GCISD Secondary STEM News and Notes

These design challenges are created for elementary, however, they can be easily adapted to fit any level by tweaking the criteria and constraints, materials or adding a competition to the challenge. Let us know if you want help redesigning one of these to use in your classroom.

http://www.educatingyoungengineers.com/lego-club-activity-ideas/

Do you know about Kagan Strategies for collaboration? Contact an instructional coach to learn more about things like quiz-quiz-trade, defend your position and many more structures to guide collaboration in your classroom.

Please be on the lookout for students doing great things when they collaborate. We would love to spotlight them for all of our 6-10 STEM teachers. Email me or tweet with a short description and a picture of the student and we will post it here.

Elements of Secondary STEM

If you forgot to bookmark this site that has everything Secondary STEM.

https://sites.google.com/gcisd.net/gcisdselementsofstemlearning/home

EverFi

Have you ever checked out EverFi? They have some great resources for math and STEM. Check out some of their resources.

https://everfi.com/partners/k-12-educators/

Did something great happen in your classroom or do you want to give another teacher a shoutout? Let everyone know how great things are happening.

Email me or tweet it and I will post it here.

Articles and information about STEM outside of GCISD

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