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Your Classroom Needs a DIY Wind Machine!

  • March 20, 2013

A great idea classroom inquiry  is a wind machine with which children may mess-about with aerodynamic, motion, gravity and engineering. Best of all, your classroom wind machine is made of…

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Free Plans for Fantastic Classroom Science Center

  • March 20, 2013

One of my favorite ideas for a classroom inquiry center is a marble maze made of a simple pegboard, scraps of molding, tubes and other recycled materials. The web site…

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A Good Prompt is Worth 1,000 Words

  • June 15, 2012

The Creative Educator has published my fifth article in a series on effective project-based learning, A Good Prompt is Worth 1,000 Words. I hope you and your colleagues enjoy it!…

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Constructing Modern Knowledge is hosted by Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez, co-authors of the best-selling education book, Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, known world-wide as the "bible" of the classroom maker movement.

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