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Here, add tutorials such as Umbrella Create and other helps to help organize learning experiences that include design, creativity invention, etc. Articles about "how we did it well" might be helpful.
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Links
The Umbrella Create Model Tutorial at: https://sites.google.com/view/umbrellacreation/home is a helpful planning tool to create learning experiences around design thinking, genius hour, other intention challenges. As teachers and librarians are challenged to create lesson plans for design thinking, they may have difficulty creating experiences that are process related rather than content related. Becoming a mentor is very different than directing a learning experience as the expert in front of the room. Studying design thinking models first and then examining a tutorial like this one might help redirect how learning experiences are created. Furthermore, if the teacher librarian can coteach alongside the classroom teacher, the transition might be easier and more successful.
https://all4ed.org/reports-factsheets/connected-learning/
Information about interesting issues, publications, and webinars.
The Smithsonian offers a small collection of engineering challenges that have been developed for grades 1 - 5. The challenges include lesson plans, instructions, links to Smithsonian resources, and are based on Next Generation Science Standards.
The activities encourage students to use the engineering design process to find solutions to real world problems.
TeachEngineering offers lesson plans for Maker Challenges that allow students to learn about engineering concepts using maker principles. These lesson plans are good examples of how to design a lesson that allows students to explore STEM concepts in an open-ended fashion.
Link leads to a collection of classroom activities and resources hosted on the NASA website and developed by NASA for use by teachers in a classroom setting. Activities are organized by grade level and cover a variety of STEAM topics. Lessons encourage students to problem solve and search for creative solutions to problems.
This link leads to a collection of lesson plans developed by the Tech Museum of Innovation, the lesson plans are based on a variety of STEM subjects and promotes problem solving by using the design challenge process (Conceptualize, Construct & Test, Acquire Knowledge). Lesson plans are linked to Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core Standards, and California Science Content.
Videos
Videos
Creative Problem Solving and Becoming a Mentor:
Creative Problem Solving and Becoming a Mentor:
This short video goes through the major stages of CPR that are part of design thinking and inventing. See it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbxyiUG5RRI
- Compare this method with design thinking models.
- What are the best suggestions for becoming a mentor to such a strategy?
- In what disciplines and courses in your school lend themselves to CPS?
- Can "directive teacher" or traditional inquiry, and CPS coexist? If so, how?
An International Take on Design Thinking in the Classroom
An International Take on Design Thinking in the Classroom
BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS
- Developing Critical Life Skills
- Building World Awareness
- Creating Their Own Learning Experiences
BENEFITS FOR INSTRUCTORS
- Connection with More Students
- Creative and Interactive Lessons
The LAUNCH Cycle Method
The LAUNCH Cycle Method
A Common Method of Design Thinking
A Common Method of Design Thinking
This is an easy method to implement and adapt to fit your needs.
Articles
Articles
Article in Education Week Teacher by Anne Jolly that discusses developing lesson plans that incorporate open-ended STEM challenges that are often based on real world situations or problems.
Article by Tara Garcia Mathewson for The Hechinger Report which discusses the benefits of giving students the opportunity to study topics of their choice in depth in a co-taught interdisciplinary setting.
Seven Unexpected Things That Libraries Offer (Besides Books)
From robots to creation tools, libraries across the country are offering much more than access to books.
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