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Museum of science, art, and human perception provides hands-on activities, online exhibits, articles, and videos.

Site with good resources to encourage inventive and innovative thinking, creative play, etc. Includes inventor stories, creativity/problem-solving games, more.

Thinking is a process where we have to:

* create new connections
* look for meaning behind the facts.
* analyze in order to understand.

These are the goals of SuperThinking!

As an online student, there are plenty of free educational video games at your fingertips, with material targeted to every age

from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Exploration/Tinkering

Exploratory play is about asking questions: "What happens when I do this?" "What if I did it this way?" Experimenting with materials and pushing their limits encourages us to consider a wide range of possibilities when problem-solving. Playing around with objects and ideas helps us see that there may be more than one solution.

Some inventors have a goal in mind and work persistently toward it. Others stumble across solutions to problems they weren't trying to solve.