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How to Get Your Students Engaged and Motivated to Learn
Dopamine is the brain's reward mechanism and is released when we experience something we enjoy. In learning it acts like a "save" button. Learn more about how dopamine works, strategies to use dopamine as the "save button" for your students, and resources for further learning.
STEAM Fever! What You Need to Know
STEAM Education is a hot topic in education, government and workplace discussions. Find out more about what it is, and how you can introduce it to your students.
Learning In Full Flight – Infographic
Kites are so much more than a pleasant way to spend a windy afternoon with children. The experience of decorating, building, and flying a kite provides many natural opportunties for learning new skills. Here is an infographic with six ways you can use kites to meet your learning goals in K to 12 Classrooms, Daycare & Out of School Care, Camps & Youth Organizations and even adult events.
Time in Nature Helps Children Learn
While there are many negative impacts of an indoor childhood, spending time outside and in nature helps children learn, relieves stress, develop resiliency, develop self-discipline, and makes students more engaged and interested in the world around them.
Four Trends in Education for 2022
As we start a New Year many of us are feeling the impact of Pandemic Fatigue personally and professionally, and we certainly see it with our students. This week we have put together a short list of educational trends for 2022 that we think are exciting to consider integrating into your practice - even in a pandemic - but don't add to the already heavy workload educators are carrying.
It’s Recess – Go Fly A Kite!
Adding our Kite Kits to your recess or play equipment box provides children a special opportunity to do what they love best – Go Fly A Kite – that naturally encourages social distancing, and will bring endless fun for the children in your care! Just imagine the joy on their faces when they see their kites take to the sky!
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