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Essential Professional Development Tips for Educators

batuhan demirtas — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:35:07 +0000

In the exciting world of education, it’s super essential for teachers to keep learning and growing. Think about it: everything in the classroom constantly changes, from the new stuff we learn from research to the cool tech continuously popping up. Plus, what kids need and expect from school is continually shifting. Teachers must keep up […]

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How to Teach Your Children About Climate Change?

batuhan demirtas — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:43:23 +0000

By now, climate change is no breaking news — children are already hearing about it and seeing it around them. As with every difficult subject, developmental psychologists recommend that caretakers and educators should step in to ensure children are learning about climate change in an age-appropriate and factually correct way, while being mindful of their […]

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How to get kids interested in science

batuhan demirtas — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:35:11 +0000

Science and children have an organic bond, since children are naturally equipped with a curiosity towards the external world and how things work. The important thing is to nurture this relationship by integrating science into early childhood education, and keeping them interested in science as they grow. As most parents and educators know, children’s attention […]

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Short Attention Span in Children – Symptoms and Ways to Improve

batuhan demirtas — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:47:53 +0000

The amount of time people can give their undivided attention to a task, or in short ¨attention span¨, can differ with age in children and for some kids, this time span can be quite short. Read further to learn what is ¨attention span¨, how it changes from age to age, what are the symptoms for […]

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How do we see Colour?

batuhan demirtas — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:11:30 +0000

How do we see Colour? Join Twing on a fun adventure to help bring colour back to the island on the Twin App! Here’s a Preview of What You’ll Learn! What is Colour? The grass is green, the sky is blue and rainbows are, well, colourful, right? But what exactly are colours? Where do they […]

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Art in STEM Education

batuhan demirtas — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:07:41 +0000

Enhancing STEM with the Power of the Arts You may have heard of STEM education before, right? Well, if you haven’t heard, STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Though not mentioned in the acronym, the Arts play an important role in a well-rounded STEM education. Adding the ‘A’ to STEM The addition of […]

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How to Make a 3D Sun Model

batuhan demirtas — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:02:38 +0000

About the Sun The Sun is the star at the center of our Solar System that sends the Earth light and energy. In fact, without the Sun’s intense energy, there would be no life on Earth. We know that the Earth’s structure consists of different layers. But did you know the Sun also has layers? […]

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Double-Winged Learning

batuhan demirtas — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:56:13 +0000

What Does Double-Winged Mean at Twin? At Twin Science, our quest is to create the change-makers of tomorrow through STEM education. Being double-winged means that children and individuals are: 1) equipped with STEM competencies and 2) develop social and emotional skills with a strong sense of social responsibility. By growing these two wings, kids will […]

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What is Solar Power?

batuhan demirtas — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:03:45 +0000

Harness the power of the Sun and join Twing on a fun adventure to help bring electricity back to the island in the Twin App! Here’s a Preview of What You’ll Learn! Renewable vs. Non Renewable Energy Before we learn about solar energy, we first need to now the term renewable energy! Renewable energy is […]

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Education for self-deployment

batuhan demirtas — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 13:19:59 +0000

In Spain, there is currently a project, an experiment that is called the 4 day working week. I sometimes wonder whether our children would know what to do with that spare day. Because we taught them mathematics, we taught them geography, we taught them just that and the other. But we haven’t taught them how […]

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