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Give one, Get one

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students organize ideas and share their thinking with others.

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Inside-Outside Circles

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students share ideas with peers in a structured fashion.

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Bumper Stickers

Teaching STEM

This strategy supports students in synthesizing their learning of a main idea or principle.

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Social Emotional Learning

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Learn about social-emotional learning and how to foster it in STEM learning environments.

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Creating Positive Learning Environments

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Explore how to create positive learning environments that support learners’ social, emotional and cognitive development.

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Exploring the World of Virtual Reality

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Learn about the history of virtual reality and how it works.

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Using Plants to Make Medicines

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Learn how plants can be used to make vaccines.

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What is the Internet of Things?

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Learn about the Internet of Things and how it works.

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Introduction to Cryptocurrency

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Learn about cryptocurrency and how it came to be.

Twenty-sided die

How Likely Is It?

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Learn about probability, a branch of mathematics that helps us predict if something might happen.

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Introduction to Banking Systems

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Learn about money and how traditional banking systems work.

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Exploring Habitats

Lessons

Students will make observations and inferences about three different habitats.

Lunar rover in its testing environment, created to mimic conditions on the Moon.

Designing Rovers for the Moon’s Extreme Environment

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Learn about the extreme environment on the Moon and the challenges this poses for designing lunar rovers.

Bacteria, whale and universe

Understanding Scale: From Planck to Cosmic

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Learn measuring the scale of everything, from the very tiny to the super gigantic!

Rover on the Moon

Can you design a rover that can survive on the moon?

Hands-on Activities

Design a lunar rover that can survive in the moon’s extreme environment.