Tag: k-12

Great Chatbot for Kids Under 13 – CodeBreakerEdu’s Byte!

Midjourney generated image.

This AI Chatbot from Codebreaker Edu is really good! I learned about it after listening to Terry Kearnes talking with Jeff Utecht on a recent Shifting Schools podcast. I reached out on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Terry shared the Byte AI Chatbot that he uses with his elementary students so I ran it …

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Senate Committee Session on Gamification

Screenshot of the senate committee video recording during my part.

Thursday, December 1, I had the honor of being invited to present at one of our state’s Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee meetings! Thanks to my WEA workshop partner, Tammie Schrader, who introduced me to the Senate Committee chair, Senator Lisa Wellman, and recommended me to speak and share I got to speak …

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Lunar Missions and Robotics

Lunar Rover with Mindstorms EV3

This year, with students sitting closer together and able to work cooperatively in small teams, our robotics unit was able to happen again! Having 5th graders mixed in with our 6th graders allowed me to change up our usual robotics unit with one that focused on space science. Using NASA’s Artemis mission to go back …

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Our School’s March 14 Walkout

On March 14, 2018, Chimacum Middle School students gathered by the track in honor of the 17 people who died in the Parkland, FL shootings. It was amazingly well organized and students were attentive and open to listen. Not all students chose to come out. It was by choice yet most of the middle school …

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Food Miles 6th grade Blog Post

Food Miles? What is food miles, you ask? Check out this 6th grader’s summary of an awesome activity we did in class to raise student awareness of food traveling to get to your plates!

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Want to Write a Guest Blog Post on Our World Solutions Blog?

If you’ve been reading my 6th grader’s blog posts on our World Solutions blog and you’re a kid with great ideas, solutions or questions about why things are the way they are, submit a blog post to our blog and we’ll publish it for you! Just fill out the following form or click here if …

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WoW Dancing #gbl

Once in a while we take a break from questing in World of Warcraft, from questing in 3D GameLab, and from practicing our keyboarding skills and we just meet up in a big, virtual city to get together and dance. 🙂 These are some of my 1st WoWinSchools class 6th graders meeting up in Stormwind …

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iPad Friendly Sites

When my Science students blog using an iPad, ClassBlogMeister accommodates them by offering two choices for typing. One choice allows the author to format their text with word processing menus like the image below. The problem is that iPads, mobile devices, cannot type in those graphical text boxes. It sucks! But all is not lost …

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