Can you trust your eyes? Students explore optical illusions to discover the fascinating gaps between seeing and perceiving.

Discover the magic of flipbooks! A simple, hands-on way to teach animation, creativity & storytelling—one page at a time. ✏📖 #STEM

How does music become digital? Uncover the magic of binary code and experiment with tunes using Chrome Music Lab's Song Maker.

Explore how coding and music are related with Song Maker in Chrome Music Lab. See how shapes create sounds and find missing notes in songs.

Fractals for Everyone: Draw, Explore, and Code! Learn about fractal trees & the Koch snowflake through fun, hands-on activities.

Engineering Melodies: A Music Box Adventure! Discover how music boxes work, code tunes, and explore the art and science of sound!

Unlock the Magic of Tessellations with Hands-on Art and Coding. These repeating patterns make geometry fun and accessible.

Doodles & Digits, by former teacher Caroline Farkas, uses animation (like a tutu-clad chicken!) to make math fun & accessible for students.

Bring geography to life with Google My Maps! Turn geography lessons into interactive adventures and empower students to create custom maps.

Coding for Kindness project details the creation of a communication app for non-verbal individuals, inspired by the novel "Out of My Mind."

Streamline your Google Slides with 5 easy tips to declutter, organize, and enhance your presentations for smoother, more engaging lessons.

Sketch in 3D! Have your students master isometric drawing – the fun and easy way to bring their ideas to life on paper.

Unlock your students' creativity through pixilation animation! This hands-on activity turns kids into stop-motion stars.

Level Up With the Ultimate Video Puzzle Challenge. Chop up a video, scramble the parts, and challenge students to reassemble it.

Pattern blocks make stop-motion animation fun & easy! Learn how students can create and share animations using these colorful shapes.

Ditch boring text! Infographics turn facts into fun pictures & stories. Learn how to make your own with Adobe Express & easy-to-follow steps

Breathe life into six-word memoirs with Adobe Express! Students personalize their six-word narratives with photos, backgrounds, and images.

Code, build, play! Students design and build their own arcade games. They code a game, create contollers, and invite another class to play.

Read my takeaways from my first FETC such as AI in writing & teaching, cool Adobe Express tools, and how ISTE conference and FETC compare.

Discover STEM brilliance at Dallas's Perot Museum with Code Hero - a giant music sequencer, and Bird Builder - craft your feathered friend.

Our easy-to-follow project will show you how to use Adobe Express to create a signature block that fits your style.

Kids explore the relationship between pixels and mosaics, create virtual mosaics and pixel art and compare and contrast one with the other.

Incorporate mosaics into a Christmas STEM activity – a delightful blend of creativy, math, and geometry for a festive learning experience!

Students hide a word in an image by writing it in pixels. This helps students see how small pixels really are.

Pixel art is a fun way for kids to learn about how pictures are made on devices like phones, computers, and TVs.

Students learn how layout and composition work in graphic design. They use what that they learn to make lost pet posters with Google Slides.

Discover how to use fonts and text-changing tools in Google Slides. You learn how to use paint formatting and adding special characters

Students will use both layers and color theory to create a picture out of shapes in Google Slides

Students analyze different types of graphic design and then find real world examples using Google Maps street view.

Creating a Scratch Band: A Fun Music and Coding Activity. Kids drag and drop code blocks to create melodies and a band to move to the beat.

Teach students simple ways to file and name things in Google Drive.

Explore building techniques with LEGOs in this fun STEM project.

I just got back from the ISTE conference in Philadelphia. Here are 3 of the many sessions I found useful.

Students learn how to identify LEGOs and what a lexicon is.

LEGO Mystery Model Mayhem! Teams work together to build hidden models in this fun observation and communication challenge!

Students create a stop-motion animation of a jigsaw puzzle piece being put together and then taken apart.

Students create a "bouncing ball" animation using Google Slides.

A thaumatrope is a disk that combines two pictures. It's a great way to introduce animation.