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Enhancing Concepts and Ideas

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Let’s Learn About Solar Eclipses

Lessons

Students will learn about solar eclipses by role-playing the Sun, the Moon and the Earth.

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Head, Heart, Hands

Teaching STEM

This learning strategy encourages students to engage their head for critical analysis, their heart for emotional reflection, and their hands for practical application of what they have learned.

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Card Sort

Teaching STEM

This learning strategy helps students sort and categorize concepts based on meaning.

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Two Minute Review

Teaching STEM

This learning strategy helps students process and consolidate new information through an active learning process.

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Exploring Machine Learning

Lessons

Students will learn to explore how computers work by investigating how inputs get processed and appear as outputs.

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VR Career Exploration

Lessons

Students will learn about virtual reality technology and explore careers using this technology.

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Data Privacy and You

Lessons

Students will learn about data privacy and how to keep their personal data safe online.

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Jigsaw

Teaching STEM

This learning strategy helps students to divide larger amounts of information into smaller, more manageable chunks and engages students in collaborative learning.

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Think, Puzzle, Explore

Teaching STEM

This learning strategy helps students activate prior knowledge and generate questions about a topic.

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Snowball

Teaching STEM

This learning strategy helps students activate prior knowledge or share ideas in an anonymous, safe way.

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Generate, Sort, Synthesize

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students explore and synthesize information while incorporating and honoring individual points of view.

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Annotated Text Scrolls

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students comprehend large blocks of text by looking at and annotating the text in a continuous scroll format.

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3-2-1

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students summarize and engage with new content.

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Say Something

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students participate actively in group discussions.

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Visual Dictionary

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students develop a deeper understanding of new words or concepts.