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Gaming to Riches! Making Cents of Number Sense
Exploring Financial Literacy and Number Sense by having students play games that require making investment decisions, acquiring resources, bartering and selling items. By constructing their own knowledge of debt and credit, students will get a sense for positive and negative integers through deductions, interest owed, and interest accrued. Teachers can assess through observation, conversation and the …
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Beyond the Hour of Code
Completed the Hour of Code? Ready for a next step. In this session participants will explore having kids code to create content in a sandbox environment that stimulates natural curiosity and creativity. Participants will explore tools that gives kids the freedom to create content, and to demonstrate their thinking and understanding! Topics will range from …
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Coding & Computational Thinking – Beyond the Makerspace
In this session, teachers will learn the basics of block based coding and how to make use of mathematical principles to create content of and for learning. Coding is cross curricular. Participants will engage in hands on development of work samples appropriate to subjects, grade level, and classroom makeup. Assessment is not about final products, …
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Creating Interactive Classrooms
This session will explore augmented reality (using multiple senses to access information) and QR (quick response) codes to make physical content interact with digital content. Make the most of the devices in your classroom to increase student engagement through fun, interactive learning opportunities. Topics will range from creating interactive bulletin boards to hands-on student projects to using …
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Makey Makey Makerspace
Description: Getting kids to tinker, make and create content is a growing trend in education as we move towards a global market of innovative problem solvers. In this session participants will explore “makerspaces” with a technological focus using Makey Makeys & Raspberry Pis. Get those creative juices flowing! Audience: Grades 4-8 Resources: Seymour Papert on …