Tufts Early Childhood Technology Graduate Certificate Program

Are you attending ? Want to bring playful coding into PreK-2nd grade?

Join ECT team members Amanda Strawhacker, Amanda Sullivan, & Aim Unahalekhaka for the virtual Creation Lab on Weds 6/29 @ 8:30am CDT!

🙌🏽 Hands-on Play
📚 New Research
🤖 Tech Tools Demo

Don't miss out on:

- Drama and dance with the Robot

- Self-portrait animation using the programming app

- Cutting-edge research from the Research Group at Tufts University

- Raffle Giveaway 🎟, free resources, and more!

Happening tomorrow: live event! Join this show & tell conversation about STEAM education in PreK-6, guided by Tufts University faculty members from the Tufts Early Childhood Technology Graduate Certificate Program, and from the Master's program at the Tufts University Department of Education

Sign up to see more engineering education ideas tomorrow, Tues 3/2 @ 6pm EST:

Junk Mail Engineering Live Event RSVP Join Us for Junk Mail Engineering LIVE! Tuesday, March 2nd at 6pm ET. To attend, please register below. We will send you the webinar login a day before the live event to the email address you provide.

First Activity is here! Read on for great ideas for weekend family fun!

Activity #1

Thank you for joining our series on in early childhood and elementary education.

Have you been saving your junk mail? It's not too late to join us!

For your first challenge look at the materials you have collected so far. How would you build a three dimensional structure that can stand on it's own, and is at least 6" in height? Can you build this without using materials like tape or fasteners (like staples, paper clips) to hold the structure together?

Start slow by joining paper materials with tape or fasteners (like staples, paper clips) to make beautiful sculptures, like those found here: https://www.makeandtakes.com/creating-3-d-paper-sculptures-with-kids

To take this further, can you build your structure to holds something heavy? Check out this website for inspiration! - https://thehomeschoolscientist.com/paper-structures-engineering-challenge/

Comment your questions and observations as you work to this post. Help each other as you work. Post a picture of your work in progress or creations.

Got ? Join the and Elementary Education STEM programs for a special slow chat series on how you can use everyday materials like junk mail to explore science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics. (STEAM) Each day we will explore a new idea together here, on Facebook. Teachers, parents, students and friends are all invited to participate!

The series runs from February 18th and ends on March 2nd with a live Zoom event (registration details will be shared shortly).

How to get started:
Like this post.
Begin saving/collecting mail and junk mail at home.
Brainstorm things you can build only with the mail you have collected and comment to the post.
Watch this page for new activity prompts.
Share this post with friends and colleagues to join the fun.

Co-sponsored by:
- go.tufts.edu/ECT and
Elementary STEM Ed - https://as.tufts.edu/education/prospective/graduate/elementary-STEM