eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Here are five strategies teachers can take to make STEM come alive in their classrooms. Incorporate hands-on activities and experiments Hands-on activities let students engage directly with STEM concepts, making learning tangible and memorable.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, it does mean that STEM classrooms require skilled management to keep students focused on their tasks. Hack 2: Teach collaboration Building a collaborative environment is fundamental in STEM education. Hack 4: Cultivate curiosity Cultivating curiosity is crucial for student engagement and passion for STEM.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

Key points: Real-world relevance makes STEM learning more personal for students 12 lesser-known K-12 STEM education resources Using free resources to connect the environment to education For more on STEM concepts, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub Why are we learning this? To be fair, its a valid question.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Whether in a decked-out lab space or a more traditional classroom setting, such as where I taught this summer, below are three tips for fellow educators looking to incorporate more hands-on learning into their STEM instruction. For the summer program, I created an experiment in which students got to test out different types of road salts.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2023

A few years later, the discussion changed to an argument about the pros and cons of using a Desmos calculator on their classroom iPads. Using Desmos was seen as being particularly egregious, as educators feared that students may have access to the internet and may surf the web while they should be learning or during summative assessments.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Female middle and high school students have a high aptitude fit with, but low interest in, STEM careers, such as technology, manufacturing, and architecture, among others, according to the 2023 Female Student and STEM Career Exposure Gap Report from YouScience. Historically, however, women have held less than one-third of those jobs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As we prepare the workforce of the future, it becomes clear that we must rethink our approach to STEM education. Hands-on STEM learning is key to this evolution. Connecting STEM to real-world applications Drones are among the most impactful ways to bring STEM education to life. Key points: Industry 5.0 Why drones?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, Mercy was the first all-girls school in the country to earn a STEM certification. We became STEM certified in 2016 because we wanted independent verification of our program’s quality. Developing STEM learning partnerships Our focus on performance tasks is bolstered by a diverse community of STEM education partnerships.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2019

Real-world relevance and a little dash of humor are two ingredients that might increase STEM engagement and make learning fun for high school students, according to a new survey. on how to increase student interest, understanding, and performance in math and STEM subjects. Related: How to get students interested in STEM.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2022

June 17, 2022 — Benetech, the leading software for social good nonprofit, today announced two significant AI initiatives to reduce barriers to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and employment for people with disabilities and learning and thinking differences. PALO ALTO, Calif. AI for Accessible Math and Textbooks.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2018

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) is more than just an acronym or a collection of letters. The importance of STEM is further validated by its prominence in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Implementing PBL in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2019

recently secured for STEM – High School Chemistry from the U.S. The following are my top three takeaways from the STEM PD. Users can turn on various functions to mimic experimentation and attach various probes, such as a heater that can boil water in a test tube. I was introduced to new teaching methods of teaching.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 We highly recommend that you take the race implicit bias test. Every student should be able to see diversity in the STEM fields. percent of students met or exceeded the Science standards.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

There’s no arguing the importance of STEM education, but schools and districts don’t always have the money for “extra” STEM activities for students or teachers. Check out the following five grants; we have some for students, some for educators, and they all focus on STEM teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2020

Numerade—an online education platform founded with a mission to provide equitable access to high-quality STEM instruction—today announced the launch of free, virtual STEM summer camps open to students at the middle, high school, and college levels. Course offerings include the following: Test Prep. Precalculus and Calculus.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

. – July 27, 2022 – FEV Tutor , the most comprehensive virtual tutoring solution in K-12, was selected as a 2022 Educators Pick Best of STEM Award winner in the “Bridging the Gap: Tutoring Programs for STEM” category. About Educators Pick Best of STEM. Winners are chosen solely at the discretion of science and STEM educators.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

As we start breaking down barriers for girls in STEM, we cannot ignore the similar plight of boys in reading–a fundamental skill that builds upon itself in every subject. Find out by taking a test designed to measure bias. The target of eliminating harmful stereotypes is always moving, and students are suffering for it.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Field Trip on Tour is the Museum’s third unique distance learning offering launched since the COVID crisis hit, all developed to provide hands-on STEM exploration for students both at home and in the classroom. It includes seven hands-on STEM explorations to prompt in-depth experimentation at home, in the classroom, or both.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flinn Scientific, a flagship provider of science lab materials and safety and STEM solutions for the K-16 education market, has partnered with the Virginia Technology Student Association (Virginia TSA) to support and expand participation in virtual, intra-curricular student STEM competitions.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

When students establish a career identity, the material they learn that relates to that identity becomes more personally meaningful than just passing a test or earning a graduation credit, Christine Rodriguez told EdSurge in an email interview. As for Hatch Valley High School, Goins reports, students there saw improvement in test scores.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Are employees evaluated using bubble-in tests to prove they know the ins and outs of their job? Why is the culture to drill facts into students’ heads just to pass a test? I’ve never been a big believer in teaching to a test. Do they learn and use new skills one at a time in a vacuum?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

. –– Roylco, a leading innovator in manufacturing educational kids’ toys, proudly announces its recent accolade as “Best STEM Building Toy” in Good Housekeeping’s expert-rating “16 Best Building Toys for Kids, According to Experts.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

.— Discovery Education and select social impact partners are offering engaging, high-quality digital learning resources to students and teachers to support observances of National STEM Day. Discovery Education offers educators, students, and families hundreds of no-cost resources tailored to STEM teaching and learning wherever it takes place.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It’s no secret that over the years and due to more standardized testing, science has become a backburner subject in many American elementary schools. So how do we empower teachers with the knowledge, time, and tools they need to not only teach STEM topics, but also do so with vigor and passion? I couldn’t agree more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The global health crisis forced students out of the physical classroom and into a new virtual world for nearly two grades, and their initial homework and test scores reveal a significant decrease in knowledge transfer, social skills, and core learning habits across a variety of subjects.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2024

Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South. Early results from previous studies showed some students were able to improve their science test scores, Schneider says. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Key points: Inclusion can drive more women to work in AI and tech fields Report finds persistent STEM career exposure gaps for women 3 free STEAM education resources to nurture student curiosity For more news on STEM equity, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the technology education sphere.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2025

Summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics), is a week-long, overnight camp at USNA each year for students currently in the 7th-10th grades. In this module you will test your design within a small wind tunnel located in the USNA Hydro Lab. Top 5 Reasons to Attend the USNA Summer STEM Program!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2019

Let students choose their favorite topics to study and then seek out the best hands-on STEM curriculum and activities that meet the students’ interests. The STEM materials will be used in all of these settings. We surveyed our students to get feedback from them,” Bolshakova said.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. Instead, they are constantly asking themselves, “How does this connect to my driving question?”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An integrated STEAM education also puts students on the path to success with higher test scores, stronger attendance records, better disciplinary records, and increased engagement and graduation rates. Makerspaces are a great example of STEAM learning, letting students combine creativity and art elements into more traditional STEM topics.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

STEM isnt just the latest teaching topic: Its an innovative, cross-curricular way to strengthen problem-solving and critical thinking skills across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. And when you introduce STEM into your classroom, you get some of the coolest projects around! Launch STEM learning with bottle rockets 2.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

We had a chat with Kate about her views on STEM education, supporting underrepresented and underserved students, and how learning to fail helps all kids succeed. Kate Sample EdSurge: Not everyone has an engineer dad to support their passion for STEM. One of the things I've seen is the way kids light up when you bring STEM to them.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Have them create their inventions and test them out. Using this approach, kids get to learn about developing hypotheses (if I do this, I will get that), testing their hypotheses via building prototypes, and observing whether the prototypes work as expected. Provide materials, like cardboard paper, popsicle sticks, glue, etc.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Key points: Students must feel connected to the learning material to engage in science Helping science-averse teachers integrate STEM and literacy Want to improve STEM education? Seventy-five percent of science teachers who do incorporate hands-on activities believe this approach leads to higher test scores and grades.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

They had to find the parameters for those conditions and test out various scenarios. With Pampered Plants, for example, they created colors and symbols for the LEDs and coded symbols to indicate whether their plants were too wet or too dry. It was a lot of fun for them–they were really excited about it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

STEM learning essential, helping students develop skills such as critical thinking and problem solving–skills that will help them be successful in college and the workforce. Though many teachers tout the importance of STEM learning, many also shy away from the “E” in STEM.

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