Looking for ways to spark student creativity during STEAM activities? Learn more about placemat instructions and how you can use them in your classroom and share your ideas with other educators in the discussion area.
LEGOⓇ Education and the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) have teamed up to co-produce Activity Briefs – easy-to-use, printable 1-page activities that inspire students to create their own solutions to open-ended challenges. Activity Briefs are based on research from Tufts CEEO on “placemat instructions”, a new kind of instructional tool for educational robotics challenges aiming to support solution diversity, a measure of creativity.
LEGOⓇ Education and the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) have teamed up to co-produce Activity Briefs – easy-to-use, printable 1-page activities that inspire students to create their own solutions to open-ended challenges. Activity Briefs are based on research from Tufts CEEO on “placemat instructions”, a new kind of instructional tool for educational robotics challenges aiming to support solution diversity, a measure of creativity.
How Can Student Creativity Be Cultivated With Open-ended Design Challenges?
Introduction: Looking for ways to spark student creativity during STEAM activities?
Inspiring Students To Think And Act Like Engineers
Part 1: Educators overwhelmingly wish for their students to gain essential, future-proof practices and skills - how to think critically, be creative, work effectively with others, and believe in themselves.
What Is A Placemat Instruction?
Part 2: Placemat instructions are a simple, one-page brief for a design challenge that can similarly be used in multiple ways to scaffold student and teacher participation throughout the activity.
Placemat Instructions In Action
Part 3: Wondering what using placemat instructions in your classroom would look like?
3 Ways Placemat Instructions Suppport Teachers
Part 4: Teachers share how placemat instructions benefit classroom practice.
How to Create Your Own Placemat Instructions
Part 5: Ready to create placemat instructions for your class? Start with our template and a few helpful tips.Discussion: Sparking Creativity
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