eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for an exclusive mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” 3m.com or on Twitter @3M or @3MNews.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2018

A student who isn’t overly interested in science but loves history may have little interest in looking for dominant and recessive genes, until she examines more closely the links between her grandmother’s brown eyes and her own blue eyes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for an exclusive mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” 3M.com or on Twitter @3M or @3MNews. .

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2021

the winner of the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge ( #YoungScientist ), the nation’s premier middle school science competition. an eighth-grader at Dodgen Middle School in Cobb County High School Area 1. a seventh-grader at Clifford Crone Middle School in Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Key points: Encouraging reading is a top priority, no matter how the material is presented Boycotting book fairs no more Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub I love a good classic. After all, I named my son Holden.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Teachers who sat down and let middle schoolers teach them. Educators from around the region headed to Creekside Middle School in Patterson on Monday for a Google Leadership Symposium. They’re not just entertainment,” said Agustin Arreola, assistant principal at Dutcher Middle School in Turlock. Guys in lab coats?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

With so much publicity, it is reasonable to assume that all students from middle school through post-secondary are aware of its power. Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner.

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2023

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for a mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” that introduces young students to science.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

AMERICAN FORK, Utah, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — YouScience , the leading student engagement platform that leverages data science to improve student success and bridge the divide between education and careers, today announced the release of a new national report, ” State of The Future U.S. Workforce: Student Ability Report.”

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A shortage of trained teachers in Oregon is leaving school districts short-handed, so replacements without educational backgrounds are being recruited from other professions to fill the gap. This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Arizona] Prisha Shroff, Accelerated Middle School, Chandler Unified School District. PAUL, Minn.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Computer Science (CS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are popping up all over. Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for an exclusive mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” 3m.com or on Twitter @3M or @3MNews.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Clifford Crone Middle School, Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204 Samarth Mahapatra , Marietta, Ga.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. The lab is a blended-learning shared space where students can choose pre-made projects and design challenges from our four pillars—Computer Science, Engineering, Digital Arts, and, now, Entrepreneurship.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

In the beginning of the school year, it would take her quite a bit of time, 30 minutes or longer, just to get to a place where she could return to the room. My science lessons are very collaborative and inquiry based, so students are working together in groups or pairs, and sometimes she struggled with it.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Project-based learning focuses on “more authentic experiences in the real world beyond school walls ,” says John Larmer, editor in chief of the Buck Institute for Education’s PBLWorks. Another example: Students at McKissack Middle School in Nashville, Tenn., This requires significant teacher-student interaction at a group level.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. Like Angie, Croft’s online game options also get stuck in the school’s filters.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. Who could I be here? That's a critical turning point.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2016

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, E-Line Media, and founding sponsor the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) aim to motivate interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among youth by transforming their natural passions for playing video games into designing and creating their own.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. In 2012 when the magnet program was created at Paulding, Pedersen established the high school’s first biotechnology class. Then each topic gets intertwined with biotechnology. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

Many years ago, I also ran a college prep mentoring program, so I had some experience working with middle school and high school students. While I was studying at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, I did a lot of work with the Harvard Education school, and that was fantastic. Danish Kurani.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt. Its worse when class and race intersect, he says.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

In fact, with some supervision, I tasked two middle school students to unbox and set up the printer, and in less than 15 minutes , we were printing our first test object. That’s what my middle school football coach told me. The filament then feeds up a tube and into the direct-drive extruder.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. DiscoverE offers a wide selection of hands-on science-fair-type activities to inspire and motivate students. Future City.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. As soon as they enter school, they figure out the habits and patterns that will help them get through successfully.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

My children are now on regular video chats, as is my husband, a middle school science teacher. A fair warning when playing Minecraft Earth, especially while walking: The app is a significant battery hog unless you turn on battery saver mode.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

To allow for deep dives in areas of interest for students, Bullis, a K-12 independent school in Potomac, Maryland, where I work, offers “signature” programs in four areas: entrepreneurship, humanities and global studies, STEM and visual and performing arts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Past Teachers-in-Residence include a middle school science teacher, a kindergarten teacher and a performing arts teacher, but for this year’s program, the library specifically wanted to bring on a civics teacher to build out its digital collection of civics-focused curriculum materials.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

It’s an outlet for them, a place where they can direct their passions for environmental sustainability, community and science. And last year, feeling like he had still more time to spare—particularly as he and his wife became empty nesters—he went to a job fair angling to become a mailman. We’re making a product that tastes good.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Hoover High School. Pleasant Middle School. Belie-Blank – Spencer CSD is doing math-science extracurricular with 6-8 graders. Sioux City CSD – opening a K-5 STEM specialty school in Fall 2015. – a group of teachers and administrators working together to make this happen?

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STEM Interdisciplinary Quizzes Math 94

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

EdSurge will be hosting jobs fairs in the following cities: San Francisco ( April 25 ). As a middle-school science teacher in San Francisco, Kleine had been using ClassDojo, a classroom management and communication tool. But the first hires are the most crucial. Looking for a new role? New York City ( April 27 ).

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

By middle school, your students are starting to discover their places in society. Do you feel like this is fair? What should society value more: art or science? Important Sociology Topics for Middle School Looking for additional ways to bring sociological topics into a middle school social studies class?

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