Looking for a simple reflection page you can use with any STEM challenge? This free download is ready to go, with 2 STEM challenge reflection pages. Then use these pages each and every STEM day. Do you have regular (or semi-regular) STEM challenge days in your classroom? Incorporating different aspects of STEM education is beneficial and important for so many reasons. STEM challenges teach creative problem solving skills and help kids see the Keep Reading...
Onion Prints: Concentric Circle Math Art Project
Get creative: explore concentric circles and circle properties while creating a fun and low-prep concentric circle math art project using onions! I often feel like math gets a bad rap, and people feel like there's no room there for creativity. Like you are either a "math minded" person, or a creative person. Not both. But to tell someone (especially kids!) that you can only be one or the other seems stifling and unfair, and certainly not the Keep Reading...
Coding Basics: What Kids Need to Start Coding
Are you interested in helping your kids learn to code? Are you overwhelmed trying to figure out what exactly they need to get started? Well here's the short answer to what kids need to start coding: almost nothing! Many people think you need to be some sort of genius, or really good at math before you can learn to code. Maybe that’s because it used to be that one’s first exposure to coding was in college, or if you were lucky, high school. The Keep Reading...