Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...tion and interactive simulations for tough-to-teach concepts. I attended every session that I could to learn more and to figure out how to bring this new tool back to my students. I attended a session, presented by my now good friend Jeff Lukens, on data collection, TI handhelds, and how they can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
Python + Math = true love! This Valentine’s Day activity had a simple beginning. My good friend, Julie Riggins, and I were asked the question, “Will you do a Valentine's Day themed webinar?” Did we have a large bank of activities to draw from? Did we have a single idea? Nope. So, of course we s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
“Involving, innovative, inspiring” — students call it like it is on the TI Codes Contest For five years we’ve hosted the TI Codes Contest, an annual engineering design challenge for students, where they design prototypes of useful products using TI technology. Each year students are pres...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...rtant for teachers in Arkansas because all eleventh graders are provided a free ACT® test, which is then used as part of our state accountability. So needless to say, we had an interested audience. While we have had the opportunity to lead many summer workshops over the years, this one was dif...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
Did you know World Water Day happens on March 22 every year, and it’s about focusing attention on the importance of water? What better chance to have your students put their coding and engineering design process to work while investigating water scarcity! The World Bank reports that 40% of th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
..., a STEM education coordinator at West Virginia State University, wanted to make sure that students had the opportunity to continue learning. She partnered with the STEM Team at Texas Instruments to offer a virtual STEM camp to middle schoolers. Bishop managed all the outreach, marketing, registr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
... at Texas Instruments. Our conversation on these calls is typically focused on the challenges that math teachers face, and what we thought or had learned about these challenges through our own careers, both prior to and since working together at TI. Although we don’t consider ourselves to be expe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Who knew math had moves?
Veteran math teacher turned first-year computer science teacher, Katie Brown, wasn’t quite sure what to expect when she learned Texas Instruments was bringing its’ new robotic car, the TI-Innovator Rover, to share with her pre-AP computer science class. But after one 50-minute class period, she ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
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
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
If you are a teacher like me, you probably always have lots of ideas. I certainly do! Thank goodness I also have a circle of friends that share my passion and help me bring those ideas full circle. Many of my ideas seem to have a common theme: Provide fun, learning, engaging, real-world experien...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
This is a back to school like no other; it is taking shape in living rooms, bedrooms and classrooms, and our already overworked and underappreciated teachers are being asked to do more than ever before. Whether finding ways to develop relationships with students they have never met, coming up ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
There probably aren’t too many people on the planet that haven’t heard of COVID-19. The viral contagion that caused a global pandemic has taught us a lot about the science and math behind viral transmission, exponential growth, and herd immunity. Unlike epidemics/pandemics in the past, COVID-1...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
BestofChemistry
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
This is the breadboard. It functions as an output platform for students to read collected data with red, blue and green LEDs. Science Olympiad, a national science/STEM competition organization, just added a new high school event called Detector Building. In the 35-year history of Science Oly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
Designing Your Classroom With Purpose
Our first borderline “normal” summer is already coming to an end, and teachers are heading back to school. Can you believe it? Just as we started to settle into vacation mode, it’s time to start thinking about another new school year. I don’t know about you, but this is an exciting time for me be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/classroomdesign
Science Activities for Heart Health Month | Texas Instruments
Science Activities for Heart Health Month It’s American Heart Month and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. What better time to explore cardiovascular health with your students? Here are several science lessons that will get your heart pumping! The first activity uses the T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/science-heart-activities
Solution 11186: TI Connectivity Cable Availability in the United States.
Solution 11186: TI Connectivity Cable Availability in the United States. Solution 11186: TI Connectivity Cable Availability in the United States. global Solution 11186: TI Connectivity Cable Availability in the United States. website ...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/data-collection-accessories/general-information/11186
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
TI’s Path to STEM Projects are a great way to get kids interested in electrical engineering. The best part: These projects were designed for teachers and students with no coding or engineering experience. Texas Instruments has offered the “Path to STEM Projects” for several years. Each of t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
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
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
In my previous blog post titled “Leveraging CAS To Explore and Teach Mathematics,” I demonstrated how to utilize CAS in the algebra I classroom. As mentioned in my algebra I post, CAS isn’t only a way to find the answers, CAS can be leveraged to explore and teach concepts in the math classroom. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Ingenuity-takes-flight
Have you heard of the “The seven minutes of terror”? Sounds a bit like a horror movie, doesn’t it? And, actually for NASA, it is almost as nail biting! Feb. 18, 2021, was an important date for NASA. After an almost seven-month journey, and a landing often called “The seven minutes of terror,”...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Get Out and #SpreadMathLove
Whether you’re ready to dive into outdoor activities or just want to dip your toes in the water, geocaching is a great, safe way to spring into this post-quarantine summer. If you’re not familiar with geocaching, it’s essentially the world’s largest, constantly running treasure hunt. To play,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/geocaching
5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
It’s here. Exam week. We’ve all been there — you’ve studied hard all year, put in the time, but sometimes it doesn’t feel like enough. Especially when you’re studying for multiple exams at one time, how do you keep yourself healthy and calm? Vanessa Vakharia, known as The Math Guru, has been i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week