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Direct linkMaria Shaheen; Lauren Loquasto – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2025
When thinking of early childhood STEM, images of active, play-based design challenges, experiences with robotics/coding, or hands-on experiences with open-ended materials (e.g., balls, ramps, loose parts) often come to mind. While these are certainly images that align with developmentally appropriate early childhood STEM practices, some of the…
Descriptors: Robotics, Values Education, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education
Download full textMcIntyre, Nancy – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2012
This article features an after-school FIRST Lego League (FLL) program at Chaminade Middle School in Chatsworth, California, USA. The after-school FLL program feeds into the high school FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) program wherein aspiring young engineers come to the high school team with several years of FLL experience. Through the FLL…
Descriptors: Competition, Robotics, Grade 6, Middle Schools
Stutler, Susan Lee – Gifted Child Today, 2011
Dabrowski's Theory of Overexcitabilities suggests that gifted and creative children experience the world via heightened levels of psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, emotional, and imaginational intensity. According to Dabrowski and Piechowski (1977), "intellectual, emotional, and imaginational linkages are the basis for highly creative…
Descriptors: Imagination, Story Telling, Space Sciences, Gifted
Gura, Mark – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2012
Lego robotics is engaging, hands-on, and encompasses every one of the NETS for Students. It also inspires a love of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and provides the experience students need to use digital age skills in the real world. In this article, the author discusses how schools get involved with Lego Robotics and…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Robotics, Educational Technology, Learning Motivation
