Engage: Talk a walk around the museum. Video record a short clip highlighting your favorite place to play in the museum, and explain why.  Next, everyone shares their video clip with one another. End this engaged activity by making connections around shared experiences, similar emotions, and/or locations in the museum. 

Reflect and Discuss: (1) How did you feel sharing a short video clip with another individual? (2) What might be the pros and cons of using video recordings and share-outs in an initial workshop?

Plan for Workshop 1: What community building activity might you use for your educators to get to know one another? What is the purpose behind the activity you selected? How might the activity begin to build a sense of vulnerability and trust among educators? Be sure to look at the community building activities developed by our partnering sites to guide your thinking. 

Engage: Click on the video to the right to learn about your activity/task - Design your own grabber and see what you can reach. This activity was created by The Tech Interactive as part of the CoBuild19 project where we created engineering and maker activities that could be done at home during the pandemic.

Reflect and Discuss: (1) During this activity, why did you experience failure (e.g., materials, prototype, unclear task or instructions)? (2) How did you feel when you experienced a failure? (3) What were approaches you took when you experienced frustration or experienced a failure? 

Plan for Workshop 1: What activity/task will be the focus of the PD? How will you implement this activity/task within Workshop 1 to elicit experiences with failure?

We provided you with questions above (Reflect and Discuss) that you may want to pose to educators after the activity/task. Brainstorm other questions around experiences with failure you might pose to your educators before, during, and/or after the completion of the activity.

Engage: Individually respond to the following: (a) What is your definition of failure? (b) What is your definition of failure within STEAM-making activities and programs? (c) Which of the youth's quotes on this page do you agree with? Why?

Reflect and Discuss: (a) How might your views of failure differ from others in your organization and educational team? (b) How might your categorize these varying views of failure (e.g., youth-focused, educator-focused, environment-focused, cultural-focused, system-focused, etc.)? (c) How comfortable are you with saying "failure" in your STEAM-making activities and programs?

Plan for Workshop 1: The focus of Workshop 1, is not necessarily to come to a shared definition, but to acknowledge and appreciate varying views of failure. Brainstorm ways to facilitate this discussion. Be open and receptive to varying views and perspectives on failure. We encourage you to look at the Workshop 1 resources developed by our partnering sites to guide your thinking. In addition, we suggest you gather the different perspectives of failure in Excel, Miro, or Padlet, to return to these views of failure in Workshops 3 and 4.