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Reviews | SAM Labs: Bring STEAM and Coding to Life in K-8 Classrooms

10/29/2019

SAM Labs combines physical kits with a digital app to bring coding and STEAM skills into K-8 classrooms. Their kits and app are also paired with a first-rate curriculum, which is designed to be integrated into the science classroom, or taught by a computer/technology teacher alongside what students are learning in science. The curriculum is aligned with NGSS, CCSS, CSTA, and several state standards, and is both rigorous and highly scaffolded.

Overall, SAM Labs are an excellent resource for integrating STEAM, coding, and Computer Science (CS) skills into K-8 classrooms. Continue reading on our Review's Page.

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Reviews | Typing.Com: Free Typing Curriculum for K-12 with Reporting and More

10/14/2019

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Typing.com is a wonderful, free resource for helping students learn how to type. They have a collection of self-directed lessons that guide students from beginner to intermediate to advanced. But in addition to this collection of typing lessons, the Typing.com team has also added new lessons on technology basics (that include instruction and assessments) as well an introduction to “coding” (or web design) through lessons on HTML and CSS.

And throughout it all, teachers can get detailed reports and analytics on their students’ progress. Continue reading on our Review's page.

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Reviews | Nitro Type: Free, Online Typing Practice Racing Game for K-12 Students

10/11/2019

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Nitro Type is a wonderful, online typing practice game that allows students of all ages to compete with each other in typing races. It was one of my favorite tools to use when I taught computer literacy 7 years ago, and the Nitro Type team has added lots of wonderful features since then. The biggest addition is their new teacher dashboard, which lets teachers track student usage and progress while they play the game. Continue Reading.

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Reviews | hand2mind: VersaTiles® Cross-Curricular Skills Practice System

10/10/2019

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VersaTiles® from hand2mind are classroom resources that have been used for the last 40 years as a way for students to practice various cross-curricular skills. VersaTiles® are meant to be a skills practice system that can be used primarily in K-8 classrooms to help students build math and literacy proficiency. Students use a workbook and a set of tiles to answer questions, and then check their own progress to see what they know and what gaps they might have. Continue reading.

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Interview: The Life of an Aerospace and Aviation Innovator

10/9/2019

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Registration for the 2019-20 Conrad Challenge is open until November 1,
for teams of 2-5 students ages 13-18. Learn more and register here.

Antonio Stark is an international business and a space policy consultant. He is a Brand Identity Manager for the Space Generation Advisory Council and sits on the Alumni Leadership Council for the Conrad Challenge. Stark's association with Conrad Foundation dates back to the 2015 Conrad Challenge, in which his team won first place in the highly competitive Aerospace & Aviation category for their creation of a high functioning micro-gravity space toilet.

The invention had zero motors, in contrast to the multi-motor efforts that, at the time, were malfunctioning on space crafts. As he explains, "I created a toilet bowl that basically didn't have to use any motor. It was purely water pressure, but I had to use some complicated fluid dynamics for the fluid to be able to suck in things while not having gravity."

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Reviews | SAM Labs: Bring STEAM and Coding to Life in K-8 Classrooms

Reviews | Typing.Com: Free Typing Curriculum for K-12 with Reporting and More

Reviews | Nitro Type: Free, Online Typing Practice Racing Game for K-12 Students

Reviews | hand2mind: VersaTiles® Cross-Curricular Skills Practice System

Interview: The Life of an Aerospace and Aviation Innovator

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