Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...e their own passions too. Don’t be afraid to be yourself. After all, don’t we want to provide a safe space for our students to feel like they can be unapologetically themselves too? 5. Set boundaries I felt like I worked constantly for 15 months straight from March 2020 until the end of the 20...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Science TODAY™ - Corn Crop is a Bin-Buster
Using the USA TODAY Snapshot® " data from the USDA Statistics Service website, and information from a USA TODAY article, students will be asked to calculate percent change, do summations of data, observe trends, and offer explanations as to the reasons for those trends in agricultural p...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/science-today--corn-crop-is-a-binbuster
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
... help students explore and understand math. CAS definitely has a place in all math classrooms if we give it a chance! About the author: Scott Knapp has been teaching math for 21 years and has served as a T³™ Regional Instructor for 10 years. He currently teaches at Glenbrook North High Sch...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...ts. Remember, CAS isn’t only on the handheld to find answers, it’s an important tool to help understand them as well. About the author: Scott Knapp has been teaching math for 21 years and has served as a T³™ Regional Instructor for 10 years. He currently teaches at Glenbrook North High Sch...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Going Back to School With Stations
...e want students to do in our classrooms. You can use class norms to guide learning and exploring. As students work through station activities, I snap pictures of individuals and partners or groups working well together, write down quotes that I hear (students helping one another, encouraging ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschool_stations
Best of Biology
... the stages of mitosis by evaluating how different cell types reproduce at different rates, all while seeing images of cells in prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. Screenshots from the Addition by Division activity. 4. Genetics: DNA/RNA/Protein Synthesis — DNA Stru...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2022 | Texas Instruments
...na Pulley, University of Akron (Ohio) Teaching Topics Efficiently: Expressions and Equations From Algebra Through Calculus Presented by Scott Knapp and Jan Mitchener AP® Calculus Readers discuss seeing structure in expressions and equations from algebra I through calculus. They highl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/2022-webinars-top-10
Angles in a Polygon
Students will expore the interior and exterior angle of 3 polygons and develop the formula to calculate the sum of degrees without the measurement of the angles being taken.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-in-a-polygon
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...cal Educational Technology Consultant. Chromebook™, Chrome OS™, Google Drive™ and Google Slides™ are trademarks of Google LLC. About the author: Curtis Brown currently works as the Math Segment manager at Texas Instruments. He taught mathematics and AP® Statistics for several years. Si...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ions watching the “best of the best” do their thing and experiencing the excitement and drama of it all from our couches. Educators will be among those mesmerized with the stories they see but may find their own minds racing on all the rich opportunities for sports-related ideas to engage stu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
Computer Science Education Week is just around the corner … are you ready for some Python fun with your students? How do you plan to spend the week? Will you incorporate a little computer science every day? Will you teach a little computer science history? What types of activities do you like to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
To STEM and Beyond!
...the future workforce. Our students are being trained and taught for jobs that haven’t even been created yet. The ever-changing technology field needs those that can problem solve, understand logic and persevere through a problem. This is what computer science and STEM offers our students. Being...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...view. Screenshot from the Building and Interpreting Graphs activity. Earth and space science topics 2. Earth’s Surface: Earth’s Lithosphere — Ring of Fire This activity takes students on a journey around the Pacific Rim and the infamous “Ring of Fire.” Students will plot loc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
... the phenomenon, and use the NGSS SEP of Arguing with Evidence on which of the liquids had the strongest intermolecular force of attraction. Snapshot of the classroom usage of the TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software and the TI‑Nspire™ CX Navigator™ System where the student data is proj...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
Did you know Computer Science Education Week is Dec. 5–11, 2022? Looking for new Computer Science activities? Want them all nicely organized in one spot? Have you seen the new computer science resources from Texas Instruments? Now is the perfect time to check it out! As one of the contributing a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
Python is now on the TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator. As a computer science teacher myself, what does this mean for my students? What are your first thoughts? When I first heard this, I wondered, “How is this different from programming Python on other platforms? How could this benefit my...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...’s Cool!,” and the culminating project, “How to Keep a Lizard Warm.” TI has recently updated the original Path to STEM projects to now include Python! Why? Python is one of the most popular coding languages in the world today, and it is now on both the TI-84 Plus CE Python and TI-Nspire™ C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Get Out and #SpreadMathLove
...cated. Then go out and find it, log it, and move it to another geocache spot to keep the math love flowin’. While you’re out geocaching, be sure to snap some pics of the math you notice in nature, or grab a selfie with your TI math buddy trackable, then share on your public Twitter or Instagram ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/geocaching
Growing Babies
In this activity, students observe and graph data about human fetal growth rates. Students build a regression model based on the data and compare values with those of other mammals. They also compare the data to non-mammal species.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/growing-babies
August 2008 Chemistry Regents
This file contains the first 30 multiple choice questions from the August 2008 New York Physical Setting (Chemistry) Regents examination. This file is for use on TI-Nspire handhelds with or without the TI-Navigator system. The Navigator system is highly recommended as it allows for quick analys...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/august-2008-chemistry-regents
The Number of Years
Students' will chart the various ages of the other students in their classroom then the students will multiply the ages by 2 using a lower level calculator, they will then add up the total ages using the same calculator - they can now divide the class into two groups (boys/girls) and see which gr...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-number-of-years
Who Started It All? The Spread Of Disease
Students predict the spread of disease to be exponential. They then do a hands on "sharing of bodily fluids" and see the actual data and compare these results to the projected model. You actually see the number of infected after each sharing to see the shift of the model easier. Written to be c...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/who-started-it-all--the-spread-of-disease
Buy A Word
Students complete multi-step task/problem solve; use decimals, FIX key, place value keys; see that fractions/decimals represent a part of a whole in money; organize table/record; put monetary value on letters and find sum of those letters.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/buy-a-word
Manipulating Lab Data: The Diode
Introduces the Shockley diode equation, which gives the voltage-current characteristics of a diode. The equation is plotted and compared to actual diode data taken in a laboratory. The method of importing data to the TI-89 is shown, followed by instructions on how to manipulate the data to prep...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/manipulating-lab-data--the-diode
What Makes a Food Nutritious?
Students will analyze select nutritional values of specific food products and then compare those values to the recommended daily allowances published by the U.S.D.A. They will calculate percentages and fractions based upon the information they find.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-makes-a-food-nutritious