Design Thinking
Find and share resources to help students engage in innovative processes for tackling complex real-world problems in human-centered ways.
Daily Activities That Support Students’ Creative Mindset
Teachers can provide learning experiences that guide high school students to become comfortable with uncertainty and risk-taking.5.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Creating a Curriculum-Based Board Game From Scratch
Instructions for middle and high school teachers who are interested in assigning their students an engaging group project.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Teaching Computational Thinking Without a Computer
Working with circuits and LED lights guides students to test ideas, troubleshoot problems, revise plans, notice patterns, and try again.812Your content has been saved!
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Flexible Seating and Student-Centered Classroom Redesign
How a visit to Starbucks inspired a change to flexible seating—and then some changes in teaching philosophy.568.9kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Designing a Public School From Scratch
On a mission to reimagine traditional schooling, a K–8 school in San Diego puts teachers and students at the center.195.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Design Thinking: A Problem Solving Framework
Students learn to empathize with others around the globe while solving real-world problems.105.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Birmingham Covington: Building a Student-Centered School
Educators take on the role of guides and motivate students to direct their own learning.117.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Empowering Students With Design Thinking
A school in India founded on design thinking principles encourages students to be active agents in their own learning.82.9kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Teaching Empathy Through Design Thinking
While empathy is the first step in the design thinking process, keep your students focused on this necessary element as they move through definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing.111.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How Accessible Tech Can Promote Empathy and Collaboration
A middle school design and technology teacher breaks down a three-project unit that nicely overlaps with STEAM content.7.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Designed for Engagement
A school district uses monthly missions in its design studios to increase student and teacher engagement and foster self-directed learning.59.2kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Arts Integration: Resource Roundup
All points of arts integration -- from benefits and implementation to linking the arts with core curriculum -- are covered in this roundup of useful Edutopia blog posts, articles, and videos.58.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Science Takes Flight With Paper Airplanes
A well-designed STEM activity helps elementary students understand the basics of physics and design thinking.29.2kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Why Learning Space Matters
To maximize learning potential, classrooms should be open, comfortable, well lit, and visually stimulating. Strategic use of existing space can make a big difference, too.50.9kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Design Thinking in Education: Empathy, Challenge, Discovery, and Sharing
As a model for reframing methods and outcomes, design thinking reconnects educators to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers.
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