Get Active
Compare active and passive learning and convert passive learning activities to more active ones in order to engage youth in active learning.
Learning Activity, Training Guide, Video
Effective Strategies for Giving Youth Control
Learning Activity, Training Guide, Video
Giving Youth Control with Group Projects
Develop a list of strategies they would like to implement in order to give youth control of their learning.
Learning Activity, Video
Tinkering
Learn how tinkering is important to learning in computer science and prepare to engage youth in directing their learning.
Learning Activity, Training Guide, Understanding Computer Science
Make It Relevant
Brainstorm science practices in order to add more opportunities for youth to connect the work of scientists to their everyday activities.
Learning Activity, Training Guide, Video
Seeing Patterns
Learn how to help youth reflect and process experiences with patterns and trends in data to assist them in computational thinking.
Learning Activity, Training Guide
What are Service Learning Projects?
Frontline staff and volunteers will seek out community partners and utilize their strengths in STEM to enhance programs. Connect youth to the community through service learning projects of local interest that promote STEM inquiry.
Learning Activity, Training Guide
Building Relationships with STEM-Rich Partners
Frontline staff and volunteers will seek out community partners and utilize their strengths in STEM to enhance programs. They will identify shared goals and develop partnerships with STEM-rich local business/industry.
Learning Activity, STEM, Training Guide
Break It Down
The facilitator works to enable active learning as youth work in small groups and use the strategies of computational thinking to design and describe their own unique monsters.