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Asking Purposeful Questions
10/7 @7am-9am HST Good questions lead students on a path of discovery, imagination, and STEM exploration. This module trains staff on how to facilitate STEM learning to help youth expand and clarify their thinking and also to develop their reasoning through the questions we ask them. Code: AC441PQ REGISTER HERE 
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ACRES: Facilitating Engineering Practices
10/8 and 10/22 @9am-11am HST Engineering has become a staple of STEM programming for youth. By participating in this module, participants gain first-hand experience with engineering by solving a design problem. Code:AC423EP REGISTER HERE |
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HAA Webinar: Engineering Mindset & Engaging Youth
10/17 @9am-10:30am Technovation empowers girls to develop social impact technology to solve real-world problems. We do this by partnering with youth organizations who use our free online curriculum and virtual platform to bring the program to their community. Leaders receive training, ongoing PD, and collaboration opportunities with global STEM champions. Partners may also apply for funding. REGISTER HERE |
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Jump Rope Math: Going to
Great Lengths Observe patterns, create a scatter graph, and analyze data to make predictions about connections between jump rope length and jumper height. Note: Each webinar will include strategies to support a positive Math Identity (e.g., role models, career connections, family connections, literacy connections). |
Night Sky Network Webinar
Join NASA's Night Sky Network Webinar with Kim Steadman to explore the Perseverance Rover and Mars explorations. The Perseverance Rover spent 3 years exploring the Jezero Crater on Mars and is now exploring the Delta and moving towards the Crater Rim. Watch Recording |
Parent Workshop: The Engineering Design Process at Home Learn about the Engineering Design Process and how this framework can help anybody approach all sorts of complex problems both within STEM and out. You will focus on the different steps of the Engineering Design Process, including iteration and developing resistance to failure in STEM. |
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Parent Workshop: Using Questions to Support your Child as a STEM Learner
You will explore how different types of questions can help develop our child’s critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities, especially in STEM areas. Support your child as a STEM learner by making small changes in your language during everyday conversations. |
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week with the IF/THEN® Collection
Explores resources in the IF/THEN® Collection to promote computer science and engineering in afterschool programs. WATCH RECORDING |
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In this webinar, we will explore three strategies for connecting to and preparing role models to work with youth. Strategies will consist of: 1-Making a Connection; 2-Talking About Your Work in Age-Appropriate Ways; 3-Using Culturally Relevant and Youth Development Practices
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ACRES Training Cohort: Facilitating Math Practices
Afterschool educators will explore and practice strategies for making math engaging and accessible. Asking purposeful questions is a prerequisite to this skill. The expectation is that you will be live and an active member of all three sessions. |
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Click2Engineering Spring Community of Practice (CoP)
CoP introduces out-of-school time educators to the basics of engineering and leading engineering activities with youth. The CoP is organized around the 10 Practices for an Engineering Mindset, and includes hands-on engineering activities to facilitate. |
Click2CS Virtual Workshop: Supporting Productive Failure
Helping youth see how failure can be productive is critical for an engineering mindset. By engaging in authentic engineering work, youth develop engineering identities and the mindset to solve problems. |