Jewel's School Gems by Jewel Pastor
Fun STEM activities and ideas for busy elementary school teachers like you!
Eels, sharks, manatees, dolphins, fish and shellfish – all of these are ocean animals. Ocean animals and the habitat they live in (the ocean!) are vitally important to humans. While ocean creatures and their ocean habitats are essential in keeping various ecosystems in balance, many ocean animals also serve as food to billions of humans (and other animals) worldwide. These are…
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If you could describe each year of your teaching life with a song, what would your playlist look like? After coming up with my list below, I realized mine is a mix of old and new upbeat tunes, plus a lot of feel-good and inspirational songs. These songs very well describe the experiences I’ve gone through all these years. Here…
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Help please! I know all schools and classrooms are created differently, but student behavior is often an issue (off task, disrupting others, not working, misusing materials, etc.) in mine. How do you handle these situations? Do you have any classroom management strategies that I can use? Unfortunately, this teacher is not alone in her troubles. Classroom management has long been…
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Who in their wildest dreams could have imagined a school year like 2020? Educators around the world have spent hours learning how to provide distance learning to their students, while helping their own children learn at home, taking care of family members, providing healthy meals and more. Being an educator myself, I have quickly responded to requests for materials to…
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Hello there! Today’s post is about Unplugged Coding Activities! I am so excited to share this post with you! I know you are going to love these resources as much as I do. What Are Unplugged Coding Activities? Unplugged Coding Activities sounds like a contradiction in terms, doesn’t it? Or at the very least, a backwards way of teaching a…
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Have you heard of my Bible STEM challenges? Well, I have been creating and uploading STEM challenges for different stories from the Bible since 2017. I’m proud to say that there were nothing like these Bible STEM resources when I uploaded my first set of Bible STEM challenges on the Teachers Pay Teachers website. Bible STEM Challenges Defined A STEM challenge is an activity that encourages students to research, design, build, test, and reflect in…
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