Are you looking for a way to jazz up the STEAM (STEM + arts) programming at your school? Try combining hands-on STEAM with authentic global learning...
Category - Teaching Strategies
Project-based Learning and Design Thinking I by Thom Markham
Life’s a project. We do other projects within it. Along the way we learn what we need to learn in order to complete the project...
Summertime is STEMtime with the STEMActivity App
Written by Emma Turi, Summer Fellow at Wheelock College Aspire Institute, Boston, MA. I started my summer fellowship with Wheelock College Aspire...
Back to School: Posts from School Leaders III by Sandy Nobles, Director of Education at Momentous Institute
STEM Night: A Dynamic Approach to Building Family Engagement Traditional open houses are great but at Momentous School, we decided that we could do...
Building Critical Thinking Skills: Is Purple the Perfect Color?
By Jamie Repasky As an elementary science teacher and mother of two young boys, I love hearing, “Guess what I just discovered?”. It often...
By Margaret McEwen, middle school STEM teacher This week, the group of students participating in a final exam STEM project met with a design...
Learning in Math II: Parent Resources and new Research
This is Part II of my conversation with Prof. Candace Walkington, math education researcher at Southern Methodist university, in Dallas, TX. ...
A Brief Conversation with Bill Burton, author of article, “Engineering Encounters”, and Lower School Science teacher at the Lamplighter...
Learning in Math: Personalizing Learning and more
Last fall, I had the opportunity to spend some time with Prof. Candace Walkington at SMU (Southern Methodist University) and learn about her research...
It’s that time of the year when homework assignments are ramped up. Another month or two, and our kids will be homework-free! Before that, however...