Awareness around mental health has evolved significantly over recent years. The stigma around mental health has changed dramatically between now and when I was a child, but there's still more work to be done, especially as it relates to teen mental health. Inside this post, you'll find 20 mental health awareness activities for students!
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Community action projects are student and personal learning experience favorites all times of year, but spring time is an especially great time for them for a variety of reasons.
Spring is here, the weather is warming, and students are getting antsy. The school year is wrapping up for many. Teachers want to end the year on a high note, but are also exhausted and don't know how much more they have left to give! It's testing season, graduation season, grade report season. Ah! Spring is bonkers in the world of education. So what better way to cruise through the rest of the year than with a community action project (CAP)? How do you engage students at the end of the year? Ahhhh one of life's biggest questions!
I don't know about you, but my high school students are ready to be done after spring break, and it SHOWS big time. What do I do about it? How do I engage them at the end of the year? I let them choose from some of their favorite experiential learning activities.
What are self-directed learning strategies that empower learners and promote agency? This is a popular question among educators that have an interest in self-directed learning and know the benefits, but aren’t sure about how to go about incorporating self-directed learning strategies in their classroom or homeschool.
One of the most common inquiries I get is for inquiry-based learning examples. It's widely known that inquiry-based learning is beneficial, but knowing how to use inquiry-based learning can feel like a mystery. Almost every learning experience that I facilitate with my own children and my high school students centers around inquiry-based learning, and I want to share some of those examples with you!
Are you looking for an awesome way to engage middle and high school students in Earth Day? Take a look at these Earth Day project idea driving questions. Give Earth Day an exciting and real-world twist with project-based learning!
As an experiential educator and parent, I understand the significance of introducing my students to career exploration activities and guiding them toward a logical career path, as well as ensuring they have real skills to navigate evolving career landscapes when I’m gone. Let’s talk about career exploration projects that students can apply to their real lives!
Project-based teaching in schools is taking the world by storm. Student-led project-based learning in particular could revolutionize education as we know it, instilling in learners a lifelong passion for learning and preparing them for the future.
Are you a parent, teacher or student looking for some plant project science fair ideas that are easy and engaging for everyone involved?
It doesn't have to be hard, it doesn't have to take a ton of time, and no one has to be a professional scientist or even a trained science teacher to do these experiments. Check out some of the plant project science fair ideas here to make your lives a little easier. Build a plant science experiment or a research project around the ideas offered here while still making them your own! Welcome to my experiential science blog series! This blog post marks the beginning of this series with fun end of year science activity ideas specifically around the theme of "Mad Science".
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Blog IntentTo provide innovative educational resources for educators, parents, and students, that go beyond lecture and worksheets. AuthorSara Segar, experiential life-science educator and advisor, curriculum writer, and mother of two. Categories
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