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  • #smithingifted Teacher Lab: Where Teaching Ideas Get Tested

    #smithingifted Teacher Lab: Where Teaching Ideas Get Tested

    The #smithingifted Teacher Lab is a place where teaching ideas move from theory into real classrooms. I’ll share the successes, challenges, surprises, and adjustments that come from using gifted education, STEM, robotics, technology, and creative-thinking strategies with real students. But the Teacher Lab isn’t just about my classroom—teachers who use #smithingifted curriculum can share their…

  • Rubber Band Racers in the Gifted Classroom: Engineering, Energy, and a Whole Lot of “Try Again”

    Rubber Band Racers in the Gifted Classroom: Engineering, Energy, and a Whole Lot of “Try Again”

    TeacherGeek 2.0 Rubber Band Racers turn a simple STEM build into a powerful gifted learning experience. Students explore force, motion, energy transfer, friction, measurement, data collection, and redesign as they build, test, and improve their racers. This hands-on challenge encourages problem-solving, perseverance, and engineering thinking while giving students a fun reason to collect evidence, analyze…