Workshops
Construct This!
Using the STEMAZing Picture Books, these workshops focused on connections to the 7 Essential Life Skills from Mind in the Making. From activities with Duplos to construction with craft sticks, cups, sticky craft sticks, and newspaper dowels, there are all manner of ways to engage our youngest learners with building and construction projects using a variety of…
Read MoreOne Grain of Rice
A mathematical fairy tale similar to The King’s Chessboard. A village girl outsmarts a selfish king by asking him to double a portion of rice every day for 30 days in order to feed the hungry.
Read MoreKing’s Chessboard
When the wise man refuses to accept a reward for his service to the king, the king insists and so the wise man asks for a payment of rice for each square of the king’s chessboard–the amount to be doubled each day. Soon the royal granaries are almost empty–will the proud king concede that he…
Read MoreSystems Thinking Playbook
This book has become a favorite of K–12 teachers, university faculty, and corporate consultants. It provides short gaming exercises that illustrate the subtleties of systems thinking. The companion DVD shows the authors introducing and running each of the thirty games.
Read MoreCreative Learning Exchange
Simulations from Creative Learning Exchange.
Read MoreSystems in Motion books
This dynamic set of books consolidates the powerful lessons about oscillations in one place! This series of lessons (also online) allows students to explore and see the deeper nature of what is causing particular behaviors. Help students discover the iceberg…. Purchase one or the whole set!
Read MoreOnline Simulations for STEMAZing Shape of Change workshop
Lessons and materials presented at the Exploring Systems workshop.
Read MoreExploring Systems
Brought to you in collaboration with Systems Thinking in Schools, Waters Foundation and the Creative Learning Exchange, this workshop was based on The Shape of Change AND The Shape of Change: Stock and Flows books “Change is all around us! One way to grasp how something is changing is to trace how it grows or declines…
Read MoreOptimal Robotics
Optimal Robotics at Palo Verde High Magnet School.
Read MoreThree Wheeler
From littleBits.
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