Topic: Activity Design
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A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction
A toolkit offers an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity, and aligns instruction to grade-level priority standards. […]
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PBS SoCal Family Math
Early math skills can unlock powerful opportunities for children. This database offers insights, tools, and activities to support families to create joyful and authentic math experiences for children ages 2-5 […]
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Whose Agency? Building Critical Consciousness through Maker-Centered Learning and Arts Integration
In this Ignite Talk, Kurt Kaaekuahiwi and his students explore how art and making can impact engagement within the course. Kurt asks, “How do we humanize using Arts and Making […]
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Ancestral Tech and Making
How do we recognize, celebrate, and sustain indigenous and ancestral ways of making? Crystal Barajas Barr, an Art and STE(A)M Teacher at Urban Promise Academy Middle School in Oakland, shares […]
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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.
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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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Looking at Student Work: Suggested Practices
These suggested practices for looking at Maker-Centered Learning integrate a collaborative documentation practice.
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The Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio Projects
This online database of project ideas and instructional guides from the Tinkering Studio, part of the interactive Exploratorium museum, can provide inspiration for developing your own activities in your kitchen, […]
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How Libraries can turn stories into Maker Projects
In this article, read about how maker program coordinator, Nora Peters, saw an opportunity to better connect the activities of the maker space with the library’s mission to promote literacy […]
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TinkerCad Education
Tinkercad, an easy-to-use web app for design, offers standards-aligned lesson plans across all subjects.