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3D Printing: Let’s Get Started!
Need some help finding a way to implement 3D Printing into your lesson?
Lauren LaFontaine
Lauren LaFontaine is a former Group Success Manager at the Institute. In this role, she provides implementation support for school groups who are leveraging the Accelerator as a tool for Arts Integration and STEAM. Lauren is a former middle school visual and computer art educator and lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts. As a mentor teacher and professional development presenter, Lauren is passionate about creativity and making art accessible for everyone. Her passions in STEAM and Arts Integration are at the root of her goal to collaborate with classroom teachers everywhere.
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Student Groups
Is It SMART? Reflecting on Goal Setting and Working SMARTER
Here's a brief refresher of what SMART goal setting mean with a reflection of how to incorporate SMART into your next school year.
Resources
The Art of Microscopy
The art of microscopy is amazing, and for a small amount of money, these hidden worlds can help students see that there is more to our environment.
Assessment
Putting the Performance in Performance Task
The book Putting the Performance in Performance Education provides tools to apply the arts to the common core education, so art education.
Educator PD
99 Essential Questions for Driving Inquiry through the Arts
Need some essential questions examples for your classroom?
Educator PD
Integrated Scope and Sequence Planner
If you're searching for a new way to plan out your lessons, try this new model called the scope and sequence planner to focus on STEAM education.
Strategies
Reignite Your Creativity; Challenge Yourself
Here, we discuss why it is important to focus on your own creativity, and provide a reading list of books to help Reigniting Your Creativity.
Strategies
So You Want to Produce a Musical? Part V
Here's the 5th installment to our story, The Jungle Book Kids for our K-5 students, as we try and explain how to properly and effectively produce a musical.
Curriculum
Categories of Color STEAM Lesson
In this color STEAM lesson, kindergarten and 1st grade students explore the qualities of color and categorize them organically.
Resources
A Visit to String Theory Schools
We provide a story of a visit to String Theory School in an effort to explain what exactly string-theory is, and its use of implementing arts.
Educator PD
Week 15: The Major and Minor of Music
Moving on to Week 15, where we discuss the fundamentals, or the majors and minors of music unit.
Educator PD
Can the Arts Bridge the STEM Gender Gap?
How can we bridge the STEM gender gap? Here, we discuss why STEM fields have been dominated by men for so long, and discuss ways to bring.
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