Yeti Academy uses a unique gamified approach to teach coding skills. With Yeti Code, we have both single-player and multiplayer games to help students develop their skills and motivate each other to learn. Students love our fun, interactive Yeti snow mountain...
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Introducing Sports Med, a Biology Elective Curriculum For Middle Schools
Looking for an elective curriculum that will get your students excited about life sciences? Need a tech-based, easy-to-use supplement to round out your regular biology curriculum? Yeti Academy has just what you need: Sports Med, an all-inclusive, activity-rich life...
3 STEM Activities for Middle School
Finding middle school STEM activities that are easy to set up can be challenging, especially if you need the activities to be remote-friendly or substitute-friendly. At Yeti Academy, we offer a variety of STEM courses, modules, and activities to give students an...
It’s Time to Update Your School’s Digital Literacy Curriculum
For many children and teens today, using certain parts of the internet feels as easy as breathing. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean they know everything they need to know to stay safe, use common academic and workplace tools as effectively as possible, and contribute...
4 Great Online STEM Activities for Elementary School
It’s often hard to find ready-made activities for teaching elementary school STEM, especially if you want to make your lessons remote-friendly. At Yeti Academy, we have a solution: an easy-to-use, resource-rich STEM learning platform that gives students an exciting...
3 Yeti Features That Make Student and Teacher Absences Easier
When students or teachers are absent, it’s easy for students to fall behind on learning. With Yeti Academy’s online learning platform, though, that doesn’t need to happen. Learning doesn’t have to stop just because not everyone is in the same room! Here are three Yeti...
Need A Substitute-Ready STEM Learning Platform? Try Yeti Academy!
You probably remember what substitute teacher days were like when you were in school. In the olden days, a teacher absence often meant either a less-than-ideally-executed lesson by a substitute who had almost no time to prepare, or a day given up to watching a vaguely...
Why Do Elementary Students Need STEM? It’s Not What You Think
It seems like everyone is chattering nonstop about STEM education. We see countless articles about the importance of STEM shared on social media every day. Politicians worry about the state of our STEM education and workforce, and some parents worry about how they can...
[Poster] 10 STEM Quotes to Inspire Your Students
As an educator, you are likely always looking for ways to keep your students motivated. That’s why we’ve created this inspirational poster with STEM quotes from famous scientists, astronauts, and other STEM role models for you to display in your classroom. These...
10 Under-Recognized Benefits of STEM Education
STEM education does more than just prepare students for technical careers. Students gain a lot of broadly applicable life skills from this content and style of teaching. A great STEM curriculum has the capacity to foster well-rounded individuals who can overcome...
4 Reasons to Choose a Customized Curriculum For Your School or Class
A customized curriculum is a growing trend in schools across the country. It’s easy to see why: these curriculums provide the best solution yet for schools with unique missions or teaching philosophies. Here’s why you too may want to consider a custom curriculum for...
How to Create a Great Digital Literacy Curriculum For Elementary Students
In today’s world, digital literacy is more important than ever. Your students need to learn how to successfully navigate the digital world and stay safe, both inside and outside the classroom. Schools need a curriculum that will help their elementary students become...
Why Your STEM Curriculum Needs to Be More Than Just Math and Science
STEM jobs are the future of our economy. To set up our children for success, we need to teach them about science, technology, engineering, and math at a young age. While many schools have prioritized math and science courses for decades, it’s not so common to see an...
Differentiated Learning: The Secret to School District Success
Not every student has the same learning style or speed, so many students struggle in traditional school systems. Fortunately, some educators have developed a solution to this problem: differentiated learning. Differentiated learning curriculums are adapted to meet the...
Need a Better Coding Curriculum? Try Yeti Code
Are you or your students feeling disengaged with your current coding lesson plan? Look no further than Yeti Academy’s unique coding curriculum, Yeti Code. Yeti Code is the best curriculum to help your elementary or middle school students fall in love with coding! What...
10 Tips for Teaching Coding to Middle School Students (And Keeping It Fun!)
When it comes to teaching middle school, every teacher knows the importance of keeping their students immersed in the source material from day one. You can engage middle-school students in coding lessons with these fun curriculum resources, teaching strategies, and...
How Much Time Do Teachers Really Spend Prepping for STEM Courses?
If you’ve ever worked in education, you know teachers work far longer hours than students and parents may think. While school may end at 2:00 or 3:30, teachers spend hours outside of regular classroom time on grading, planning, prep work, and other necessary tasks...
What is Digital Citizenship? How to Teach Students in Grades 3-9 Internet Safety and More
The internet has quickly become one of the most important aspects of our society for both children and adults. Whether we’re on a zoom call, playing games on our phones, researching a school project, or just surfing the web, we’re using technology for a large part of...