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Our Best Tips for Converting Classrooms into Creative Spaces

Teachers are always looking for new ways to inspire their students. We asked members of the Inventionland®Education team to give us their top three tweaks teachers can make in the classroom spark student creativity. Nathan Field, Executive Director Eliminate assigned seats. If two students who don’t get along have to sit next to each other,…

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STEAM Lesson Plan: Team SPEAR-IT

If you want a year of smooth sailing in the classroom, you’re gonna need some rules. Without them, your grand visions of collaboration can quickly go downhill. In this STEAM lesson plan, we not only introduce students to the world of polymers, but we also introduce them to the six essentials that are needed for…

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STEAM in Unusual Places

If we asked you to list of your top must-see STEAM spots to visit, what would be on your list? Maybe it’s the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, The Kennedy Space Center in Florida, or even the Leaning Tower of Pisa (I mean, really…why hasn’t this thing fallen over yet?). But did you know that…

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STEAM Lesson Plan: Three Little Pigs Design Challenge

The story of Three Little Pigs is not only a staple in the lives of most children, but it’s also the perfect STEAM lesson plan for elementary school students. In this STEAM lesson, students will work in three teams to build houses that will (hopefully) withstand the huff and the puff of the big bad…

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Teacher Feature: Karen Garland and Ben English, Grove City Area School District

Name: Karen Garland and Ben English Teaching Grades: 6, 7 & 8 Years Teaching: 9 (Karen) and 12 (Ben) Subjects Teaching: Introduction to Business, Careers, and Entrepreneurship (Karen) and Technology and Engineering (Ben) Teaching a brand new curriculum can be challenging. No one at your school can give you any tips and sometimes you may…

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Six Tips to Overcoming STEAM Fear

3D printers, model making, and injection molding…oh my! If you’re a teacher considering adding a little STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) to your classroom, but steam literally comes out of your ears just thinking about learning how to use the technology involved…don’t worry! Here are some do’s and don’ts to help you make…

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STEAM Lesson Plan: Robot Basketball

Robot Basketball: Grades 9-12 What would you do if the big game was on the line and you had to nail free throws to win? It’s a movie plot line that’s been with us since the days of Teen Wolf. But…what if you had a team of robots? In this STEAM lesson, students will design…

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Teacher Feature: Adrienne Hoffman, Cambria Elementary School

Teaching elementary school students poses different challenges than teaching middle and high school students. To be able to take complicated STEAM topics and introduce them in a way that is not only exciting but understandable to younger minds is no easy feat. Adrienne Hoffman, the Inventionland®and STEAM Facilitator for grades K-5 at Cambria Elementary School…

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Teaching When Your Schedule Changes

‘Tis the season for two-hour delays, school closings, end of semester exams, modified schedules, and everyone being sick. From January through March, there are a myriad of reasons you may not be able to teach a lesson exactly the way you planned it. Whether it’s because of shortened class times or smaller-than-normal class sizes, you…

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