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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. But the high turnover rate for teachers and the cadence at which they must prepare students for state testing forces educators to rely on overly procedural materials, she argued. When would I ever use this?

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Can VR help multilingual students better grasp science concepts?

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Students were tested before and after they played the game either on a desktop or through immersive virtual reality, with researchers comparing their scores to see whether the game helped the students better grasp the material. The study included 97 seventh grade students in an urban middle school in Indiana.

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Twig Education Launches Twig Science Next Gen for Middle School

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Twig Science Next Gen for middle school is an investigation-based science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) solution developed for the three-dimensional Next Generation Science Standards.

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Leading K-8 Educational Company Introduces Middle School Science Solution

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Recent research from Gallup and the RAND Corporation shows that BrainPOP is already one of the most widely used digital learning tools that elementary and middle school educators turn to for teaching students science. In the last year alone, more than 3.1 Key features of BrainPOP Science include: ? 70% of K-8 U.S.

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

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Over the course of the three-day event, these highly skilled students were tested on their knowledge of renewable energy, their design and problem-solving skills, and their wind turbines’ energy output by a team of renewable energy educators and industry professionals. Mauston Gummy Bears from Mauston High School in Mauston, Wis.

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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.

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Beyond that, the classes help students see that they have the skills and knowledge to pursue a college degree, he says. In the Columbia study, researchers tracked students who began taking dual enrollment courses in 2015 through the four years after they graduated high school. Barriers to access vary from state to state, Fink says.

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How Playful Assessment Unseated Standardized Tests at One School

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This is the second part of a two-part story looking at how one school is piloting MIT research on playful assessments to measure student growth. And perhaps most novel, instead of traditional tests, they’re using “Sparkle Sleuths,” one in an emerging set of assessment tools to measure their mastery. Read part one for background.

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