eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2025

Exploratorium: Science Snacks The Exploratorium, a renowned museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco, offers Science Snacks–free, hands-on STEM activities designed for students in grades 3-12.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 18, 2025

Veterans Day, celebrated every year on November 11, is an opportunity for your class to honor real-life heroes, learn about the meaning of service, and have fun with hands-on activities. Beyond being enjoyable, these activities encourage meaningful discussions and deepen their understanding of the day.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

When she needed a fun end-of-year activity for her first-grade students incorporating Candyland, gummy bears and phonics, Irene Farmer turned to ChatGPT. “It school districts for the 2024-25 school year and found that 37% discussed AI in at least one board meeting.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

If you’re like me, you have tried-and-true activities and assignments that you’ve relied on for many years. He recommends using this framework to guide your thinking: break down each assignment, project, or discussion board activity into disparate steps, then decide for which parts of the process AI use is appropriate.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

That involves making predictions, testing ideas, discussing their thinking, and revising along the way. small-group activities, math routines, and table games), a Spanish-language version, and Transitional Kindergarten (TK) in California. million students nationwide. “The InsightMath is available nationwide.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2025

Not just general practitioners–these middle schoolers aimed high and discussed specialties like cardiology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, plastic surgery, and anesthesiology. The range of careers students presented was impressive and included jobs like animators, hospice nurses, and lawyers.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

Design exploratory science activities 5. Preschool: Full Year Curriculum {Plans and Printables} BUNDLE By Mrs Plemons Kindergarten Grades: PreK-K This bundle focuses on exposure to core subjects with summary pages, printables, and activity overviews. Every activity can be used with one or more students. Table of Contents 1.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Building on this tradition, the activity we will share here not only incorporates music but also integrates artificial intelligence, adding a new layer of engagement and critical thinking. Interpret and Discuss   Within their groups, students analyze the song’s meaning. 2022; Nuessel and Marshall, 2008; Vidal and Nordgren, 2024).

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Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Think-Pair-Share is a three-step discussion routine that helps students build confidence in their ideas before they share them with a larger group. These types of questions not only get students thinking but also give them something to discuss. That little difference shows what active participation actually sounds like.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Without adequate reading, students will be reluctant, or unable, to participate in class discussions and conversations for lack of understanding and fear of not measuring-up to peers (Severe, E., The activities provide multiple entry points that allow students to utilize the tool right away. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A.,

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 21, 2025

Use these easy and effective ELA activities for middle school to keep students engaged and teach them valuable skills. These short ELA activities for middle school get students thinking and writing quickly. 4 Refreshing ELA Activities for Middle School Reading How do you balance classroom fun with ELA CCSS ?

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

In a recent interview with K12 Digest, Nam Ngo Thanh discussed his experience with technology, innovation, and education. For example, when I want to foster peer dialogue, I might use technology to let students record and respond to one another in a way that feels safe and authentic, especially for those who may be shy in live discussion.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

If you’re like me, you have tried-and-true activities and assignments that you’ve relied on for many years. He recommends using this framework to guide your thinking: break down each assignment, project, or discussion board activity into disparate steps, then decide for which parts of the process AI use is appropriate.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. The traditional flipped classroom model, which reverses the conventional lecture-homework structure, has evolved significantly since its inception. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2025

Says Shiren Vijiasingam (SV): Educators can use IgniteAI to conduct tasks—create quizzes, generate rubrics, summarize discussions, align content to outcomes, and more. It also enables educators to engage other AI solutions. Says Zach Pendleton (ZP): To date, many AI integrations are isolated solutions serving a single function.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. The traditional flipped classroom model, which reverses the conventional lecture-homework structure, has evolved significantly since its inception. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Among the new content and resources now available to users of Discovery Education Experience are: Ready-To-Teach Lessons Enhancing Curriculum Built around research-based instructional strategies, these new ready-to-teach lessons and activities target critical classroom needs and help teachers create unique learning opportunities for each student.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Beginning Add literature/resources from neurodivergent, disabled, and diverse authors to assigned course readings and class activities. Create community guidelines for discussions that include intention and impact/anti-bias language. Immediately address ableist /biased remarks in the classroom through discussion.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

To address this dismal response to education, we must promote inclusive and respectful learning environments that foster engagement, motivation, and active discourse. Motivated by intentional opportunities for collaboration, students actively process information in favorable conditions that are both supportive and stimulating.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

We’ve discussed grit, growth mindset, intrinsic motivation, relevance, autonomy, and purpose. If a learning activity helps you become someone of value in your social group—if it earns you the respect and belonging you crave—you’ll throw yourself into it. And motivation, for adolescents, flows from that deep biological imperative.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Building on this tradition, the activity we will share here not only incorporates music but also integrates artificial intelligence, adding a new layer of engagement and critical thinking. Interpret and Discuss   Within their groups, students analyze the song’s meaning. 2022; Nuessel and Marshall, 2008; Vidal and Nordgren, 2024).

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2025

Incorporating purpose-building activities into counseling and advising–such as career and college readiness skill development, interest-based clubs, or guided goal-setting exercises. Using teletherapy services to expand access to licensed professionals in areas with shortages. Encourage reflection.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Students can post text, images, or videos, making it perfect for brainstorming, digital discussions, and sharing resources. Ive used it for activities like labeling parts of a lightbulb, where students can draw, type, and share without the pressure of presenting. Unlike Padlet, its not free–but the features are worth it.

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Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

See also 50 Project-Based Learning Ideas 50 Ideas For Simple STEM Activities For Kids 1. This STEM activity helps students learn more about propulsion, friction, and even design iteration. Discuss density, polarity, and chemical reactions. Observe and discuss how the sun’s position affects shadow length and angle.

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Priceless Ponderings

MAY 18, 2025

6 Easy Science Activities and experiments MAGNETS how do they work? Below are some playful and educational activities with magnets that turn your classroom or kitchen table into a mini science lab. Plus, when you pair reading with discussion, those magnetic concepts really start to stick! The cool part?

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

Through hands-on activities at DelSesto Middle School and a field trip to URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus, the URI students helped the sixth graders understand how lessons in their science classes had real-world applications. “The This ensured that all students at our school were included in the discussions.”

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

Balancing extracurricular activities and school was the largest concern among students, followed by sleep struggles and finding a relationship or feelings of loneliness. Chatbots that are not designed for that purpose, such as ChatGPT, could be “risky at best and harmful at worst.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Instead of fearing AI, we should actively explore its potential in the classroom, emphasizing how it can enrich the learning experience. Strategic Approaches to AI Integration One effective strategy is to intentionally redesign classroom activities and assignments to incorporate AI tools.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 12, 2025

Each role targets a specific reading skill, and when students cycle through all four, they’re not just reading, they’re processing, discussing, and deepening their understanding. These kinds of questions open the door to meaningful discussion and help students engage with the text on a whole new level.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge. What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

To address this dismal response to education, we must promote inclusive and respectful learning environments that foster engagement, motivation, and active discourse. Motivated by intentional opportunities for collaboration, students actively process information in favorable conditions that are both supportive and stimulating.

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Then follow with interactive tasks like a drag-and-drop activity where students can match new vocabulary words like evaporation, clouds, or rain to corresponding images. Why it works: These activities make learning sticky. You can spotlight a few responses or guide discussion using sentence starters. or What word do you hear?

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Dr. Pooja Agarwal Dr. Michelle Rivers Dr. Janell Blunt Whiteboard Activities Dr. Janell Blunt , an associate professor of psychology at Anderson University in Indiana, uses personal mini-whiteboards with her college students in every class. ” “That’s going to guide our discussion for the day,” she explains.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

They don’t just activate the intellect—they ignite curiosity. Here’s what I learned the hard way: Bad paradox = bad discussion If the question is too vague or too clever, students freeze. Have students pair up and discuss both sides for five minutes. It turns out, paradoxes are rocket fuel for learning. Isn’t that the point?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

They don’t just activate the intellect—they ignite curiosity. Here’s what I learned the hard way: Bad paradox = bad discussion If the question is too vague or too clever, students freeze. Have students pair up and discuss both sides for five minutes. It turns out, paradoxes are rocket fuel for learning. Isn’t that the point?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

With funding from the National Science Foundations Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (NSF S-STEM) program, we provide scholarships and support students with co-curricular activities to enhance their educational experience. deal with the stresses of graduate school and promote self-care, we hosted group yoga sessions.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Multi-sensory learning techniques, such as hands-on activities, visual aids, and interactive discussions, further enhance understanding and retention. Supervised group projects, clubs, and school-wide activities further reinforce these skills in real-world settings. Communication is at the heart of this partnership.

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