Written by: Yenny T. Sanchez from Hoover High School in San Diego Unified School District Hey fellow teachers! I’m pretty excited to share a fun upgrade I made this year to the classic water rocket lab I’ve been running with my 10th graders at Hoover High School for a while during our forces unit. This time, I integrated Micro:bits with their built-in accelerometers to collect real-time acceleration data during the rocket launch and the students loved it.  Students downloadin

“Finally, a new data collection that ACTUALLY comes with lesson plans and how to videos!”  Written by: Hannah Nakamoto When I first approached the Micro:bits  booth at my summer climate change professional development , I was scared. I had been feeling “behind the times” for a while because I hadn’t been integrating any sort of coding in my classroom. I wanted to make the jump, but as an already overwhelmed and overstimulated teacher, I had reservations. Common internal dialo

by Hannah Nakamoto and Yenny Sanchez Sarmiento “I always knew that this was a thing but I never thought about why  before.”  -10th grade high school student at Kearny High This past summer we attended the Climate Champions Design Summit , an opportunity where local teachers could gather at the University of California, San Diego, and learn about ways in which we could include more environmental literacy into our teaching practice. We experience a high school chemistry unit

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