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Women in STEAM site with women for each day of March and read alouds

STEMy Stuff

ExploreLearning (@ExploreLearning) Have you heard?! There’s a new #ELGizmos STEM case! Students take on the role of a hydrologist to investigate why a city is dealing with increased flooding. Check out Hydrologic Cycle today and see your students have that “ah-ha” moment! https://t.co/OOhSxTSwXh https://t.co/sodk66dPPX (https://twitter.com/ExploreLearning/status/1635750925087252480?t=zx2mMzW9PnaNl7oIkf3x3Q&s=03) 

𝗧𝗖𝗘𝗔 (@TCEA)  30+ Awesome #STEM Challenges for Kids (with Inexpensive or Recycled Materials!) https://t.co/DcKVKOKJnz via Frugal Fun #steam #stemchat #teachertwitter https://t.co/5Tqew1E1yk (https://twitter.com/TCEA/status/1635748399214391296?t=7gIsD4dFvj3RxXlbwawzoA&s=03) 

In this tutorial, we created a pop-up piano using makey makey and paper circuits.  It turned out really cool and was fun to play with.  If you’re interested in doing this project, check out the video and step-by-step instructions which includes a FREE printable project template. 

Make a Light-Up Birthday Card

If you know someone who has a birthday coming up, make them a one of a kind light-up card.  I made one for my daughter awhile back and she loved it.  These are great projects for home, school or the makerspace. If you want to check out this project, there are (3) Happy Birthday templates in PDF format. They come in black and white outline so they can be colored or decorated. Here are the step-by-step instructions with printable templates.

Space Salad https://astronomy.com/news/2023/03/a-scientific-salad-for-astronauts-in-deep-space 

Daily STEM News http://dailystem.com/news/ 

ELA

Katie Kelly (she/her)  (@ktkelly14) Use this easy-to-implement framework to provide actionable feedback to support students’ reading growth and fosters lifelong readers! Check out my latest article “4-N-Framework for Responding to Readers” for more information. @ILAToday  https://t.co/1xzgDMUQmY https://t.co/tq1L7iJJqH(https://twitter.com/ktkelly14/status/1631666774780395522?t=HfX9tQkJp37jXqIxvt582A&s=03) 

Social Studies

From Charles Bullins

Social Studies Collector Cards: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gxt4fPxb00-4dLu6__uHxcw-pLmZA1gdwz7B68PwuqE/copy (These can be modified to fit any topic in Social Studies)

Guess Who? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19t09vJQomEVMcIxveIo9LqOPLR9hXh3n1ZtJ0qPyzvA/copy

Can fit any topic

Among Us Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xpxyPxFaapRWVl6iSb0RC9rTPJ24jE_vtwQkMPlJQ-A/copy

I made blank copies and had students create their own games as well

Emoji Board Reactions: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FdhG40cN-TngnQsShWWHLYs6gofEiuuodf7nbsYOFPM/copy

Paired with Differentiated texts

8 Part: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19k8GKSV4OHPoGrnErQGTFvISPXeYjzflC1LBrOliy90/copy

Toy Story Group Work: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18ygYOMkDp0jTNZsMO2454JbcPuJck8KD6hk1Lc_BNlo/copy

Divided the students into groups. It can be more or less depending on class size. They were given a particular set of slides. They read the notes and summarized and found accompanying videos. Groups presented to the class and they each created anchor charts. 

This or That? : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AZnaUt_D_vCSO3frcFFGoz-mqO-oUysJpj7XLXcJ90M/copy

Side note- A kid flipped me off in class. We handled it in class instead of writing it up and sending to admin. Making light of it diffused the whole situation and the gossiping. We all love Owen, it’s a long-running joke since I had them back in 5th. These are my covid kiddos. 

Founding Fathers Brain Dump: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1YD51qXgXNB4-iGLA1OffecAhl7pAuq136VJwFqfPDe8/copy

Branches of Gov: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QnYwtdevkTmPDMj8h6-CXCoYVKbF8HXQwzUA_gzr50c/copy

Constitutional Convention Jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1e7pwyenvhcVeUB32u5nSNOFk09NLvhoD60da7IxbGu4/copy

Yelp Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16nH29mXzNc4H6RdDn2bsQ8xVQodUkSgGzq3oa8ugJd8/copy

Rosie’s Rules is a new PBS KIDS® animated comedy series for preschoolers starring 5-year-old Rosie Fuentes, a Mexican-American girl just beginning to learn about the wow-mazing world. Rosie’s Rules aims to teach children concrete social studies lessons about how a community works, helping them develop an awareness of themselves as individuals and as part of a broader society. Like many children across the country, Rosie is part of a blended, multicultural family; Papá is from Mexico City and Mom is from rural Wisconsin. Rosie has a little brother, Iggy, and an older sister, Crystal, who is Mom’s child from her first marriage. The Fuentes family lives together in suburban Texas with their cat (and Rosie’s partner-in-crime), Gatita. Rosie is bilingual in English and Spanish and loves to celebrate her multicultural identity. Throughout the series, she joyfully introduces viewers to the art, traditions and foods of the Southwest, Midwest and Mexico.

Adam Moler (@moler3031) tweeted at 2:09 PM on Tue, Mar 21, 2023: Ss took a person from yesterday’s reading and mapped out the journey west with the hero’s journey.

#eduprotocols #sschat #sstlap @scottmpetri @jcorippo @DHelmEDU https://t.co/62njdzbBfM (https://twitter.com/moler3031/status/1638241315480821760?t=9zGKNXoxCbD66dP2I7jBTA&s=03) 

PE Arts SEL

PE Teacher Toolkit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/PE_toolkit?p=2

18 Google Slide workouts for the classroom  rom Justin Cahill  @justybubPE https://twitter.com/justybubPE/status/1629961270022529024?s=20

TechTools

31 Days of ARVR Tech Tools from Jaime Donally

Google help from Donal Strum

Other

Educators, we know how hard you all work – and we want to celebrate your achievements! The Global EdTech Awards are here to shine a light on you… Check us out and nominate here: https://edtechawardsglobal.com #GETAs23 #education #edtech #awards #RewardingAchievement