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Brain scans show building blocks activate spatial ability in children better than board games -- ScienceDaily
"children's spatial processing. Such processing includes mental rotation, which involves visualizing what an object will look like after it is rotated. The research lends new support to th...
The Playful Learning Lab
Code + Chords Squishy Circuits OK Go SandboxCircus Engineering Center for Engineering Education Engineering for Deaf Students"
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Kids Ahead - The coolest science, technology, engineering, and math stuff for kids like you!
"Kids Ahead is the place to find the coolest science, technology, engineering, and math stuff for kids like you. So what are you waiting for? Start exploring!"
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Purdue Online Engineering
"Purdue Online Engineering MastersProfessionals choose to return to graduate school for career and skill advancement, and students choose our graduate degrees in Engineering so they can advanc...
Girl Scout Team to Get Patent on Prosthetic Hand Device - ABC News
In 2010, the girls entered the worldwide FIRST LEGO League science and engineering challenge, which focused on robotics applied to medical issues. Having decided to work on hand and arm prosthetics...
STEM & Visual Learning: A Natural Partnership
hands-on problem solving and communicating ideas in the most direct way.. a celebrated example of integrated literacy in Galileo’s notebooks. His systematic use of observational drawing with writ...
Half an Hour: Things You Really Need to Learn
what you need to learn in order to be successful. Moreover, it is something you can start to learn this year, no matter what grade you're in, no matter how old you are.
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5 ways to support kids who struggle with student-directed learning | The Cornerstone
We have to support students in being independent and self-motivated. How do we get kids to go from saying “Just tell me what to do!” to truly taking ownership over their learning? Here are 5 st...
Thinking like an engineer: Implications for the education system
insights into the ways engineers think. It goes on to suggest ways in which the education system might be redesigned to develop engineers more effectively. The report also makes suggestions as to h...
Pentominoes - Introduction
"Polyominoes is the general name given to plane shapes made by joining squares together. Note that the squares must be 'properly' joined edge to edge so that they meet at the corners.E...
Common Core State Standards Alignment Sheet Spatial Reasoning
"HSG-GMD.B Visualize relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects"
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links — think3d!
"Spatial Reasoning and STEM Success"
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think3d!
"Think3d! promotes the spatial reasoning critical to success in math and science. Spatial thinking skills are an indispensible foundation for understanding math and science concepts and yet t...
Conceptual Transformation and Cognitive Processes in Origami Paper Folding - viewcontent.cgi

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Taylor&Tenbrink, 2013.pdf
"Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paperfolding, involves spatial thinking to both interpret and carryout its instructions. As such, it has the potential to providespatial training...
How Can Students Better Apply Math Learning? New Studies Hold Answers - Education Week
"The program, Think3d!, consists of six units in which students in grades 3-6 learn to fold origami and build paper structures, both from diagrams and by reverse- engineering from models. In t...
Episode 76 — Creative Diversity | The Engineering Commons Podcast
"A well-known model of cognitive style is Kirton’s Adaption-Innovation theory. A normal distribution exists across this continuum, both for the general public and for engineering professiona...
Designing Science Inquiry: Claim + Evidence + Reasoning = Explanation | Edutopia
"CER model, an explanation consists of: A claim that answers the question Evidence from students' data Reasoning that involves a "rule" or scientific principle that desc...
The Design Thinking School \ What we do
"explore the role of sharing, not just setting, success criteria, and the scope for adjusting those criteria upwards as students progress in a project."
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iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » How We Got to Now: a student created mini museum
How We Got to Now: a student created mini museum - hundreds of years of invention and many of the unsung heroes. The six innovations include: glass, time, clean, light, sound, and cold.
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