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What if your students could create anything they imagined with code?

Getting Unstuck is a 10-module intermediate Scratch curriculum to help your students develop greater creative and conceptual fluency with code. The curriculum reimagines the classroom as a design studio: a culture of learning in which students explore, create, share, and

Chris Colley August 17, 2021 Community, Online, resources, Scratch No Comments Read more

TedTalk – Engage Emotion, Engage Imagination: Cognitive Tools At Work

Human beings are emotional and imaginative; they feel and envision possibilities. My idea worth sharing is that all educators can use tools of imagination to evoke emotion and imagination and, as a result, make everyday education more effective for all

Chris Colley May 13, 2021 Online, resources No Comments Read more

#crankycontraption Activity Page

Cranky contraptions are whimsical and mechanical, used to demonstrate students understanding of motion mechanics, simple simple machines and of course creativity, problem solving and collaboration to name only a few. This capsule is designed to get teachers and students creating

Chris Colley April 29, 2021May 3, 2021 Community, Live Stream, makerspaces, Online, open creative space days, resources No Comments Read more

#ExploreLightAndShadow Activity Page

Explore the amazing interplay of lights, shadows, reflections, and refractions with our new capsule entitled #ExploreLightAndShadow. This capsule is a wonderful way to get your students observing and tinkering with the world around them in a playful way. Curriculum Connections: Earth

Chris Colley March 17, 2021March 30, 2021 Community, events, Live Stream, Online No Comments Read more

#StopMotion Activity Page – 2021

YouTube LINK to OCS Live Stream Stop Motion – Film making technique whereby objects are manipulated and photographed in a sequence to create an illusion of movement. #StopMotion is one of those things that can be done in all grade

Chris Colley January 14, 2021February 16, 2021 Community, Live Stream, Makey Makey, Online No Comments Read more

@ExploringBalance Activity Page • 2020

In this virtual makerspace, the LEARN team is #ExploringBalance with balancing sculptures, mobiles, homo-polar motors, and much more. We will focus our exploration on key concepts of balance, like gravity, mass, center of gravity, and distribution of mass. This capsule

Chris Colley December 1, 2020December 7, 2020 Community, Learnshop, Live Stream, makerspaces, Online, open creative space days, STEAM Challenges, STEAM in K No Comments Read more

#MarbleMaze Activity Page • May 2020

#MarbleMaze Activity Page • May 2020

  Curriculum Connects Science and Technology Newton’s 1st law – “objects at rest stay at rest, objects in motion stay in motion” Design objects or structures that affect a force on an object Use of measuring instruments Technological Design process

Chris Colley May 27, 2020September 15, 2020 Community, Live Stream, makerspaces, Online, open creative space days, STEAM Challenges No Comments Read more

#KitchenTableTinkering Activity Page • May 2020

YouTube Link Brown Bagging it! 10 Minute Design Thinking Challenges MATRIX | Teacher’s Guide

Chris Colley May 7, 2020May 8, 2020 Community, makerspaces, Online, resources, STEAM Challenges No Comments Read more

#citystory Activity Page • April 2020

  Welcome to our first live stream called #citystory A city story can be about anything that might happen in the city or the country. Making small models of houses and buildings will help make your stories come alive… What

Chris Colley April 28, 2020July 6, 2020 Community, Online, open creative space days, resources No Comments Read more

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