No Bones About It
In this lesson, students will explore evolutionary relationships by comparing the anatomy of organisms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/no-bones-about-it
Needs of Living Things
In this lesson, students will describe and identify the survival needs for both plants and animals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/needs-of-living-things
Natural Selection (MG)
In this lesson, students will model natural selection, providing an opportunity to make predictions about evolution in a population over a short period of time.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/natural-selection-mg
Paradise Island
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to explore the transfer of matter and energy among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/paradise-island
Team Effort
In this lesson, students will explore the specific tissues of digestive organs that work as a team to digest food.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/team-effort
Aquatic Food Webs
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to construct a model that describes the cycling of matter and flow of energy in an ecosystem.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/aquatic-food-webs
It Takes Guts
In this lesson, students will explore organ responses that occur during a “fight or flight” nervous reaction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/it-takes-guts
Matter Conservation
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to observe the law of conservation of matter.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/matter-conservation
2019 TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...tion, health, even kitchen gadgets in your home. 2019 TI Codes Contest top-rated projects Aurora, Illinois Grand prize winner: Clever Composters Winning Team Youtube Block khybJjC9QyA Meet the finalists First runner-up:E5San Diego hpqQ7sxlFkw ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2019
2021 TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
... The seventh-annual contest is underway. Check it out! Go to 2024--> --> For contest related inquiries, please emailCodesContest@ti.com. a.button-red::after { top: 2px;} .drop-down{display:inline-block;position:relative}.drop-down__button{cursor:pointer;...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2021
2021 US TI Cods Contest P3-semifinals
...t related to health, wellness or medicine. Then use coding and Texas Instruments (TI) technology to build a model of the solution. Our fourth annual competition is underway Judging at each round will be based on the definition of the problem, the purpose of the solution, creativi...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2021/p3-semifinals
T³™ Workshops
...ll workshops to find what’s right for you Filter by topics to search for specific workshops Contact us for workshop recommendations In-depth professional learning made for teachers Teachers learn from T³™ instructors who have years of classroom exp...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/district-school-leader-resources/onsite-workshops
Find the Frequen-Z!
Practical Ways for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse to Come Teachers are continuously told how important STEM and coding will be for their students’ future career options. But how is a teacher supposed to engage students in coding and STEM, while still getting through all of the academic standard...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
The Education Technology industry has changed over the years. Despite the changes, TI calculators have become standard tools for teaching math and science – and with good reason. This also didn’t happen overnight. For the past 30 years, we have worked with teachers to ensure that every product...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
We all want students to dive into real projects that tie together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in ways that inspire them to innovate, create and problem-solve. Yet, the need to cover the required curriculum, and limits on time, resources and training, complicate the task of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Mission Imagination
NASA and TI are excited to announce the design challenge winning team. A team of five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won the mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students fro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
How to Start the Year on a Math High
As we settle into the new school year, we find ourselves in the perfect position to set the tone in our math classes. We’ve all experienced students who are hesitant learners — they come in with the mindset that they hate math or aren’t good enough to make it through the school year. If this att...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
David Olszewski, better known as Mr. O on the grounds of Perry High School in Canton, Ohio, has been teaching math for the past five years. Ask any of his students, or fellow teachers, and it’s clear he has quickly become a campus favorite. “Mr. O is a really fun teacher to have because he alway...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
Texas Instruments (TI) teamed up with NASA earlier this year to host the TI Codes Contest, where students could compete in teams to put their programming, problem-solving and creativity into practice in a space-themed challenge. We asked students to think of ways to improve a process or product...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
Cheltenham High School computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and the school’s marching band, pulled a fast one on senior drumline members Nate Norward and Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
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
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...students lack the mathematical understanding needed to solve problems and, as a result, make conceptual errors even with the help of a calculator for computations. I find it helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...about the question and what it means.” You can set a timer, or just feel the room as students think. By doing this, you allow your varied learners to come up with a response to your question on their own without the pressure of rushing to keep up with the typical blurters. But, what abou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...n 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequently neglecting self-care. In 2020 — you are hearing it here first — I want to commit to some more realistic, more attainable goals to take better care of myself. So here we go with some much-needed reminders for me (and hopef...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...26 ... There’s more pi where that came from We have plenty of Pi Day activities using your TI graphing calculator. Here are two of our favorites: Comparing Pi and Roots In this middle school math activity, students explore how the Pythagorean (or, should it be “pi-thagorean”?) Theorem and the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday