Brains and Screens
Fifth graders are curious about the world around them and use a lot of social media. Do students understand what their brain can do and how the use of social media or too much computer time can impact their brains and bodies?
Looking Through the Eyes
Students growing up in today have little exposure to hands-on technologies that can help them to experientially understand the workings of the eye; yet, the eyes and an understanding of light (and how it moves) are essential to understanding many of today’s technologies.
Design with C.A.R.P.
Starting as early as kindergarten, students create visual content to demonstrate their learning, yet they are usually not taught how to make the content visually appealing and easy to understand. Design with C.A.R.P.
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Learn from Experience - Machine learning
How does “hey google” know what genres of music you like?. “Learn from Experience” helps students explore the concept of Machine Learning with an activity that goes through the steps of how to train a computer to learn and how to use the learned experience to predict an outcome.
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Catapults -Conducting Fair Tests to Guide the Engineering Design Process
The main objective of the lesson is to provide 4th grade students with an opportunity to experience the engineering design process.
Material Properties
Matter is all around us. Many students intuitively know that wood is harder than dough. This lesson gives them the starting foundation for understanding how scientists look at materials and decide what category they fit into.
Guide on the Side
As it is used in teaching, the phrase “be a guide on the side, not the sage on the stage,” refers to the idea that the teacher functions as an informative facilitator, and allows students to actively interact with new information by working with one another.
MakerEd Integration For any Subject
This is an example lesson, plus supporting coaches’ documentation, for an integrated maker ed, PBL lesson. It should be seen as a “cooking” technique into which an educator may insert their own curricular ingredients and seasonings.
Prezi This: Making Digital Presentations
It is beneficial for students to learn how to create and use effective tools to communicate and convey information to inform, persuade or entertain even as early as 3rd Grade.
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