by Brian | May 21, 2018 | Change, Education, High altitude ballooning, High Hopes Project, Messy Learning, NASA, Project Based, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, The High Hopes Project, Twitter
NOTE: If you’d like to be part of this project you and your students can send us their “High Hopes” for their school, community and the world and we will launch them up high to 100,000 feet where they will be released to slowly drift down to the...
by Brian | Dec 5, 2017 | Bee-Bots, Change, Coding, Education, Inclusion, Messy Learning, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Wikis
Last spring I was able to purchase, thanks to some unspent funding from a grant, 3 Bee-Bot “Hives” – they are about $600 each – each “hive” includes 6 Bee-Bots, a charging plate and a yellow backpack for transporting them. With time...
by Brian | Oct 12, 2017 | Change, Education, Making, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
A few years ago (2015) my wife and I were in Christchurch, New Zealand, and we came upon this hands-on Da Vinci Mechanics Exhibit at the Canterbury Museum. I’d meant to share a post about it when we returned and I was reminded of that when I came across the...
by Brian | May 12, 2017 | Bee-Bots, Change, Coding, Cooperative Learning, Education, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Wikis
Awhile back I (well, the place where I work) was able to purchase 3 Bee-Bot “Hives.” A hive is 6 Bee-bots, a charger plate and a yellow backpack to carry everything around. Once I had them I quickly put together a class for Pre-K – 2 teachers. The...
by Brian | May 8, 2017 | Brian Crosby, Coding, Cooperative Learning, Education, Making Connections With Blogging, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
Earlier this year I agreed to lead two grant funded STEM professional development courses for teachers sponsored by Metairie Park Country Day School, June 7th, 8th and 9th, 2017. The courses will be held at Tulane University in New Orleans as part of the 2017 Math...
by Brian | Apr 7, 2017 | Brian Crosby, Change, Coding, Drones, Education, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
So much going on right now so my plans to blog more often have taken another hit. One of the things going on that I’m really looking forward to is my participation in the Wyoming Technology Engagement Curriculum Connection (WyTECC) in Rock Springs, Wyoming in...