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Project Based Learning in Primary School: Kindergarten Through 2nd Grade

Project Based Learning (PBL) has continued to gain attention in K-12 education for its ability to achieve two major goals: teach core…

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Project-Based Learning in Elementary Schools

Introduction Project Based Learning (PBL) is a great teaching method to engage and excite elementary school students. It emphasizes…

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Rising to the Challenge

The learners at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) in Chattanooga, TN started the new school year with a brand new SmartLab…

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Award-Winning Video: Wilder Elementary School

Give a round of applause for Littleton, Colorado’s Laura Ingalls Wilder Elementary School! They have been awarded first place our…

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Award-Winning Video: California Elementary School

Earlier this year we announced our first annual Learning Is Different Here™ contest. We received entries from schools across the…

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Where Learners Come into Their Own Thinking

The team at Lake Oswego School District in Oregon recently installed a number of SmartLab HQs throughout their district. Two of their…

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Positively Transformed Our Learning Culture

Mark Weerts, Principal of Prairie View Elementary School in East Troy, WI recently shared how the SmartLab HQ has impacted the school. The…

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Keeping Learners Engaged at Katherine Mecham Barney

Katherine Mecham Barney Elementary School in Queen Creek, AZ opened its SmartLab HQ in 2020. “This year,” explains Principal Chasity…

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Child’s Play: The Role of Imaginative Play in Early Learning

This past Saturday, I celebrated an important milestone—I turned 30! As with any milestone, I spent a bit of time thinking about where…

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Making Time to Play

When you think of play, what comes to mind?  Perhaps you recall childhood memories of playing “the floor is lava.” Maybe you…

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Colorado Elementary Schools Open New STEM Centers

Swanson and Thompson Elementary schools in Arvada, CO, opened two new STEM Centers with great excitement this month. The SmartLab HQs will…

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STEM Class and Music Class Unite in This STREAM Project

Saint Joseph’s Episcopal School is one of our partners schools in Florida. Their creative team integrated their fifth-grade STEM…

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