The Shift from Engaging Students to Empowering Learners

http://www.spencerauthor.com/empowerment-shifts/

Here's a video that highlights this shift from student engagement to student empowerment. If you connect at all with this video, please like it, comment on it, and share it out. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel as well.

STEMfinity shop

Cool site to help along your STEAM journey with all the "stuff"

https://www.stemfinity.com

Left and Right Brain

https://custom-writing.org/blog/left-vs-right-brain

shared by Jack Milgram 

Writer & Blogger 

Grade 1 STEAM fun

Some great ideas for integrating STEAM into grade 1

http://thestemlaboratory.com/first-grade-stem-activities/

Building Games

Building Games On-Line

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-fun-online-city-building-games-run-browser/

Planning Flow Chart

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Looking for background Music?

https://medium.com/the-mission/10-awesome-places-to-find-background-music-for-video-14dd93d0d2f3

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Teacher's Guide to Computational Thinking

Computational thinking is a cognitive or thought process involving logical reasoning by which problems are solved and by which artifacts, procedures and systems are better understood. It embraces:

The ability to think algorithmically

The ability to think in terms of decomposition

The ability to think in generalizations, identifying and making use of patterns

The ability to think in abstractions, choosing good representations, and

The ability to think in terms of evaluation.

Computational thinking can be applied to a wide range of entities including:  human created objects, systems, processes, objects, algorithms, problems, solutions, abstractions, and collections of data or information.

http://codebc.ca/course/computational-thinking/

Gamification: Octalysis Framework

8 Core Drives representing each side

http://yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/octalysis-complete-gamification-framework/