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DESIGN SPACE.  Space on website.

Driving Question: How can we design new learning environments that support 21st century learners? Good information about collaborative learning spaces.

How Does the 5E Instructional Model Promote Active, Collaborative, Inquiry-Based Learning?  This article talks about the use of the 5E inquiry cycle to lesson planning to support inquiry science. This may be helpful in framing lesson design.

We need to add Art + Design to the equation - to transform STEM into STEAM. This site helps us frame why ART is important in STEAM. 

Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit

A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented project-based learning is meaningful in both ways.  The authors have identified seven essential elements of meaningful projects - very clear, concise article.

Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning. Good explanation of essentials of project-based learning.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Well-designed project-based learning (PBL) has been shown to result in deeper learning and engaged, self-directed learners. Learn more about the five core elements of successful PBL.- This is a series of 5 videos about PBL

PBL units of study by subject and grade level While in the classroom, I used this resource extensively to support PBL.

Reinventing Project-Based Learning Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss Reinventing Project-Based Learning offers educators an accessible guide for maximizing the benefits of project-based learning in today's technology-rich learning environment. This reader-friendly book speaks directly to educators, administrators, and professional development specialists who want to transform learning into a more active, student-driven experience, using technology tools for inquiry, collaboration, and connection to the world beyond the classroom. Examples from educators in many different countries showcase this new vision of instructional design.

STEM to STEAM: Art in K-12 Is Key to Building a Strong Economy.  This article speaks to the importance of innovation.

John Maeda President, Rhode Island School of Design As the nation embarks on a new school year, education leaders from President Obama on down are facing a renewed commitment to the STEM subjects -- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics -- as a driver of innovation.

John Maeda President, Rhode Island School of Design As the nation embarks on a new school year, education leaders from President Obama on down are facing a renewed commitment to the STEM subjects -- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics -- as a driver of innovation.

Across the country, teachers and administrators are coming to a similar conclusion: art informs science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and vice versa.  This is a good article about design thinking.

Gaining STEAM: Teaching Science Through Art An interesting article about teaching science through art.

Scale in geometry is the same thing as perspective in art, one teacher points out. Breaking down the walls between art, hard sciences and math, a new crop of educators is designing curricula that allow these subjects partner with one another, encouraging holistic learning.

NGSS prepared an appendix call Engineering Design in the NGSS.

Project-Based Learning: A Parent Primer Creating a symbaloo page of resources around PBL for parents might be a good idea.  This site might get us started.

Lokks like an interesting and well designed engineering activity.

Common Core and PBL Connections This is a great article to further our conversatiolns around the importance of PBL as the driver of instructional design and all learning environments.

This is a new book based on the work at the Stanford University d.school and its Environments Collaborative Initiative. It is a tool for helping people intentionally manipulate space to ignite creativity.

Over the past five years, we've amassed a body of lesson plans, activities, project briefs, and resources that we have used in our Studio H and Camp H programs. Some are bite-size creative calisthenics, some are obscure design theory readings, others are big, crazy, year-long construction projects.

Developing New STEM Teaching Methods

Maker space plans free on teachers pay teachers

free resources, ideas, and lesson plans for project based learning at all grade levels. students are fully engaged in learning experiences