It’s alive! 🧑🔬🧪 Ever wondered how the first sci-fi novel came to be? Learn all about the origins of
“Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” in this K12 Teaching Moment!
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🍳 Join Us for the 2024 K12 National Cook-Off Finals! 🍽️

📅 Date: August 14, 2024 ⏰ Time: 5pm ET

📍 Filming Location: Kitchen of Purpose, Arlington, VA

🔥 What’s Cooking? Budding chefs in grades 6–12 have battled it out in the virtual round, and now six talented finalists are ready to sizzle in the in-person cook-off! They’ll whip up mouthwatering dishes, vying for the $1,000 grand prize. 🏆
👨‍🍳 Meet the Finalists: Discover their winning recipes and get a taste of their culinary magic! https://enrichment.k12.com/cookoff/

👉 Competition Overview:
Round 1: Students submitted original recipes, showcasing creativity and skill.
Round 2: In-person cook-off in Arlington, VA, at the Kitchen of Purpose, judged by Chef David Ho from Food Network’s Chopped, Postre Chef Isabel Coss, and Chef Daniela Hurtado.

🎁 Prizes:
1st place: $1,000
2nd place: $500
3rd place: $350
Culinary Gift baskets for 4th, 5th, and 6th place

👩‍👧‍👦 Join the Culinary Excitement! Mark your calendar and prepare for a feast of flavors!
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The birth of the internet brought many ideas alive, but our favorite is online learning! Discover the origins of remote learning and how K12 became a 25-year leader in online education.

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Did you know the bald eagle almost didn’t become America’s national bird? There was another surprising contender in the mix. Want to know how it all went down? Watch this K12 Teaching Moment for an unexpected twist!

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Welcome to the 2024 K12 Robotics Competition!

This year, we invited students in grades 4–12 to join the K12 Robotics League. Students worked in teams of two or three, with guidance from their instructors, and participated in two virtual qualifying rounds. Teams competed against others in their grade bands (4–6, 7–9, and 10–12) and skill levels (intermediate and advanced).

Today, we celebrate the top teams from the qualifying rounds as they compete for the national championship! Congratulations to all the students participating today—you’ve demonstrated incredible creativity, problem-solving skills, and coding expertise. Be proud of your achievements and enjoy this exciting culmination of your hard work!

Let the bot battles begin!

Date: June 19th, 2024
Time: 8:30AM ET
Location: Live-streamed on Facebook + Youtube
Hosted by: K12
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Witches, vampires, and werewolves, oh my. In this special Halloween episode of K12 Teaching Moments, uncover the origins of werewolves and why they’re among the supernatural creatures we know, fear, and love today.

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Happy February! It’s the month we celebrate Black history, love, and famous presidents— yet it’s the shortest of the year. Why, you ask? Find out in this K12 Teaching Moment.

Let’s travel back in time to ancient Rome. The Roman calendar year began in March and only had 304 days. That was until Roman king Numa Pompilius decided to align the calendar with the Lunar New Year, typically up to 355 days long.

Romans were superstitious of even numbers and considered them unlucky. So, King Pompilius added January and February to the calendar and changed each month to an odd number of days, either 29 or 31. But odd numbers across 12 months would sum up to an even number!

February had to be the “odd one out” with a mere 28 days.
The calendar we know today has changed since then, but February is stuck with 28 days—29 if it’s a leap year, but that’s a different episode!

Ever wonder what goes on behind the K12 competitions? Here’s a peek at the fun, the focus—and the flubs—from Robotics and our National Cook-Off! #K12 #K12Competitions #BTS #StudentCompetitions #OnlineLearning #OnlineStudent #Shorts

We’re spending some time in the kitchen with Aliyah for this episode of Kids Teach. She’s a high schooler at a K12-powered school and K12 Cook-Off finalist who agreed to try her hand at teaching James, K12’s CEO, a few skills to improve his baking. While they’re working the dough for a sweet treat, Aliyah gleans some tips about management from James’s perspective in the C-suite.

Aliyah and her family love that online learning means she can work at her own pace and find more time for exploring her culinary passions. James loves to hear how families like hers are thriving with personalized learning.

Share in this sweet exchange and learn Aliyah’s recipe for from-scratch cinnamon rolls. Then follow along as we put more students in charge in our continuing Kids Teach series.

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Join us for the much-anticipated reveal of this year’s K12 Art Competition winners! Our talented students from grades K–12 have poured their creativity into traditional 2D art, digital masterpieces, and innovative AI-generated art. Now, it’s time to celebrate their incredible work and announce the winners who have impressed us all.

🗓️ Date: June 20, 2024 ⏰ Time: 5:30pm ET 📍 Location: Virtual

What to expect?

Discover the top artists in each category and grade band who will take home their share of $20,000 in prizes!
Art Showcase: A virtual gallery of the semi-finalists’ work across all categories, celebrating the diverse talents of our students.

Special Acknowledgments: A moment to appreciate all participants and the hard worK of our judges and educators.
Public Voting Recap: A look back at the public’s favorites from the AI art category.
Prize Ceremony: Witness the joy as we award the winners with their well-deserved prizes.

Stay Connected: Follow us on social @k12.student and visit our website for the latest updates and a sneak peek at some of the entries that captivated us this year! enrichment.k12.com/art-competition/

Art is a language that transcends words. It’s a form of expression that allows us to see the world through the eyes of our young creators. We can’t wait to share this experience with you!
RSVP Now and be part of this inspiring event!
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It’s the 4th episode of K12’s National Cook-Off! Last week, we saw Abijah’s stylish dishes; now, it’s time for Stella to get things cooking. Will her background and luck of the draw give her the edge?

Episode 5 (and our last finalist) will be uploaded next week. If you’re looking for a taste of the action, watch until the end, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss it.

Voting for the people’s choice winner opens July 23 and ends July 29. Mark your calendars and visit https://enrichment.K12.com/cookoff/ to review the finalists and choose your favorite.

K12-powered schools offer a wealth of real-life experiences to inspire student excellence. If you want to add some extra fun to online school, enroll today!

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We are excited to have the finalists of our K12 Robotics Competition coming in-person to compete at the national level for the title of K12 National Robotics Champion!

Congratulations, Class of 2025! 🎓 🎉 We’re so happy to celebrate your milestone and share in your joy as we mark 25 years of online learning. We’re amazed at all you’ve done—from embracing innovation to discovering your passions and finding the courage to forge your own path.

We see the future of education in you. We thank you and your families for putting your trust in our vision of personalized learning for all students, everywhere. And we’re more inspired than ever to advance and improve education options for the next 25 years of graduates.

Celebrate with us and see our stories at https://bit.ly/4ddMIIM. #25YearsOfK12 #Graduation #2025Grad #ClassOf2025

Students are introduced to the role of electricity and magnetism as they build speakers. They also explore the properties of magnets, create electromagnets, and determine the directions of magnetic fields. They conduct a scientific experiment and show cause-effect relationships by monitoring changes in the speaker's movement as the amount or the direction of the current change.

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Music: Rollanddrop - Jingle Punks & Santo Rico - Twin Musicom

Students build their own simple conductivity tester and explore whether given solid materials and solutions of liquids are good conductors of electricity.

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Music: Blue Skies - Silent Partner

In the continuing (hypothetical) storyline of the Lost in the Amazon unit, students discover the relationship between an object's mass and the amount of space it takes up (its volume). As they create small boats using clay, they learn about the concept of displacement and how an object can float if it displaces enough water, and the concept of density and its relationship to mass and volume.

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Music: Buddy - Bensound.com

Challenged with a hypothetical engineering work situation in which they need to figure out the volume and surface area of a nuclear power plant’s cooling tower (a hyperbolic shape), students learn to calculate the volume of complex solids that can be classified as solids of revolution or solids with known cross sections. These objects of complex shape defy standard procedures to compute volumes. Even calculus techniques depend on the ability to perform multiple measurements of the objects or find functional descriptions of their edges. During both guided and independent practice, students use (free GeoGebra) geometry software, a photograph of the object, a known dimension of it, a spreadsheet application and integral calculus techniques to calculate the volume of complex shape solids within a margin of error of less than 5%—an approach that can be used to compute the volumes of big or small objects. This activity is suitable for the end of the second semester of AP Calculus classes, serving as a major grade for the last six-week period, with students’ project results presentation grades used as the second semester final test.

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Music: Inevitable - Diamond Ortiz

Thanks for stopping by our channel! TeachEngineering is a FREE digital library comprised of standards-aligned engineering curricula for K-12 educators to make applied science and math come alive through engineering design. Browse through our hands-on activities and be sure to subscribe to our channel for videos posted each week.

Music: Dutty

Students revisit the Pop Rockets activity from Lesson 3, in which mini paper rockets are powered by the chemical reaction of antacid-tablets and water in plastic film canisters. This time, however, the design of their pop rockets is limited by budgets and supplies. They get a feel for the constraints of real engineering projects as well as the opportunity to redesign and retest their rockets to make improvements. Rocket build instructions as well as activity-guiding budget/sketch and data worksheets are provided.

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Music: Coffee Stains - Riot

In this activity, students explore the importance of charts to navigation on bodies of water. Using one worksheet, students learn to read the major map features found on a real nautical chart. Using another worksheet, students draw their own nautical chart using the symbols and identifying information learned.

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Music: Rain - Santo Rico