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ECU STEM Symposium Resources

Summary

Your one-stop hub for everything we shared at the ECU STEM Symposium

Welcome, ECU STEM Symposium attendees! If you connected with Switch Classroom at the symposium in Greenville, this page is for you.

Instead of scanning multiple QR codes or searching across the full Switch Classroom website, you’ll find everything we featured right here. Session descriptions, lesson links, and featured collections are organized below so you can quickly access what you explored with us.

 

Session Resources

Zap! Squish! Light It Up! Play-Doh Circuits for Grades 4–12

Participants used Play-Doh, LEDs, and batteries to explore conductivity, resistance, and series versus parallel circuits with Switch Classroom’s Intro to Electricity lesson. This hands-on session showed how tactile learning can make electricity concepts stick for students across grade levels.

Access the Play-Doh Electric Circuits Teacher Guide here.

Catch the Breeze! Build & Test Windmills with Recycled Materials

Participants built and tested working windmill designs using everyday materials, connecting wind energy concepts to engineering practice. This session emphasized iteration, data collection, and real-world connections.

Access the Building a Windmill Hands-On Teacher Guide here.

 

Featured Collections

Flinn Scientific Collection

Optional materials kits and lab supports to make hands-on energy investigations easier to implement.

Spanish Resources

Classroom-ready Switch Classroom lessons and activities translated into Spanish to support multi-lingual learners and dual-language classrooms.

 

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Keep Exploring

All Switch Classroom resources are free, classroom-tested, and designed for real classrooms.

Explore the full Resource Library, with hundreds of lessons and activities here.

Thanks for spending part of your ECU STEM Symposium with us. We can’t wait to see how you bring these resources to life in your classroom!