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Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away, Stanford University astrophysicist Dan Wilkins noticed an intriguing pattern. He observed a series of bright flares of X-rays - exciting, but not unprecedented - and then, the telescopes recorded something unexpected: additional flashes of X-rays that were smaller, later and of different "colors" than the bright flares.

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Digital Badges offer a new way to display industry-recognized, employment focused credentials that validate core employability and technical skills for all Industries. CCCS' digital badges are a "web-based, verifiable representation of a skill, mastery of a set of skills and/or recognition of expertise" which have been earned and documented with metadata using the 'Open Badge Standard.'

The Open Badge Standard enables the badge holder or badge viewer to verify the skills and mastery through verified organizations attaching data and evidence of skill attainment to the the badge image file, hard-coding the metadata for future access and outside review. They are graphical images representing expertise and accomplishment(s) backed by verified metadata by trusted issuers. CCCS offers more than 85 badges.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Digital Badge?

A digital badge is a digital representation of a skill, learning achievement or experience. Digital Badges can represent competencies and involvements recognized in formal or informal learning. They can support learning that happens in new ways, in new spaces beyond the traditional classroom, from online courses to training programs to work and life experience. This motivates learning and signals achievement across communities and institutions. It also provides a more complete picture of learners' skills, achievements and qualities, which can then be communicated to potential employers, educational organizations and communities.

Each digital badge is associated with an image and some metadata. The metadata provides information about what the digital badge represents and the evidence used to support it. Earners can display their Digital Badges online and can share digital badge information through social networks.

Core components of a badge include the information needed to determine its validity, authenticity, source, and value. This includes the recipient (who earned the achievement), the issuer (the individual or organization taking responsibility for issuing the badge), the badge's criteria and description (what the recipient needed to do or demonstrate to earn the badge), evidence (an authentic representation or connection to the underlying work performed or contribution made to earn the badge), a date (precisely when the badge was awarded), its expiration (when, if ever, the credential bestowed is no longer valid), and a certificate or assertion (a connection to an official form of verification vouching for the validity of the award).

What do Digital Badges do?

Digital Badges can capture a wide set of skills and achievements.

They provide concrete evidence and proof of your skills, achievements and qualities.

Digital Badges create a more complete representation of an individual's learning and experience.

Earners can group Digital Badges into collections for sharing through particular channels.

Digital Badges unlock new career and learning opportunities, potentially allowing employers and other stakeholders to better match individuals to jobs, courses and projects.

How does the CCCS digital badge hierarchy work?

Expert Badges - are issued to expertise in an area. They include a series of criteria/competencies that need to be met. Skill Badges have complex criteria and do not apply to a single achievement or event and are building blocks for Mastery badges. They can be earned individually, or grouped together to earn a Mastery badge.

Mastery Badge - involve the development of a skill within a set pathway, indicating by default, completion of all Expert Skill badges within a pathway if appropriate. The Mastery badge is earned when the entire criteria curriculum has been completed, assessed and evidence of competency is produced.

CCCS Expert Badge

Expert Skills
The expert is able to see what needs to be achieved and how to achieve it. Able to apply knowledge in different areas.

General attributes of Badge Class

Answer questions

Make more refined and subtle discriminations than proficient

Tailors an approach and method to each situation based on an elevated skill level.

CCCS Mastery Badge

Mastery Authority
The master has developed superior standards and effectiveness of knowledge. Syntiesis of knowledge and skills to critically think through problems, generate multiple solutions and evaluate solutions for appropriateness. Ability to transfer knowledge to others.

General attributes of Badge Class

Ability to evaluate effectiveness and application of knowledge

Utilizes extending expertise within a domain with their own synthesis of tools and methods.

Ability to teach or train other to become an expert.

CCCS Excellence Badge

Excellence Distinguished
Deep understanding of highly complex subjects

General attributes of Badge Class

Deep expertise, exceeding the skill level of experienced professionals

Influences and mentors others to help them make the best use of skills, knowledge, aptitude and solutions

Among the most trusted advisors, helps grow and nurture the community of like-minded individuals.

Why do we Need Digital Badges?

In today's world, learning happens anywhere and everywhere. Despite increased opportunities for learning, there's still an essential piece missing - we need formal recognition for these newly earned and hard-won competencies and skills. In general, résumés are static in that they need to be updated and re-published. Digital Badges can be more dynamic - new skills, competencies and knowledge are automatically published, and updated, after the digital badge is issued. In other words, Digital Badges can represent the same skills and experiences a résumé represents, plus a lot more, as well as generally providing a richer level of detail. Digital Badges are also discover-able in a variety of online contexts, so earners can share them in different ways.

Once earned, you can share digital badges on your resume, e-portfolio and social networks. Badges are clickable, linking through to where they are officially stored in Credly Digital Badges or Mozilla Backpack. This allows others to see the details of your competencies and verify their authenticity as credentials.

What are the benefits of Digital Badges?

Digital Badges can:

Provide a more complete picture of the learner - Digital Badges give a more detailed, granular skills and learning history; allow a more granular recognition of specific skills than a traditional degree or certificate; allow specific recognition for "soft skills," social habits, ability to collaborate and can measure and recognize skills that are valuable in many contexts but that traditional educational models do not even attempt to quantify.

Signal achievement and motivate participation - Digital Badges signal skills and achievements to peers, potential employers, educational institutions and others while providing learner feedback and milestones throughout a course or learning experience, encouraging engagement and retention.

Transfer learning across spaces and contexts - make skills more portable across jobs, learning environments and places.

Support greater specialization and innovation - move faster to support and recognize new skills than traditional degree or certificate programs.

Allow multiple pathways to learning - being open and inherently flexible, Digital Badges encourage earners to take new paths or spend more time developing specific skills.

Capture the learning path and history - Digital Badges can capture a more specific set of skills and qualities, dated as they occur along the way using issue dates. This means we can track the set of steps the most successful learners take to gain their skills - and replicate that experience for others. With Digital Badges, earners will be able to carve out their own pathways, learning more about their own skill-sets along the way.

Recognize new skills and literacies - a host of new literacies are critical to success in today's digital world (e.g. appropriating information, judging its quality, multitasking and networking) - these are not typically taught in schools and don't show up on a transcript. Digital Badges can recognize these new skills and literacies.

Open doors - Communities of Practice, Professional Associations or Specialized Groups could require obtaining a set of Digital Badges to gain access. For this reason Digital Badges are used to implement CPD (Continuing Professional Development) in certain industries.

Enhance identity and reputation - Digital Badges raise the earner's profile with the learning community and peers, giving the individual control over their online identity. The portable nature of Digital Badges also allows the earner to aggregate identities across communities.

Provide branding opportunities for institutions, organizations and learning communities - Digital Badges can be displayed in many locations throughout the Web. Increasing awareness of your institution, organization and learning community, as well as linking relevant curriculum, skills and knowledge.

Build community and social capital - Digital Badges can help earners to find peers or mentors with similar interests. Community Digital Badges help formalize camaraderie, team synthesis and communities of practice while enhancing the potential to open up learning and career pathways.

Work within various different types of system - Digital Badges are open and inter-operable, which means stakeholders in a badging system can use whatever technologies they want or need, implementing badging within existing systems and choosing freely to utilize badging in whatever way suits their own community of digital badge earners.

What kinds of skills and accomplishments can Digital Badges represent?

The diversity of skills and experiences Open Digital Badges can represent is a key aspect of their usefulness. Digital Badges can represent skills, competencies, qualities, achievements and interests, including:

"Hard skills" - e.g. completing a course, mastering a specific programming language or math concept.

"Soft skills" - e.g. critical thinking, communication or collaboration.

Community aspects - including reputation and status

New skills - such as digital literacies.

Specific, granular accomplishments or activities - for example, leaving helpful comments for other learners, logging into an online learning web site for 10 consecutive days, and so on.

Anything else - Digital Badges are open, so their potential to represent varied skills and experiences is unlimited.

How different are Digital Badges from the information provided in résumés?

In general, résumés and CVs are static in that they need to be updated and re-published. Digital Badges can be more dynamic - new skills, competencies and knowledge are automatically published, and updated, after the digital badge is issued. Digital badges with well-defined criteria can be very useful in a hiring process. A single well known or well-understood badge can represent many bullet points of requirements on a job description.

In other words, Digital Badges can represent the same skills and experiences a CV represents, plus a lot more, as well as generally providing a richer level of detail. Digital Badges are also discoverable in a variety of online contexts, so earners can share them in different ways. Because digital badges enhance traditional credentials, they are often referred to as "stackable credentials." These stackable credentials help demonstrate competencies that employers value most. As a stackable credential, a digital badge will highlight the specific competencies that employers expect and require from new hires. In this way, candidates can demonstrate that they have the perfect blend of skills needed to thrive in the workforce-not just that they passed a certificate program. These credentials also help current employees add to their qualifications by showcasing professional development that has taken place since being hired.

What form do Digital Badges take? Do I stick it on a Web page or sew it on my shirt?

A digital badge is more than just a static image - its value comes from the information or "metadata" attached to it.

This supporting data contained within the digital badge reduces the risk of abusing the system (e.g., illegitimately copying Digital Badges and putting them on your site) and builds in an implicit validation system.

The metadata may vary based on the particular skill, assessment and issuer.

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A digital badge is recognition for learning outside of the typical classroom environment. It is verified by an external entity and is skills and experience based. It incentivizes learning, measures growth, and creates pathways to careers (Reelworks, 2020). Digital badges represent achievements that can increase your employability by demonstrating the application of skills and knowledge in that area. Digital badges can be shared widely on platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, via email, or embedded in a website.

Students Will:

Make connections to people and resources while completing a project of their choice.

Earn verified and validated credentials for highly sought-after skills.

Articulate and share their skills in a way that increases their employability.

Develop their personal brand and be able to share that in a digital space.

Digital Badge Offerings

Skills Badges

The Digital Badging Program at Thomas College is designed to help increase your employability. The key to your success is to be able to articulate what you know and are able to do by using clear examples and evidence. You will have the opportunity to practice this process while earning digital badges that will help you throughout your time at Thomas and connect you to important resources. Skills badges can be earned through conversations with faculty and staff, as well as by submitting evidence to the program coordinators through the Digital Badging Canvas Site, which any student can join in by visiting this course enrollment link.
View the Directions for Earning Skills Badges
Career Ready Competency Badges

In order to increase your employability, Thomas College offers you the opportunity to earn validation for several highly-sought after skills. You can demonstrate these competencies through a wide variety of experiences AND can earn more than one badge at a time if your project satisfies all of the requirements. Each semester, those of you who earn these badges will be invited to a special celebration or "badg-u-ation." These badges also qualify as a Professional Credential of Value for the Guaranteed Job Program. Career Ready badges can be earned by submitting evidence to the program coordinators through the Digital Badging Canvas Site, which any student can join in by visiting this course enrollment link.
View the Directions for Earning Career Ready Competency Badges
Professional Development Programs

Thomas College is known for offering high-quality professional development in the key professional areas of business, innovation, and information technology. These badges can be earned by completing the professional development course and earning an 80% or higher on the final assessment.

Learn More About HAIBI Badges and CIE Badges

Specializations

For learners who want to engage in more than just a course, but less than a full degree program, the College has created a number of opportunities to earn a Specialization in a specific field. Specializations combine a variety of courses from the College's non-credit online and in-person course catalogs. Upon successful assessment of all required courses, participants will be awarded a specialization badge that memorializes their achievement.

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Note: You can view the badges you have earned by signing into Badgr.

Locate, Claim, and Share Your Badges

You might earn your digital badge by submitting evidence to the Digital Badging Canvas Site OR by having a conversation with a Thomas College faculty or staff member. After you've earned a badge, it is important to claim it and then share it! Directions for both situations can be found in the attachment below.
View the directions for claiming and sharing your digital badges
Learn More About Our Digital Badges

In these videos, current Thomas College students explain more about how the program works.

Contact

For more information about earning digital badges or partnering with Thomas College for a digital badging project, please email badges@thomas.edu.
Thomas College Digital Badging Program by Thomas College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Digital badges can be powerful symbols of achievement, skill and employability. What are digital badges? How do they
differ from, say, an image of a badge? What value do they deliver and to whom? In this information-rich Credentialate Guide you'll learn the history of digital badges, understand the technology that sits behind them and discover the benefits, challenges and opportunity digital badges present.

The Essentials: Digital badges

Digital badges are an indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest that can be displayed, accessed and verified online. Quite simply, they're visual emblems of achievement in digital format. Digital badges are earned in a variety ways, for a variety of achivement levels - 'low stakes' event participation to 'high stakes' achievements, such as successfully completing a collaborative project.

How did digital badges get started?
Their roots began in the video-game industry. Computer programmer Nick Pelling coined the term "gamification" and was the first to apply video game challenges and experience to real life processes.

Digital badges have embedded metadata that provide richer validation of qualifications. They contain shareable information about the badge issuer, receiver, criteria for issuing, issue date, expiration date, standards adhered to and evidence of achievement.

What makes digital badges valuable?
The right badges represent validated skills of the type that employers are hungry for. They're easy to produce, manage and share. Badges make hiring practices better, as they allow organisations to take a more evidence-based approach. Through gamification, badges increase learner engagement and boost participation in training and HR programs. Best of all, digital badges demonstrate superior value over traditional credentials in the granular details of achievements.

What are the challenges when using digital badges?
When formal evaluation and scoring is separated from the issuing of badges, the process becomes too arduous for educators as they scale. In some instances, badges are locked into the Learning Management System, effectively eliminating market visibility. Badge credibility suffers if the issuer is not authorative in the market. 'Bad badges' cause confusion and it can be hard for stakeholders to know which digital badges to trust.

How Credentialate provides a new perspective
Credentialate is the world's first Credential Evidence Platform. It helps you discover and share evidence of workplace skills. Credentialate is the only Credential Evidence Platform that includes personalised qualitative, quantitative and artefact evidence record verified directly from within the digital badge. For institutions, educators can map and manage their skills infrastructure and track skills attainment across the institution and against existing frameworks.

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The Full Story: What digital badges are, how they work, what they recognise and why they're valuable

Within the next decade, two thirds of all jobs will be "soft-skill" intensive. However, a quarter of entry-level employers reported difficulty hiring talent because applicants lacked precisely those skills. Those that did have them were snapped up as quickly as the potential employers could verify proof through applicants' digital badges.

Soft skills are also known as "employability skills" or "enterprise skills". More recently they became known as "power skills". These skills are transferable between industries and occupations and are vital for success in any career. Soft skills include a broad range of abilities that include communication, critical thinking, judgment, teamwork, professional ethics, self-management and collaboration to name a few.

Two years ago, they gained significant interest and momentum in talent acquisition. The majority of HR leaders reported that they were becoming increasingly invested in achievements evidenced by digital badges. They were de-emphasizing degrees and prioritizing individual skills, or their hiring strategies headed in that direction.

With our rapidly evolving technology and work practices, many degree courses and traditional credentials become obsolete that much quicker. It has become imperative for job seekers and career professionals alike to ramp up their professional development with industry-specific skills.

Employers now highly prize work-integrated learning and credentials that are industry-aligned and employer-validated. Two thirds of HR leaders have declared that credentials earned online are on equal footing with credentials that were completed in person.

These trends have sparked a rush of credentialing and validation from both employees and employers. Nearly all the skills now in demand can be earned through micro-credential courses with digital badges for proof. They offer reliable and easily verifiable evidence that candidates have both power skills and the industry-specific skills that employers now look for intently.

What's a digital badge?

Digital badges are an indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest that can be displayed, accessed and verified online. Quite simply, they're visual emblems of achievement.

Physical badges are proof of significant achievement in an organization, much like Scouts merit badges or military challenge coins. Like their physical counterparts, digital badges are powerful symbols for the achievement or membership that they claim to represent. Unlike physical badges, they're information-rich and complex enough to withstand professional scrutiny and validation.

The term "digital badge" has been used interchangeably with digital credentials or micro-credentials. This is inaccurate and has led to some confusion about what they are. It would be better to say that a digital badge is a type of digital credential.

Digital credentials are simply the digital format of a type of paper credential. Think passports, driver's licences, certificates of training completion and the like. It may prove qualification, completion, competence or clearance. The badge is often representative of a "micro-credential." Micro-credentials certify the acquisition of a specific skill or set of skills that are usually earned to enhance employability.

There is a wide range of accomplishments that can be signified by a digital badge. Some badges credit "low stakes" achievements. These can be simple membership in an organisation, participation in an event, or engaging in a challenge 100 times. Other badges credit "high stakes" achievements such as developing and demonstrating critical thinking skills, passing a difficult accreditation process, or successfully completing a collaborative project.

Digital badges have enjoyed a great deal of recognition and popularity and for good reason. At their core, collecting and earning badges satisfies human needs for achievement, recognition and respect. It is important to note that all badges have a place in recognition of skills, so long as the intent behind the badge is transparent and that there is evidence (preferably personalised evidence) attached.

How did digital badges get started?

From professional and learning perspectives, the increased use of digital badges matched the rise of micro-credentials. Badges are shareable, easily verifiable proof of industry-specific skills. They're sought by employees, employers, jobseekers and higher education institutions alike. But when did they start getting so popular?

Their roots lie with the first veterans of the video-game industry. In 2002, computer programmer Nick Pelling coined the term "gamification" while advocating the power of game mechanics in non-game scenarios. Pelling had two decades of computer game design under his belt. He was adamant that applying video game challenges and experience to real life processes could increase consumer engagement.

Foursquare was an early adopter of gamification. It was a search-and-discovery app that rewarded users for mapping locations in various cities. Users would rate restaurants and other places of interest. They would compete with others in a similar location and unlock digital badges. Huffington Post and others soon caught on to the badging system and adopted it too.

In 2005, Microsoft would establish the first implementation of an achievement system for its Xbox 360 console games. This began a five-year drive across industries to apply gamification and adopt the badges as marks of achievement. Unfortunately, many of these badges lacked transferability outside their issuer's domain. This meant one could only copy and paste badge pictures, which didn't promote much trust or verifiability.

The Mozilla Foundation would address this issue in 2011 with the release of its Open Badge System Framework. They acknowledged the significant impact that badges had on learning, achievement and community. Mozilla developed an open technical standard for issuing, collecting and displaying badges on multiple instructional sites. The following year, more than 1,400 companies joined the Open Badge system. It thrives to this day.

How do badges work?

Over 3,000 credentialing organisations have sprung up in the ten years since Mozilla established the first standards. Those organisations offer competing standards and digital credentials that are predominantly earned in a learning environment. The criteria and rubrics for them are determined by accredited instructors, higher learning institutions, national associations and credentialing bodies.

Digital badges are earned in various ways now. They prove competency in intermediate learning such as programming, cloud computing or project management. They recognise the development of specific, job-related skills during an internship. Badges can simply acknowledge membership in an exclusive group of individual's common competencies or talents, like a football team or chess club. They also certify professional accomplishments over a period or as specified by the issuing body.

Currently, the most useful of these certifications is micro-credentialing. Digital badging is excellent for achieving new skills outside a degree course or for validating existing ones. It gives learners the edge in a competitive job market. They also give employers a plethora of options for attracting talent and developing it. Badges are visual emblems of certification like diplomas, but they offer more than proof of certification.

Paper diplomas are static credentials that rely on the brand of the issuing organisation to back up the stated qualifications. In this decade's rapidly evolving technologies and jobs, they can quickly become obsolete. Degrees, certifications and skills can lose relevance because they aren't adaptable to change.

Digital badges have embedded metadata that provide richer validation of qualifications. They contain shareable information about the badge issuer, receiver, criteria for issuing, issue date, expiration date, standards adhered to and evidence of achievement. They can even tell you whether the badge has been revoked and why. Overall, badges provide remarkable, timely, validated, dynamic evidence of the badge recipient's claims of achievement.

What makes digital badges valuable?

The right badges represent validated skills of the type that employers are hungry for. They certify micro-credentials that build power skills and industry-specific skills that employers want. They're easy to produce, manage and share. That makes them attractive to both the person seeking employment and the employer who's looking for trusted, verifiable, digital proof.

Badges make hiring practices better. They allow companies to scale the hiring process, reduce unnecessary tests and take a more evidence-based approach to screening. This enables employers to fine-tune hiring practices predicting fit and performance that a traditional diploma can't surface.

From an educational and training perspective, badges can add much value to the learning process. Through gamification, badges increase learner engagement. They're used as rewards for learning achievement and recognition for completing arduous, sometimes unpalatable tasks. Organisations rely on badges to boost participation in training and HR programs. They also use them to encourage collaboration.

Passing different levels of assessments can earn badges. This is common with MOOCs as a way to show various "levels" of mastery that were gained over time. Badges are also used to recognise quality, indicate trust, or represent awards. Employers also consider these achievements and seek them out, making evidence of them more valuable.

Best of all, digital badges demonstrate superior value over traditional credentials in the granular details of surfaced achievements. They provide a more modular and flexible way of showing combination competencies and various levels of mastery.

What are the challenges when using digital badges?

The work of Credential Engine is making significant progress in addressing this challenge with their credential marketplace and the development of their Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL).

In education, faculty and administrative staff often set up manual processes to collect badge evidence. Then the formal evaluation and scoring of that evidence becomes a separate process from badge issuance. Educators quickly give up on badging initiatives because this process becomes enormously time-consuming on a large scale. The solution is to integrate the assessment management with the badging. Automating this process would streamline the collection, rubric-based scoring and credential issuance.

In some higher education institutions, badges are locked into that institution's LMS. They can't be shared outside the LMS, which defeats the purpose of micro-credentialing. There's no tangible value to digital badges if they can't be shared across online platforms and social media. Alternatively, the badges are stored in a separate silo where they can't cross-link with portfolio projects, resumes, LinkedIn profiles and the like. Employers will search for skills and keywords inside resume databases. If the badge doesn't interact with those, then it did nothing useful for the learner's career goals.

Badge credibility suffers if the issuer does not have direct industry expertise or is not tied to industry bodies or associations. A digital badging program should align itself directly with industry standards, best practices and frameworks. Collaboration or direct ties with the relevant institutions increases the value of the digital badge significantly.

How Credentialate provides a new perspective

Credentialate is a secure, configurable platform that assesses and tracks attainment of competencies and issues micro-credentials to students backed by personalised evidence at scale. By automatically extracting data from existing platforms and using an organisation's own assessment rubrics, we can objectively measure awarding criteria and validate its evidence.

By this same method we can automate the assessment, monitoring, promotion and validation of evidence-backed skills. For an institution, we provide the data and insights required to track skills and competencies across courses and entire programs.

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CHAMPAIGN, lll. - Good news for control freaks! New research confirms that having some authority over how one takes in new information significantly enhances one's ability to remember it. The study, in the journal Nature Neuroscience, also offers a first look at the network of brain structures that contribute to this phenomenon.

Graphic by Diana Yates. Brain by Andrew Giglio.

"Having active control over a learning situation is very powerful and we're beginning to understand why," said University of Illinois psychology and Beckman Institute professor Neal Cohen, who led the study with postdoctoral researcher Joel Voss. "Whole swaths of the brain not only turn on, but also get functionally connected when you're actively exploring the world."

The study focused on activity in several brain regions, including the hippocampus, located in the brain's medial temporal lobes, near the ears. Researchers have known for decades that the hippocampus is vital to memory, in part because those who lose hippocampal function as a result of illness or injury also lose their ability to fully form and retain new memories.

But the hippocampus doesn't act alone. Robust neural connections tie it to other important brain structures, and traffic on these data highways flows in both directions. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, which track blood flow in the brain, show that the hippocampus is functionally connected to several brain networks - distinct regions of the brain that work in tandem to accomplish critical tasks.

To better understand how these brain regions influence active versus passive learning, Voss designed an experiment that required participants to memorize an array of objects and their exact locations in a grid on a computer monitor. A gray screen with a window in it revealed only one object at a time.

The "active" study subjects used a computer mouse to guide the window to view the objects.

"They could inspect whatever they wanted, however they wanted, in whatever order for however much time they wanted, and they were just told to memorize everything on the screen," Voss said. The "passive" learners viewed a replay of the window movements recorded in a previous trial by an active subject.

Then participants were asked to select the items they had seen and place them in their correct positions on the screen. After a trial, the active and passive subjects switched roles and repeated the task with a new array of objects.

The study found significant differences in brain activity in the active and passive learners. Those who had active control over the viewing window were significantly better than their peers at identifying the original objects and their locations, the researchers found. Further experiments, in which the passive subjects used a mouse that moved but did not control the viewing window, established that this effect was independent of the act of moving the mouse.

To identify the brain mechanisms that enhanced learning in the active subjects, the researchers repeated the trials, this time testing individuals who had amnesia - a disease characterized by impairment in learning new information - as a result of hippocampal damage. To the surprise of the researchers, these participants failed to benefit from actively controlling the viewing window.

"These data suggest that the hippocampus has a role not just in the formation of new memory but possibly also in the beneficial effects of volitional control on memory," the researchers wrote.

Brain imaging (by means of fMRI) of healthy young subjects engaged in the same active and passive learning tests revealed that hippocampal activity was highest in the active subjects' brains during these tests. Several other brain structures were also more engaged when the subject controlled the viewing window, and activity in these brain regions was more synchronized with that of the hippocampus than in the passive trials.

Activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the cerebellum and the hippocampus (see cartoon) was higher, and more highly coordinated, in participants who did well on spatial recall, the researchers found. Increased activity in the inferior parietal lobe, the parahippocampal cortex and the hippocampus (see cartoon) corresponded to better performance on item recognition.

"Lo and behold," Cohen said, "our friend the hippocampus makes a very conspicuous appearance in active learning."

The new findings challenge previous ideas about the role of the hippocampus in learning, Voss said. It is a surprise, he said, that other brain regions that are known to be involved in planning and strategizing, for instance, "can't do very much unless they can interact with the hippocampus."

Rather than being a passive player in learning, the hippocampus "is more like an integral part of an airplane guidance system," Voss said. "You have all this velocity information, you have a destination target and every millisecond it's taking in information about where you're headed, comparing it to where you need to go, and correcting and updating it."

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These STEM activities for kindergarten are the perfect way to introduce STEM to the youngest learners!

Children in kindergarten have a natural and innate curiosity about the world they live in, which makes it the perfect time to try kindergarten STEM activities!

If you've checked out any of our STEM activities for kids before, you'll know that STEM projects integrate learning across the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

STEAM activities for kindergarten allow young children to investigate and explore, learning in an active, hands-on way that makes the child an active participant in their own learning.

And for those who know a kindergarten-aged child, there is no doubt thatthey learn best when they are active and engaged!

Today, I've collected over 50 great STEM activities for kindergarten children aged around 5-6 years (though many of them are fun for older kids too).

For convenience, the list is divided into the four main STEM categories however these activities all integrate learning across two or more of the four subject areas - plus they're simply lots of fun!

50 of the Best Kindergarten STEM Challenges

Kids will have a blast learning with these science experiments and stem activities!

What is STEAM for Kindergarten?

STEM is not so much a topical study as it is an approach to teaching and learning the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

Kindergarten STEM projects use all of these subjects together to solve real-world problems.

A STEM activity uses elements of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math to solve problems. All STEM activities are inquiry-based, which means they are designed to answer a question (often a question the child creates herself).

STEM activities encourage children to see subjects like math and science in a new light, and how to use those subjects to solve their day to day problems and the problems that they might face as adults.

All STEM activities should contain elements of at least two disciplines in STEM, and all of them when possible!

As critical thinking and creative thinking become more and more important, STEM activities provide a safe and fun way for children to explore the concepts of science, math, engineering, and technology in a kid-friendly and fun way.

Even if a child never goes into a STEM field as an adult, engaging in STEM activities will encourage problem-solving, logical thinking, and creativity in any industry.

At the pre-elementary and elementary level, STEM is about exploring STEM subjects in a fun and hands-on way.

We're passionate about STEM activities and have tried hundreds of projects over the years. Use this resource as a simple way to get started with your own STEM challenges for kindergarten.

What is the benefit of a STEM curriculum for kindergarten?

Many schools require some form of STEM education in the classroom. But you don't have to be a teacher to do STEM activities with kids. You can also try some at home, during school holidays or over the summer.

Not only do STEM activities help children learn how to solve problems on their own, but it also allows hands-on kiddos to learn in a way that makes sense to them.

Children who need to touch and feel to learn effectively will thrive in a STEM-focused classroom or home.

Start when kids are young, and they will have a love of science and exploration that will last throughout life!

What Should I Include in a Kindergarten STEM Project?

There is a whole article on how to set up a science center in your home, and how to set up a STEM lab in the classroom.

But, if you're not ready to set up a completely dedicated space, you will find this list of science abd STEM resources helpful.

These STEM products are perfect for the primary STEM classroom!
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The Complete List of STEM Ideas for Kindergaten

Try these fun STEM activities with kids in kindergarten. They will love these fun hands-on ways to learn through science! Kindergarten STEM activities have never been so fun before.

Seasonal Kindergarten STEM Activities

All of these kindergarten STEM projects have a seasonal twist!

Try these Valentine's Day STEM Activities for Kindergarten and learn science about the heart, hot chocolate, and candy!

Kids will have fun with these Kindergarten Easter Activities with a STEM Twist!

These Halloween STEM Activities for Kindergarten are fun, not spooky!

In November, don't miss these Thanksgiving STEM activities for kindergarten!

Find our favorite Christmas STEM activities for kindergarten here!

These winter STEM activities for kindergarten are so much fun to try in the winter months! You can also try these winter science experiments for kindergarten.

Kindergarten kids will like these winter sensory activities, too!

Low-Prep Kindergarten STEM Activities

Your STEM activities will take very little prep if you pull from this list! You can find more no-prep science experiments here.

Learn about the parts of a flower with Flower Dissection.

Make your own Walking Rainbow and learn about color mixing!

Create some instant ice and learn about how ice forms!

Learn how to turn a penny green in this classic science experiment!

Make a tornado in a jar to learn about the weather.

Kindergarten kids will love doing this butterfly life cycle science activity!

Kindergarten Science Experiments

Here are the NGSS lesson plans for kindergarten that we use when designing our projects.

During the winter, try these winter science experiments for kindergarten!

Kindergarten kids will get a kick out of the hand washing science experiment.

Try these rainbow science experiments with your kindergarten students.

And here are some super fun science experiments with food coloring!

Here are simple science experiments in a jar that are all perfect for kids 5-6.

Kindergarten Technology Activities

Technology can be used even by the youngest learners!

Create a Painting Brush Bot and explore how technology and art can work together.

Building with Blocks & Technology is a fun way to bring technology into classic play!

Go on a Rainbow Photo Hunt !

Make Your Own Scanner Drawing Prompts

Coding a Lego Maze is a fun way to explore coding with hands-on activities.

It's not too early to learn about light refraction in kindergarten! This light refraction experiment shows you how.

Kindergarten Engineering Activities

Learn the basics of engineering in kindergarten with these engineering activity ideas.

Build a Lego Rainbow and learn about colors!

Build a Winch and explore how tools can help make things easier.

Kindergarten kids will love this Button Stack Challenge

Try your hand at this DIY Magnetic Marble Run

Gumdrop Bridge Building is super fun for kindergarten kids.

Kindergarten Math Challenges

Try your hand at learning with these fun math activities for kindergarten.

These Counting Bears Math Challenge Cards are perfect for kindergarten kids!

Kindergarten kids will love to learn How Long Are Your Small Intestines?

Try creating shapes with this Flexible Straw Shape Building challenge!

Patterning with Flowers is a fun way to learn about patterns!

Try these cookie play dough counting mats!

Explore patterns by making pattern hearts!

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These are free downloadable for extra worksheets from our free STEM ebook. Along with all our STEM downloadable worksheets.

If you happen to stumble upon this without hearing of the 25 STEM Activities book, feel free to download that as well.

This is a 50-page book dedicated to STEM activities you can do at home. Everything you'll need to complete these activities you probably have at home already, if not, I list out every item so you can find them easily at a supermarket or online.

Here is where you can download all the worksheets from the eBook so you don't have to download them individually. Most of these worksheets are already included in the PDF, but some additional resources are here as well, (such as the Lego Landmarks).

Scavenger Hunt.

Microscope Observations.

Engineering Design Process.

Flash Card Lego Landmarks. Theirs a few of these in the 25 STEM Activities eBook, but I included a few more in this PDF.

Target Toss. Also, included is an example of a game my kids played.

Scientific Method Worksheet.

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Kindergartners are very curious, and if you have a child that age, you must hear several questions a day about how things work and why they are the way they are.

It's important to appreciate and encourage this curiosity and creativity so they can grow up to understand the world and even get academic success later on.

And for this purpose, introducing STEM education this early might be the best way to go. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.

Teaching kids these skills will give them a great critical thinking foundation and help them get a headstart on their future learning.

We have the complete guide for some of the best STEM activities you can do with your children or students and if you want to learn more about them, keep on reading!

Great STEM Activities for Kindergarten

Getting your kids involved in activities and hands-on projects are the best way to introduce STEM education at an early age. It's a fun and creative learning experience they will look forward to. Here's a list of some great STEM activities your child will enjoy and learn a lot from:

What Supplies Are Needed for These Activities?

The supplies you will need for each activity will depend upon the activity, and not all activities can be performed using the same stuff.

It's helpful to look into what you need and prepare beforehand, and don't be discouraged if you find that some activities require too many things that you cannot find.

There are several STEM activities you can perform with things you already have at home. Let's take a look at some supplies you will need if you plan on performing STEM activities:

Markers

This is certainly a staple, and most of you will already have markers at your place. Markers are mostly required to mark and label things and are essential for nearly all STEM activities.

Mason Jars

Our list has some activities you can perform with mason jars, and there are many more out there that require one, too. They can be easily handled by children and are usually present at home.

Paper and Glue

Different activities require different types of paper. Where some may require regular paper sheets for labeling or drawing, others may require cardboard paper, colored papers, etc.

Glue is another essential for several projects and activities.

Food Coloring

Food coloring is a big part of several science-related STEM activities and projects. It is safe to use for children, easily available, and a commonly-used material.

Conclusion

STEM education is all the talk right now and for the right reasons, too. STEM integrates interdisciplinary learning and enables you to innovatively deal with a young mind's innate curiosity and creativity.

Parents and teachers are always on the lookout for good STEM activities, which is why we made a list of some of the best.

This article provides you a complete guide to STEM activities focused on kindergarteners. Hopefully, you got all the information you came here looking for.

People Also Ask

STEM education is all the buzz now, and parents and teachers have a lot of questions when it comes to it. We took your most frequently asked questions and answered them, so any doubt or misconception you have is cleared.

What is STEM? What Does STEM Stand For?

STEM is an acronym that stands for the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

The idea behind STEM education is to have a curriculum that educates young minds in these four fields.

However, instead of teaching them as individual subjects, it focuses on an interdisciplinary approach that creates a cohesive learning model to prepare for the upcoming world.

Why is STEM Important?

STEM education encourages curiosity and creates critical thinkers. Plus, it actively plays a huge role in increasing science literacy in the country to pave the way for a generation of pioneers and innovators.

In the future, more and more jobs will require an understanding of STEM, which is why it is important to incorporate it into curriculums.

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The Global STEM Toolkit: Teaching the Next Generation of Problem Solvers is a compilation of resources for STEM center implementers, educators, and mentors to successfully teach and run STEM organizations around the world. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is a multi-disciplinary approach to education where young people tackle real-world challenges. This toolkit, developed by World Learning staff and consultants through a generous grant from Cisco Systems, is a how-to guide for anyone interested in organizing or working at a STEM education organization in their community. No matter where you live or who you teach, this toolkit is for you!

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This lesson is a hands-on introduction to engineering and robotics. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the content by completing at least 75% of the robot they chose. It will take around two hours to complete and is recommended for ages 11 and up.

Content Areas:

Robot Development

Robot Programming

Lego Design

Objectives:

Learn what a robot is and how it functions

Learn about the use of robot

Follow instructions on technology

Materials:

4 Kits of LEGO Mindstorms EV3

5 Computers

HDMI Cable/TV or Monitor

Whiteboard/Flipchart

Pens

Introduction (10 minutes):

Teacher and students introduce themselves while sitting in a circle

Small Energizer - Counting Game:

The students create a circle and count down from 7 to 1 while taking a certain body posture

Every time students get to number one they change their body posture

Teacher asks students to either write or draw the answers for the following questions on a whiteboard:

What do you know about robotics?

What would you like to learn about robotics?

Watch a video about Lego Robotics

Main Activity (100 minutes):

Guided Practice

Students get divided into small groups (2 to 4 children)
Optimally each group includes an experienced student

Students receive computers and follow instructions

The following steps are presented on the monitor:

Open Mindstorms

Open LDD on MS EV3

Choose a robot tutorial (tracker)

The children receive different objects, which can be found in the virtual world (they can feel the object in their hand and at the same time try to find the objects in the virtual world)

Activities like searching, dragging, combining, and deleting pieces are demonstrated

Teacher navigates as a facilitator and key expert

A new activity will be illustrated as soon as students are finished with the first task

Free Activity

Motors and sensors are presented by the teacher
What do you think these pieces are?

Each group chooses one out of five basic robots that Mindstorms EV3 offers and starts building them

Once they finish the task, students get the opportunity to decide between building or programming (new groups can be created)

Building: Students brainstorm for ideas and design their robot in a second step
Example: mini fan with 4 wings and a touch sensor

Programming: Teacher helps adjust robot's programming for new features

Closing (10 minutes):

Students reflect on their learning by writing or drawing on a flipchart or board.

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Incorporating science, technology, engineering, and math activities into our kindergarten curriculum may seem like a challenge. However, with a few creative kid-approved activities, you and your students will be eager to incorporate STEM activities into your everyday learning. Kindergarten STEM activities give you the perfect opportunity to have your students practice their fine motor skills, critical thinking strategies, and collaboration skills. Here are a few super fun activities to get you started on your kindergarten STEM journey.

What is STEM?

STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. STEM projects require students to use skills from all of these areas to solve problems and complete tasks. Exposing students to STEM activities helps them to build essential 21st-century skills.

In addition to the academic skills in these areas, here's just a few of the other important life skills students will work on with STEM activities:

Creativity

Communication

Problem Solving

Critical Analysis

Collaboration

Inquiry

Skills, Skills and More Skills

Even our youngest students can build these important skills. By adding STEM into the primary classroom, these thinking and problem solving skills become a natural part of the learning process.

In addition to these amazing thinking skills, STEM activities provide young students with opportunities to develop fine motor skills too. STEM activities lend themselves to being more hands-on than other classroom activities. Many STEM activities include building, cutting and small object manipulation. And . . . while the focus might be on science, technology, engineering and math, there are also elements of reading and writing that are an important part of STEM activities. I don't know about you, but when an activity can do all of that, I want it to be part of my classroom.

Connecting to the Standards

If you struggle with trying to fit it all in - I get it! What made a big difference for me was breaking down all the standards and skills that a specific STEM activity would work on. When you see it broken down in this way it is really easy to add it into your lesson plans knowing that it is a lot more than just a fun activity for the kids.

Start Out Simple

Like most activities, you can find a range of STEM activities that can go from fairly simple to quite complicated. Just like you would with any new skill or concept you teach, start simple and gradually build. This gives you time to introduce students to STEM related vocabulary and processes. If you've never done STEM activities in your classroom before, the thought of jumping into STEM can seem overwhelming. Trust me when I say it doesn't have to be!

STEM and Play

I actually love using STEM with young students because I find that there is a natural connection to play. When children play, they naturally pull from all skills they know. They get an idea and they problem solve and "figure it out." They often plan and collaborate with friends to meet a common goal in their play activity.

STEM activities just build on this and begin incorporating new skills and thinking abilities. And . . . while we teach kids to apply what they have learned by using STEM activities, there's also a lot of learning that happens through these activities too!

Introduce and Get Out of the Way

STEM activities are a little different than teaching a new reading or math concept. When I teach an academic skill I always model the activity we are learning. I show students what I'm doing and thinking in order to teach them how to do the same.

However, in STEM activities I try to avoid modeling the activity. After all, getting students to develop those thinking and problem solving skills is one of the goals. Instead, I focus on explaining the STEM process and providing some helpful guidelines for collaboration.

I have learned that our most successful STEM activities are the ones where I introduce the activity and get out of the way. This opens the doors for students to do the discovery and not just copy what they saw me do. It's not our natural tendency as teachers - but it is just want our kids need in order to get the most out of STEM.

Planning and Preparing

It takes a little planning to incorporate STEM activities into your classroom routine. Unlike the core academic subjects, STEM activities often use supplies that aren't always found in the classroom. While most are very common at home, it can be difficult to pull together a spur of the moment STEM activity.

Involve Parents

I have had great success asking parents for help with providing the supplies we need for our STEM activities. Each month as I plan out STEM activities, I send home a note to parents asking for donations. Over the years I've learned that parents want to help and be involved, they don't just always know how. By providing a detailed list of exactly what we need, they are eager and excited to be able to help.

I like to provide a deadline about a week before the STEM activity. This gives me plenty of time to follow-up with any parents who might be late sending supplies in. It also gives me time to get to the store to purchase any remaining supplies we will need.

Kindergarten STEM Activities For Any Day

STEM projects can be incorporated into your everyday classroom routine, or used in conjunction with a specific unit of study. I actually love to do both in my classroom. Sometimes a STEM activity fits right in with what we are studying and other times they don't.

I've done a SUPER STEM DAY where we spend the entire day rotating through STEM activities. (Hint: This is a great time to ask for parent help too!) And other times we do a single STEM activity that may or may not have anything to do with the month, season, holiday or academic concepts we are learning.

There's no right or wrong time to use STEM activities. The key to making them successful is to make them fit you and your unique classroom.

Full STEM Ahead!

I hope you are so excited to try out some STEM activities with your kiddos! I can't get you pumped up about STEM and then just leave you hanging. So I have pulled together our class favorite kindergarten STEM activities that we use throughout the year.

I've even put them together based on the time of year I use them in my classroom.

Inside each STEM pack is everything you need to implement these engaging activities (except for the supplies). I've even included a note you can send to parents with a list of supplies all ready for you.

Each STEM activity includes detailed teacher instructions along with pictures to give you an idea of what the project should look like. I also share all my tips, tricks, and lesson ideas to make sure your STEM challenges are a success. Then just to make it easy, I have prepared some coordinating worksheets for each activity. These worksheets provide a place for students to make a hypothesis, plan activities, record observations, and more.

Kindergarten STEM challenges are always a huge hit in my classroom. While the students think they are fun, I know they are so.much.more! I can't imagine going back to a time when I didn't incorporate STEM challenges into my curriculum.

Save these Kindergarten STEM Activities and Ideas

There's no better time to start STEM than today! But I get it if you aren't quite ready. Pin this to your favorite classroom Pinterest board so you can quickly come back for these kindergarten STEM activities and teaching tips.

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Проект „Компас" по програма ЕРАЗЪМ+ Спорт на Европейската комисия е с координатор Българска федерация по ориентиране и обхваща 10 училища от пет европейски държави: Австрия, Северна Македония, Румъния, Естония и България. Предвижда се създаването на креативен образователен модел чрез разработването на Ръководство за извънкласна учебна Програма на открито, която се използва като продължение на часовете по физическо възпитание, биология и география чрез спорта ориентиране.

Програмата стартира през лятото на миналата година и въпреки сложната здравна обстановка вече придобива завършен вид. През октомври премина първата фаза определяща най-добрите европейски практики на обучение, които залагат на връзката между елитните спортисти и училището. След това екипът, разработващ приложението премина първи тестове по време на Университетския шампионат на Виена, началните показатели бяха силно обнадеждаващи. Подобни тестове се състояха през ноември по време на Държавното първенство на Румъния. Участниците дискутираха ползите и начина на приложение, отговорено бе на много въпроси. Целта бе да се събере пълна информация от възможно най-голям кръг ползватели за работата на приложението в различни условия. Много се разчита на обратната връзка със свалилите апликацията, събират се повече мнения и препоръки.

След презентациите в отделните държави, сега в ход е тестови период, който проверява възможностите на приложението и прецизира неговата функционалност. Следващата последна фаза в проекта е планираната за средата на май онлайн среща с домакин Северна Македония, на която ще се реши по какъв начин ще стартират експериментите в училищата. Те ще бъдат в две направления: за класове, които са включени в проекта и за по-мащабни образователни групи.

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интерактивен

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сензорни екрани

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потребителски интерфейс

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SimOn :: Видео галерия. Гледайте образователни видеа за използването на ИТ в музеите и галериите

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Събрани на едно място видеа от които ще научите какво е добавена реалност (AR) и как се използва. Как информационните технологии могат да направят музеите по-интерсни и интерактивни.

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Use WorldCat tools

Keep library resources close at hand from your browser or personalized Web page. Add the world's libraries to your mobile and FB apps.

Get citations of library materials in five common styles, and export them to a variety of formats including EndNote, Reference Manager and RefWorks.

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WorldCat.org: The World's Largest Library Catalog

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Keep library resources close at hand from your browser or personalized Web page. Add the world's libraries to your mobile and FB apps. Get citations of library materials in five common styles, and export them to a variety of formats including EndNote, Reference Manager and RefWorks.

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Stellarium Web is a planetarium running in your web browser. It shows a realistic star map, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Моята българска история

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Тук може да споделиш твоята история - със спомени, случки, факти, снимки, аудио записи за далечното и близко минало.

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ICE-EM Textbooks

The ICE-EM Mathematics series develops a clear understanding of mathematical ideas and concepts for students with a range of abilities, needs and levels of interest.

The textbooks have been developed to provide a coherent and solid development of mathematics ideas to support the transition from Primary to Secondary school.

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The ICE-EM Mathematics series develops a clear understanding of mathematical ideas and concepts for students with a range of abilities, needs and levels of interest. The textbooks have been developed to provide a coherent and solid development of mathematics ideas to support the transition from Primary to Secondary school.

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A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the micro:bit powered by Microsoft MakeCode.

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One-stop coding platform tailored to coding education, trusted by 20 million educators, and learners

Share your coding projects and get to meet coders from around the world

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Join Makeblock STEAM on Board project and get free education resources

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Rich resources for teaching coding including textbooks, curriculum, lesson plans etc.

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Easily upload and manage homework with built-in intergration Google Classroom

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Use mBlock across different devices.
(Supports Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook, iOS, Android)

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mBlock - One-Stop Coding Platform for Teaching and Learning

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Makeblock's coding platform for beginners. Scratch 3.0 based. Supports coding for robots like Makeblock, Arduino with blocks or Python, learning AI & IoT

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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UNESCO: Shaping the Future of AI Education

From September 4 to 7, 2023, three members of the App Inventor community-Dr. Natalie Lao, Pedro Philippi Araújo, and Daeun Yoo-were invited to share their expertise on AI education at the inaugural UNESCO Digital Learning Week in Paris, France. A reboot of UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week, Digital Learning Week is touted as the "new annual flagship event on digital learning and the transformation of education."

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UNESCO: Shaping the Future of AI Education From September 4 to 7, 2023, three members of the App Inventor community-Dr. Natalie Lao, Pedro Philippi Araújo, and Daeun Yoo-were invited to share their expertise on AI education at the inaugural UNESCO Digital Learning Week in Paris, France.

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iPiccy has many powerful and easy to use photo editing tools right in your browser. Auto adjust photos in one click, crop, rotate and resize images in no time. Over 100+ photo effects and PRO-level photo enhancements, facial retouching and frames. This is definitely the best place for your pictures!

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Fix your photos in one click, crop, rotate, apply tons of stunning photo effects, add text and overlays and much more! It's absolutely Free and Fun to use!

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Welcome to RevolverMaps | RevolverMaps - Free 3D Visitor Maps

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RevolverMaps: Interactive 3D Visitor Globes

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Urho3D is a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine implemented in C++ and released under the MIT license. Greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D.

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Innovate, Create, Play, Repeat

Panda3D is an open-source, completely free-to-use engine for realtime 3D games, visualizations, simulations, experiments - you name it! Its rich feature set readily tailors to your specific workflow and development needs.

Unparalleled Power and Flexibility

Panda3D puts you at the helm, without getting in your way. The full power of the graphics card is exposed through an easy-to-use API. Panda3D combines the speed of C++ with the ease of use of Python to give you a fast rate of development without sacrificing on performance.

As Free as Can Be

Panda3D is completely free to use with no royalties, license payments, registration or costs of any sort-even for commercial use. The source code is available for anyone to study and to modify under the terms of the permissive BSD license.

Multiplatform

Panda3D is a cross-platform engine that prides itself on its broad support for old and new hardware alike. The included deployment tools make deploying your app on all supported platforms a snap.

Get to Know Panda3D

Not on board yet? Here are a few options to help you get acquainted with the engine. With our extensive documentation, project showcase, and passionate community - we have everything you need to get ahead of the learning curve and start creating content with Panda3D.

Batteries Included

Panda3D "just works." We provide a no-hassle installer with no external dependencies - just grab the SDK installer and get started! Panda3D takes away the pain of compiling and deploying, leaving you with nothing to do but to develop your application.

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Panda3D | Open Source Framework for 3D Rendering & Games

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Panda3D is an open-source, completely free-to-use engine for realtime 3D games, visualizations, simulations, experiments - you name it! Its rich feature set readily tailors to your specific workflow and development needs. Panda3D puts you at the helm, without getting in your way. The full power of the graphics card is exposed through an easy-to-use API.

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Free and Open Source

Blender is a public project hosted on blender.org, licensed as GNU GPL, owned by its contributors.

For that reason Blender is Free and Open Source software, forever. Learn more

Part of the industry

Blender is a member of ASWF, Khronos, Linux Foundation and OIN. It's also well supported by major hardware vendors such as AMD, Apple, Intel, and NVIDIA.

It's about people.

Designers, developers, engineers, artists. All driven by passion. All using Blender to make an impact.

The Ecosystem

Countless communities and thriving businesses are built around Blender.

Together, these tutorial makers and content creators, add-on developers and global marketplaces form an ever-expanding ecosystem.
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Everything You Need

Cycles is Blender's built-in powerful unbiased path-tracer engine that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering.

· Real-time viewport preview

· CPU & GPU rendering

· PBR shaders & HDR lighting support

· VR rendering support

Blender's comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze.

· Full N-Gon support

· Edge slide, inset, grid and bridge fill, and more

· Advanced sculpting tools and brushes

· Multi-resolution and Dynamic subdivision

· 3D painting with textured brushes and masking

· Python scripting for custom tools and add-ons

VFX professionals say: "Probably the best tracker in the market". Blender includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3D scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs.

· Auto and Manual tracking

· Powerful camera reconstruction

· Real-time preview of your tracked footage and 3D scene

· Support for Planar tracking and Tripod solvers

Thanks to the high quality rigging and animation tools, Blender is being used for numerous short films, advertisements, TV series and feature films now.

· Envelope, skeleton and automatic skinning

· B-spline interpolated bones

· Curve editor and dope sheets

· Custom bone shapes for fast input

· Sound synchronization

Story Art, Drawing 2D in 3D

Really! Drawing directly in a 3D viewport makes a lot of sense. It opens unsurpassed workflow freedom for story-boarders and 2D artists.

· Combine 2D with 3D right in the viewport

· Full Animation Support with Onion Skinning

· Layers & Colors for Stroke and Fill

· Sculpt brush strokes & Parent to 3D objects

Blender has a flexible Python controlled interface. Layout, colors, size and even fonts can be adjusted. Use hundreds of add-ons by the community or create your own using Blender's accessible Python API.

· Customize the interface layout and colors

· Hi-res/Retina screen support

· Create your own tools and add-ons

· Draw over the OpenGL viewport

· Connect with Blender's Render API

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blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software

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From here, you can download the patterns of geometric models, including regular polyhedrons. We provide these models for free.

Data format

The data files are in .pdo format supported by Pepakura Designer. For access to these files, install Pepakura Designer first.
If you want to build white models, check off the item [Both Windows/Use Materials for Face] before print.

Regular polyhedron

From here you can get access to all the five regular polyhedrons. Each polyhedron is inscribed in a sphere with size of 10cm diameter.

Pyramid

Prism

Truncated Polygons

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From here, you can download the patterns of geometric models, including regular polyhedrons. We provide these models for free. The data files are in .pdo format supported by Pepakura Designer. For access to these files, install Pepakura Designer first. If you want to build white models, check off the item [Both Windows/Use Materials for Face] before print.

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Access AutoCAD® in the web browser on any computer. With the AutoCAD web app, you can edit, create, and view CAD drawings and DWG files anytime, anywhere.

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FreeCAD, the open source 3D parametric modeler