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High-Adventure Science: Free Earth Science Lesson Plans

By TL Editors

High-Adventure Science is a set of six modules focused on earth science topics.

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7 New EdTech Tools Worth Exploring

By Monica Burns

In this blog post, I want to take you through a few new EdTech tools worth exploring this year.

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Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards Launched

By TL Editors

The schools of award recipients will each receive a prize package valued at over $25,000, which may include a variety of needed donations to their classrooms, STEM toys and activities, school upgrades and enhancements and more.

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How It’s Done—3D Printing, Puppy Paws to Jet Engines

By Sascha Zuger

Using 3D printing to foster STEM skills and design creativity

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5E / Hero's Journey Example: Stoichiometry (Reactions as Recipes)

By Ramsey Musallam

Engage: Hero is Called

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How It's Done: Building Engineering Skills By Building Racecar Motors

By Sascha Zuger

Students, start your engines! Building engineering and other STEM skills

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zSpace Augmented and Virtual Reality Learning Platform Sales Climb

By TL Editors

Today at TCEA 2020, zSpace Inc., zSpace announced a 100% sales increase in Texas of its augmented and virtual reality learning platform.

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Best 3D Classroom Printers

By Shannon Mersand

Choosing the right 3D printer can be difficult with so many choices on the market.

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Top 3D Pens for the Classroom

By Shannon Mersand

3D pens are hand-held devices that mimic the extrusion process of a 3D printer, but allow for more free-form control over what is created.

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GameSalad Guides Kids in Digital Game Design and Creation

By TL Editors

GameSalad lets kids create custom games in a visual, rule-based coding system, so there's no need to know any coding language.

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3M and Discovery Education Announce Opening of 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge

By TL Editors

3M and Discovery Education today announced the opening of the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge.

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How It's Done: Enrichment - It’s Good for the Sole

By Sascha Zuger

The challenge took students through an online environment of the sport; set up with milestones and labs to uncover information needed to create deliverables.

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Engineering for Social Good Project #1: Empowering Fine Motor Control Using "Drawdio"

By Ramsey Musallam

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Microsoft’s Free STEM Offerings: Science and Engineering on the Cheap

By Brian Nadel

The only thing better than teaching interested children about science, technology, engineering and math is doing it for free.

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Free "LabXchange" Science Education Platform Launched By Amgen Foundation, Harvard FAS

By TL Editors

LabXchange gives students access to a library of educational videos, interactive simulations and personalized instruction to aid them in their scientific discovery.

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CoderZ’s New Cyber Robotics 102 Curriculum Engages Students in Coding and STEM

By TL Editors

Cyber Robotics 102 has students work in an online virtual environment that features a new robot called Ruby and that accurately mimics real-life physics and a physical setting.

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Raspberry Pi on Steroids: Boolean Girl Tech Lights, Camera, Sensors

By Brian Nadel

When it comes to getting the most out of a Raspberry Pi computer in the classroom, Boolean Girl Tech’s Lights, Camera, Sensors kit comes into its own.

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Curated Content Decreases Teacher Planning Time

By Annie Galvin Teich

Teachers love the new curated content channels.

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Over 40 STEAM Resources: Creative Thinking, STEM, and PBL at FETC 2020

By Michael Gorman

STEAM brings out the skills of creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication that are so important.

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zSpace and MEL Science Partner to Bring Chemistry Concepts to Augmented and Virtual Reality

By TL Editors

Today at the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC), zSpace Inc. and MEL Science announced a partnership to bring MEL Science’s curriculum-based chemistry courses to zSpace’s augmented and virtual education platform.