Format: Project Guides
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Learning in the Making: Stop Motion Animation
Ever wonder how your favorite cartoon characters come to life? It is done through the process of animation. Stop motion is one style of animation, and it’s really simple! This […]
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Lighthouse Creativity Lab Project Guides
This collection of 10 project guides offers vibrant snapshots of maker-centered learning in a formal K-12 school setting with cross-curricular, hands-on activity ideas.
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Strawberries and Labor
In this lesson, students examine an infographic on strawberries and labor that shows the connections between strawberry growing, production, and immigration policies.
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Planting Your Own Garden
Building a planter box is a simple way to start gardening. This lesson will help students build their own planter box using a few simple items they can get at […]
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Water Mapping
This activity plan draws on Indigenous observation practices to explore and map all the places water lives around you, where it comes from, where it travels to, and what other […]
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Sonidos maravillosos
En esta actividad clásica, haz un tocadiscos con materiales simples y escucha tu LP de vinilo favorito.
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Design an Inclusive Play Space
This lesson plan involves learners in mathematical thinking about measurement and scaling, spatial reasoning, and the engineering mindset through 3D modeling with Tinkercad.
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Ethnomath: Geometric Rotations
In this lesson plan, learners will learn about rotations, identify them in Ugandan and African baskets, and practice drawing a transformed figure.
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Circuit Boards
This project from the Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio, which supports low-barrier, high ceiling exploration of circuits and electricity, is adaptable to any learning environment.
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Light Play
This project from the Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio, which supports low-barrier, high ceiling exploration of light and shadow, is adaptable to any learning environment.