What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...

What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...

Four resources make up the SEL toolkit for educators. Intended for those that teach kindergarten to twelfth grade, helpful files include a companion guide, presentation, reference list, and a one-page snapshot that neatly showcases the...

A comprehensive resource on invention, innovation, and creativity. Explores the field of product design, marketing, innovation strategies, collaboration of stakeholders, product life cycle, and Rogers' elements of innovation. Includes...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....

Building STEM centers that foster creativity doesn't have to be complicated. All you need is a smart layout that provides designated areas stocked with a wide variety of everyday materials. Here are seven easy STEM centers to include in...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....

Students are introduced to the world of creative engineering product design. Through six activities, teams work through the steps of the engineering design process (or loop) by completing an actual design challenge presented in six...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....

[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....

After virtually exploring galleries at the Royal Armouries Museum, students design and create a wall hanging for the museum entrance using textile techniques.

An online portal for designers, architects, illustrators, engineers, artists, and creatives of all kinds. Dexigner publishes the latest design news, events, competitions, books and resources. Covers almost any type of design one could...

Brainstorming is a team creativity activity that helps generate a large number of potential solutions to a problem. In this activity, students participate in a group brainstorming activity to generate possible solutions to their...

Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...

Collaborative generation of knowledge and high efficiency information flow allow for diversity, increased resilience, reliability and stability within an organization. Through participatory research, stakeholders can make full use of the...

An electrical generator is in essence a very simple device - magnets rotating within a coil of wire. To get a generator to work properly, one needs to make sure the coil and magnet orientation and rotation are correctly aligned. These...

Parabolic mirror surfaces are found wherever energy needs to be focused efficiently and accurately. You find them built into car headlights, spotlights, as well as astronomical telescopes. Here we explore the parabola in the design of...

An industrial designer shares his examples of products that are designed so well that it would be pointless to tinker any further with them. Teachers should be aware that one product is a handgun. Many of the others are examples of...

The best designs are usually the simplest, but just because they're simple doesn't mean they're easy to come up with. Here are seven examples of objects that aren't particularly sophisticated but have a subtle, genius simplicity to their...

People have been grappling with the question of artificial creativity- alongside the question of artificial intelligence- for over 170 years. For instance, could we program machines to create high quality original music? And if we do, is...

Integrating various creative formats with solid, researched fact, allows students to show what they have learned. The resulting "museum" can be shared with an audience in any of a number of ways. Includes handouts, rubric, and...

This brief page from the Washington Calligrapher's Guild gives several illustrations and explanations of calligraphy, lettering, and design. Teachers could use this as a short reference with examples.

A fantastic resource for future designers. Students can tap into their creative juices through various interactive activities and by learning about professionals in their field of interest. Design fields include fashion, graphic,...

Students explore the creative process and understand the invention/innovation process through examining how paper bags are constructed. Teams of students work cooperatively to design, innovate, and then build their own paper bag models...