Taking Making Into Classrooms BC version – This toolkit is for educators taking up the ADST curriculum (design thinking & making) with their kids.
Taking Making into Classroom: Ocean Toolkit 2nd Edition (English)
This toolkit is for educators looking to foster ocean literacy and stewardship.
Making the Case for Making
Hosting a Maker Day
Design Challenge 33: Helping Our Friends, the Bats
Bats are valuable members of our communities.They are good neighbours because they can consume their body weight in mosquitos! They are natural predators of many of the night flying insects that bite us and carry disease.They also help to maintain the balance of nature because they consume many lawn and garden pests.
Taking Making into Challenging Contexts
This toolkit is for Educators working in learning contexts with limited or no learning resources. It introduces Design Thinking & Making as a way to support active learning and develop contextually and culturally relevant resources for classroom.
Design Challenge 32: Helping Our Friends, the Wrens
There are a number of small birds that used to live in our meadows, marshes, and forests. Now that we have built our homes and communities in their former habitats, we need to enjoy those small birds to return and live amongst us. Small birds, like the House Wren (https://www.birdvancouver.com/b_house_wren.html), are valuable friends. They help control the spread of weeds by eating the seeds and they maintain a balance of nature by eating pests such as bugs, worms and mosquitos.
Design Thinking as Research
Using Design Thinking to Support Research
Design Challenge 31: Up-cycling Fashion
One of the growing trends in fashion is called up-cycling. Up-cycling gives old or discarded clothing a better purpose through a process which converts it into something useful and often beautiful.
Design Challenge 30: Outdoor Learning Spaces
Students have limited opportunities to learn outdoors. For example, one school representative reported four picnic tables for 1,250 students. So when these students might have times during the day to enjoy the benefits obtained from learning outside, there were few places to sit or study or enjoy a conversation. While picnic tables have typically been used as outdoor furniture, they are not the most
flexible or comfortable form of seating. Also, they are not necessary ergonomically sound or easily moved! Over time, schools would like to increase outdoor learning opportunities by creating learning spaces that support learning, healthy lifestyles, and fitness.