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Skill: Facilitating Inclusive Learning Experiences
Winter STEM Activities
To help spark youths’ interest in STEM and support their curiosity, we’ve compile a few easy and inexpensive STEM experiments to try out during the winter months.
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Skill: Facilitating Inclusive Learning Experiences
Kids’ Books on STEM
Looking to add a few books to your STEM afterschool program? learn four titles that take on STEM topics and practices!
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Skill: Connecting to Prior Knowledge & Experiences
3 Ways to Use Prior Knowledge
Interest survey, self-documentation, brainstrom or chalk talk are techniques that can help youth make connections to their prior knowledge and experiences.
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Skill: Connecting to Prior Knowledge & Experiences
Why is Prior Knowledge so Important?
Helping youth engage in their life experiences is a powerful motivator for learning, and it can be a springboard for their interests too!
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Skill: Modeling Science Practices
Exploring Circuits Affordably
Dough-based circuit activities help youth learn about electricity by manipulating salt-based dough and LED lights. It’s very open-ended, exploratory, and science-focused. It has even managed to captivate some of my more squirrely and resistant learners.
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Skill: Giving Youth Control
Three Talk Moves to give Youth Control of Learning
Giving youth more control of their learning has shown to be an effective way to increase their interest in STEM subjects. Learn more about voicing ideas, giving choice in inquiry, and connecting across learning spaces.
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Skill: Modeling Science Practices
A Messy Topic: Why Doing Science is Important
Engaging youth in the explanation, argumentation, engineering, and modeling of science will help them recognize that science is not just something to memorize—but rather a real, human endeavor that they too can participate in.
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Skill: Making Connections to STEM Careers
How do I Engage Youth in STEM Learning?
Struggling to engage youth in STEM learning? Looking for ways to motivate youth to think critically about STEM activities? Click2Science has compiled a few easy tricks staff can use to guide youth in STEM programming.
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Skill: Enabling Active STEM Learning
Get Outdoors!
Give children the outdoor time they deserve by offering exciting outdoor STEM activities. In order to excite youth about STEM learning, learn a few ideas to turn outdoor time into an adventure!
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