Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...t and diameter of each of the medals is as follows: With this information, along with the current gold prices, students can calculate how valuable (financially, of course) a gold medal is versus a silver medal. Students can find the historical value of gold per ounce (interactive chart b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...rm with them on ways to achieve a badge, help them complete a badge already in progress, or simply create a fun, engaging STEM event, like our STEM Squad. We will do our best to support requests large and small. For example, this April, my colleague, Beth Smith, will help Girl Scouts of West Ce...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
In honor of National STEM Day, we want to introduce you to the Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Squad, a team of former teachers, current teachers and TI employees that’s on a mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been tour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
It’s Computer Science Education Week, an annual event for partners and educators to come together and encourage students to try computer science. In 2015, I was introduced to coding with students when I became part of an after-school organization with a team of teachers, students and professi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
...pling Distributions (Units 3, 4 and 5) Presentation Feb. 1: Inference for Categorical Data (Units 6 and 8) Presentation March 1: Inference for Quantitative Data (Units 7 and 9) Presentation Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live and previously recorded Offic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
Over the past month, students have seen games, light sequences, scales and even familiar songs come to life during ShadOnline. Hundreds of ShadOnline participants solved coding problems virtually during Texas Instruments’ innovative workshops. Whether it was running a program p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
TI’s Response to COVID-19: We Are Here for You
Updated May 8, 2020, by Peter Balyta (@pbalyta) Together, we continue to face an unprecedented situation. Hundreds of thousands of schools around the globe have closed, and teachers have been thrust into a new reality: virtual learning. For many teachers, it has been a crash course in preparing...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/coronavirusresponse
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... also facing the impact of a global pandemic on students’ mathematical understandings, opportunities to learn and social-emotional well-being. The situation creates unique challenges as we begin the 2021–22 school year, but by shifting our perspectives, we can view each of these challenges as an ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...he First Week Back at School.” There are many things in there that are still accurate, but I have some new suggestions in light of today’s current situation. Here are five ways to make sure that this school year is better than before! 1. Build relationships with your students Whether you star...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...ing of Fire This activity takes students on a journey around the Pacific Rim and the infamous “Ring of Fire.” Students will plot locations of earthquakes and volcanos to see if any pattern emerges. Screenshots from the Ring of Fire activity. 3. Earth’s Water: Fresh Water — Th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
Thanks for stopping by the TI booth or joining a session at #NCTMannual. We loved meeting all of you! You can check out some of the resources we shared, and download the materials from your favorite exhibitor workshop below. TI Exhibitor Workshops at #NCTMannual 2018 Exploring What's Typical:...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...s. These are short, five to 15 minute accessible problems that allow students to practice justifying their answers first collaboratively, then individually with problem stems like “Which one does not belong?,” “Always, sometimes or never?,” and “Would you rather?,” we began to learn how to help s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...ecular forces of attraction between water, alcohol and acetone. Gas pressure sensor — The gas pressure sensor is a great tool for visualization of the Gas Laws phenomenon. Students can collect gas pressure versus volume data. This activity has pressure versus volume simulation, a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...deliver flowers from Jack’s house to Diane’s house. (Yes, “Jack & Diane” dates us a little bit, but it’s a fun song.) By the way, I love Riggins’ virtual flowers. If you want to learn more about Riggins’ activity, read to the end, and you can watch the webinar from Feb. 8, 2022, here. For ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...ms, pressure that is tapping a rapidly dwindling groundwater supply. With this in mind, and eager to learn more about the operation of our school’s aquaponic greenhouse, we leveraged the “Smart Water with TI-Innovator™” project to extend our students’ engineering skills and their appreciation of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...ssional journals to find the articles with the best advice for a challenging issue the teachers in my district were facing. I could bring the most valuable resources to the teachers I supported, saving them from the hours I spent digging through the mediocre or irrelevant ideas, and just deliver ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...ces — aka white boards on the wall) throughout the 2021–22 school year. I was convinced that these strategies were making a huge difference in the actual understanding of calculus by my students. My students were talking about mathematics and finally accepting that calculus is not memorization an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
... These sessions provided participants with new strategies and resources for using TI technology to engage students, whether learning in person or virtually. On the first conference day, John Staley, Ph.D., unpacked the D.U.E.S (see below) to guide teacher choices while teaching STEM with intent...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...d old-fashioned phone call, an email, or a walk down the hall. Your colleagues, whether at your school or on the other side of the world, can be invaluable sources of support. Keep it Positive Teaching is tough and made even tougher by the uncertainty of this school year, so try not to get cau...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
BestofChemistry
.... Periodic table, periodicity, atom, atomic structure, atomic mass, atomic weight, atomic number, protons, neutrons, electrons, balancing chemical equations, bonding, chemical bonding, ionic compounds, ionic bonding, intermolecular forces, Electron configurations BestofChemistry website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Designing Your Classroom With Purpose
...iting time for me because I can tap back into my creative brain after it’s been sitting on standby for a couple of months. Add educational visuals to complement your curriculum. As I prepare for a new year, the first thing that always pops into my mind is my classroom: the setup, t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/classroomdesign
Texas Instruments Virtual Booth | NSTA Engage 2021
Visit the Texas Instruments virtual booth with science educators to explore TI science resources and engaging content for the NSTA conference. Texas Instruments Virtual Booth | NSTA Engage 2021 global Texas Instruments Virtual Booth | NSTA Engage 2021 Visit the Texas Instruments virtual b...https://education.ti.com/en/events/nctm-atlanta
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
Every student encounters algebraic concepts in their mathematics career. As teachers, it can sometimes be hard to help students grasp concepts they find abstract in nature. Technology can help by demonstrating those concepts in a new and intriguing way. By involving dynamic visualization and int...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
Icebreakers are important parts of any learning environment — they encourage students to participate from the start of class, allow students to get to know one another, and perhaps teach you a thing or two about your class. But with many schools across the country starting virtually, getting to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers
...answer your questions live. For the spring of ’22, we are updating our schedule. The YouTube Live “Monday Night Calculus” sessions begin Monday, January 10, at 8 p.m. Eastern time, and will continue through April. Also, there’s a new twist this spring: We will be drawing for a chance to have Ko...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mondaynightcalculus