Topic: Visible Thinking
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Beyond Rubrics Toolkit
While there are many benefits of making and makerspaces, one of the greatest challenges of implementing making in K–12 schools is the question of how to assess collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and iterative making practices and outcomes. The Beyond Rubrics Toolkit has embedded tools to capture evidence of the process of making. This toolkit is our first…
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Cultivating a Repair Mindset Toolkit
The Repair Mindset Toolkit, which was developed and tested by educators, includes teaching and learning strategies, tactics, and classroom materials designed to develop students’ Repair Mindset. The toolkit presents new approaches to thinking routines, invites and complements discussions of the environment (e.g., Circular Economy), economics (e.g., extractive capitalism), politics (Right to Repair), ethics (e.g., social…
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Learning in the Making: Storytelling
Engage the elements of storytelling – character, setting, and plot – to combat stereotypes with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Paper Box Motion Story
The Paper Box Motion Story is like a tiny, manual movie theatre! It can be used to summarize information, share learned facts, and even create and tell fictional stories. Follow along with this activity video and project guide to make your own as you read and reflect on Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The True…
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The Maker Educator Assessment Rubric
This rubric is designed for educators to identify where they are within stages of development along four categories of pedagogy: Goals, Planning Activities & Lessons, Planning Learning Progressions, Facilitation, and Development & Assessment.
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Open Portfolio Journey Map
What’s involved in creating an open portfolio? This overview helps to situate all the pieces to consider, whether it’s the practical actions needed to document learning or bigger questions related to motivation and authentic audiences.
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Practical Guide to Open Portfolios
This guide distills some of the best practices for documentation and portfolio creation as a means of assessment in maker-centered learning environments
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Documentation Prompt Jar
This collection of adaptable documentation prompts supports learners to capture their work, process, and experience while making and learning.
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Indigenous STEAM Learning Activities
The Indigenous STEAM Collaborative co-designs, implements, and shares land based educational materials developed in collaboration with families, communities, and educators and research.
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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 relatives it comes in contact with.