What's your favorite SMILE activity in Spanish?
We asked two experienced educators who regularly work with Spanish speakers for their favorite SMILE activities in Spanish.
We asked two experienced educators who regularly work with Spanish speakers for their favorite SMILE activities in Spanish.
There are at least two different ways to search for the hundreds of activities in Spanish at howtosmile.org.
1. The Advanced Search method brings up mostly activities catalogued in Spanish (the description of the activity is in that language).
a. Hit Advanced Search on the howtosmile.org home page:
Carly Deboice, program developer at TELUS World of Science in Calgary, Alberta, answers a few questions about her work, how she collaborates with local teachers, and how she makes use of howtosmile.org.
Brenda Cervantes, the lucky winner of howtosmile.org's 16GB Wi-Fi Apple iPad, is no stranger to technology. She runs her facility's technology lab, presiding over 14 computers and teaching 40 kids ranging from 6 to 18 years old.
Stacy Oliver, a homeschool teacher for her three kids (ages 8, 10, and 11), discovered howtosmile.org when it was mentioned in a 4-H newsletter. "It was love at first sight," says Stacy, who lives with her family in San Jose, California.
Though the past three decades have seen dramatic declines in world amphibian populations, some amphibians--like the large and notoriously invasive cane toad, pictured here--are still going great guns. (Read more about frogs lost & found.)
We at howtosmile.org have frogs on the brain these days. Credit our new partner, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), and their first-rate hands-on activities, such as Is Climate Change Good for Amphibians?
In his position at NASA, where he helps coordinate the agency’s array of education programs, Jim Stofan lives and breathes aeronautics. But he came to rocket science the long way around, via marine science and environmental education.