Tag: STEM
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Planning the last weeks of school with STEM
STEM to the Rescue: Ending the School Year with Engagement and Review As the school year winds down, it’s common for students to feel restless. Hello, Spring fever!! But what if you could harness that energy and channel it into meaningful learning experiences? Enter STEM lessons! 🙌🏻 Look for links to print and go STEM…
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Christmas Science and Literacy
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and maybe the most chaotic! I love making things fun around holidays because higher engagement equals fewer behavior issues. Plus, it’s just more fun! These are some of my favorite Christmas/ Winter Holiday activities. My absolute favorite part of these lesson units is the real world connection…
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Top 3 End of the Year STEM Units that Keep Students Engaged and Behavior Under Control
Teachers, Summer is coming!! This is always an exciting time of the year, which makes all those behavior skills your students work so hard to build all year go right out the window. 😅 No fear! Simple literacy-infused STEM units are my absolute favorite way to keep students learning and engaged during the last few…
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Ideas for Teaching The Properties of Matter in 5th Grade
Welcome to the first post in a series of upcoming posts on Ideas for Teaching Science. I am hoping to give each of my fellow teachers out there enough ideas and materials to save hours of planning time. Why scan Pinterest for hours when you can find a collection of my ideas right here in…
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STEM and Literacy Activities for Surviving Christmas and Winter in the Classroom
We all know that the couple of weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas/Winter Break can be rough on teacher energy levels and student behavior. And then, the weeks after Winter Break are tough, too. In December, we are all just waiting for that next break, and the kids more or less mentally check out. In January, its…