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Learning Beyond the Classroom

Catlin Tucker

One of the first videos she found was titled “10 Science Projects for Elementary School Students,” which demonstrates a simple experiment and explains what is happening. My kitchen has become her laboratory on the weekends! She was excited to show me how raisins dance and how socks can be used to make snake bubbles!

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Kidwind Celebrates Top Renewable Energy Innovations From Students At The 2023 National Kidwind Challenge

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Middle School Division (Grades 6-8) The 2 Dominators from Sand Creek Middle School in Albany, N.Y. from Smithfield Middle School in Smithfield, Va. W Squared from Oakley Middle School in Oakley, Kan. Elementary School Division (Grades 4-5) Hutch STEM Blue from STEM Magnet School at Allen in Hutchinson, Kan.

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Middle schools take part in Department of Defense math games

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Educational video game developer DimensionU hosted the 3rd Annual Department of Defense Math Games Tournament at four military research laboratories around the country. Middle school students from four states competed in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade level teams. In Illinois, the U.S. In New Jersey, the U.S.

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Is the maker movement putting librarians at risk?

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Stories, stories and more stories,” she told the school board last month. The Ray Marsh Elementary School directory lists Bombeck as “librarian” because she is state-certified to be one. But at least four Shawnee Mission grade schools have hired “innovation specialists” to run their libraries when fall classes open.

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Students see the future through robots

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” Dozens of students from Vista View and Mesa View middle schools and fourth- and fifth-graders from Westmont and Lake View elementary schools, in teams of two or three, worked over the school year to create their robots, said Sandi Lewis, a STEM teacher with the district who acted as mentor to the kids throughout the project.

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Vernier Software & Technology Takes Science to the Next Level

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This standalone data-collection platform takes the award-winning LabQuest interface and enhances it with a robust set of new features and functionality for middle school, high school, and college students to use during classroom, laboratory, or field investigations.

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Stem Education in 2020

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Now it is possible to create virtual reality and virtual laboratories for students to practice in. STEM has turned out to be appealing not only for students but for their parents as well (which lacked a STEM approach during their school years). Grants and New Opportunities.

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