by STAO ADMIN | Dec 12, 2019
In this activity, students learn about engineering design by constructing elastic powered cars from everyday materials that can travel in a straight line for a distance of at least 3 meters within a 1 meter wide track. They test their elastic powered racers, evaluate...
by STAO ADMIN | Dec 12, 2019
There are now many ways to create blogs for students. Some schools are using EDSBY where groups can be made and internally a blog can be formed within the school. Public and free programs such as wordpress can be used, or if you or your board can put some money into...
by STAO ADMIN | Dec 12, 2019
Technology Focus: Google Docs & Scratch. Video Games are an important industry that employ thousands of people. These games are created with creativity, ingenuity and problem solving, these are all aspects of STEM. We should endeavour to have our students create...
by STAO ADMIN | Dec 12, 2019
Students watch the teacher demonstrate the OJ powered clock. The teacher guides students to wonder what they could change to make the clock work. They do some brainstorming and then the next period, they try it out themselves. There are some optional pre-lab...
by STAO ADMIN | Dec 11, 2019
Paper “clickers” are a simple and cost effective way to boost students’ conceptual understanding and improve their metacognitive skills. All you need is a computer, data projector and paper multiple choice answer cards (clickers) for each student, and you can get...
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