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Effective Strategies for Giving Youth Control

Encouraging Youth Choice

Work through the Youth Voice and Choice Video-Based Learning Module and create an action plan to give youth more control of their STEM experiences.

Examples in Action

Watch the Giving Youth Control in Investigations Video-Based Learning Module to learn how to give youth more control in their STEM learning experiences.

Giving Youth a Role

Make Your Own Rules activity to learn how to support giving youth more control over their learning.

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.

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.