Education

Giving Youth Control with Project-Based Learning

Engage with the components of project-based learning to learn ways to support giving youth control.

Project-Based Learning: An Overview

Engage with the components of projects-based learning to learn ways to support giving youth control.

Tinkering

Learn how tinkering is important to learning in computer science and prepare to engage youth in directing their learning.

Creating My Project

How to provide opportunities for youth to direct and manage their own learning and explore strategies to help young people learn to be problem solvers and contributors to computer science.

Identify Connections to Prior Knowledge

Participants will watch the Presenting a Challenge Video-Based Learning Module and complete the Bridges worksheet to better connect everyday experiences to STEM.

Improving Connections

Design dough creatures to learn to connect youths’ prior experiences to STEM activities.

Make It Relevant

Brainstorm science practices in order to add more opportunities for youth to connect the work of scientists to their everyday activities.

Seeing Patterns

Learn how to help youth reflect and process experiences with patterns and trends in data to assist them in computational thinking.

Any Student can be Inspired by the Possibilities of Computer Science

Watch a video to learn how youth can be inspired by the possibilities of computer science.