This site from Access Excellence explores how, as an educator, you can incorporate critical thinking skills into the classroom. Content focuses on how to cover content so that students can grasp information, engage with the teacher, read...

Northwestern University frames lessons which bring computational thinking enhanced activities into STEM classrooms.

Design and build a small alarm that is easily hidden. Think of places you would like to hide an alarm.

The book is always better, or is it? Students will compare and contrast a book and a movie using the critical thinking questions included on this site. Also included is a list of children's books that have been made into movies as well...

An interesting way for students to dissect current events in the classroom. This lesson plan has students look at bias and develop critical thinking skills in order to digest the news media.

This challenge is to design and build a sturdy emergency shelter that can fit one person and easy to build. Are you up to the challenge?

This challenge is to design and build a tool that can take a core sample from the center of a potato. Are you up to it?

This challenge is to design and build a cushion system that can safely land an egg dropped onto the floor from three feet up. Are you up to the challenge?

Can you make a balloon hover in one spot and move without you touching it when you create air currents? Give it a try!

Your challenge is to design and build a rubber band-powered car that can crawl across the floor like a moon rover travels across the moon. Are you up to the challenge?

Can you build a rubber band-powered, paddle boat that paddles across the water? Give this a try and have a paddle race with a friend.

This challenge requires you to modify a paper cup so it can zip down a line and drop a marble onto a target.

This challenge is to design and build a crane and determine how heavy a load it can lift.

This challenge is to build a dance pad that sounds a buzzer or flashes a light when you dance on it.

Can you design and build a watercraft that will keep 25 pennies afloat for at least 10 seconds? Give it a try!

It's your job to design, build, and test a landing module that will provide a safe touchdown for your astronauts (marshmallows). Can you do it?

Can you design and build a robotic arm that can lift a cup off the table? Check this out and see!

Design a way to launch ping pong balls high into the air, test it, and make changes if needed.

Use your creativity to design and build a paper table, at least 8 inches tall, that is strong enough to hold a heavy book. Challenge your friends to see whose table can hold the most weight.

Use a balloon to build an air-powered rocket and launch it to see if you can hit a target.

Create your own 4-wheel balloon cars with simple household items and race them across the floor.

Make your own 2-wheel, air-power cars and race them or play games with them. Balloons and straws are them main components.

Design and construct an environmentally safe holder for a six-pack of cans that is sturdy and easy to carry.

Show your creativity by designing and building a device that will launch confetti to your target!