White Water Rafting: A ThinkerSpace Challenge to Keep You Cool
Engage children in project-based learning with this week’s ThinkerSpace Challenge. This week, keep your kids cool as they design and test raft designs.
The Big Ride: A ThinkerSpace Challenge for an Unprecedented Summer
This week’s challenge jumpstarts your students’ and children’s creativity by having them design the next biggest attraction for summer fun at an amusement park.
Transforming Great Ideas into Meaningful Learning Experiences
As you scour the internet for ideas to support digital learning, and more specifically digital project-based learning (PBL), you’re likely to come across articles titled “30 Awesome Design Challenges for Kids” or “Free STEM Activity Calendar” or “25 Real-World Problems to Engage Students in PBL.”
Three Ways to Get Them College- and Career-Ready
As disruptive as COVID-19 is, I am also struck by the extraordinary things happening across the country. First, I learned that the auto industry in my region was retooling to build ventilators, and then I saw the video of Tesla’s engineers working to develop ventilators from car parts.
Setting the Stage for Learning
Since 2017, I have read my way through 40–45 books by setting a goal using the Reading Challenges on Goodreads. With a 45-minute commute that reading has usually taken the form of listening to audiobooks (I’ve found that more valuable to me than the radio or music). Over the past month or so, my commute has been significantly shorter as I have taken the 20 steps from my bedroom to my temporary office.