, these are the perfect picture books to use in your class! You can also use these picture books in addition to the Love Learning Stem Energy Unit or use it in supplement to your school’s assigned science curriculum. How is energy transferred?

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