PBS
Pbs: Frontline: Develop Innovative Solutions to Local Problems
Think outside of the box! A lesson helping students consider innovative ways of solving problems communities might experience, such as the ability to provide clean water to residents.
PBS
Pbs: Frontline: Identify Common Steps Taken by Social Entrepreneurs
What is a social entrepreneur? This learning opportunity provides insight and understanding of how the practice of making silk nearly died, but re-emerged after a someone recognized the problem and used innovation couple with...
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National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Art in Peacemaking [Pdf]
A guide to integrating conflict resolution education into youth arts programs. This program was created to give after school youth teachers tools to help youth solve disputes they see on a daily basis.
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Art in Peacemaking [Pdf]
A guide to integrating conflict resolution education into youth arts programs. This program was created to give after school youth teachers tools to help youth solve disputes they see on a daily basis. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
Other
Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Skills Map for the Arts [Pdf]
Arts education is part of the backbone of the 21st Century skills movement. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills had designed a map that provides examples of collaboration, communication, creativity, innovation, critical thinking,...
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Skills Map for the Arts [Pdf]
Arts education is part of the backbone of the 21st Century skills movement. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills had designed a map that provides examples of collaboration, communication, creativity, innovation, critical thinking,...
Other
Ncesse: Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
A competition for students in Grades 5 and up, in which they design an experiment that would fly in space under conditions of microgravity. Winners in local competitions are chosen to submit their designs for inclusion in a...
Other
Plane Math: Activities: Flight Path
Students work in groups to find the shortest path between two cities. The activity explores problem solving, number relationships, estimation, and measurement. The resource consists of a lesson plan, group activity instructions, lesson...
Other
Microsoft Research: Fuse Labs: Kodu Game Lab
Using an artistic visual language, Kodu helps students create a world and an actual video game within that world. Learn basic coding and programming principles. Download the game lab or teacher lesson plans for free.
Other
Ncte Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment
An overview of the updates for the national standards for English Language Learners in a 21st century community. Set by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, this site includes elements of...
Other
Ncte Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment
An overview of the updates for the national standards for English Language Learners in a 21st century community. Set by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, this site includes elements of...
Other
Project Euler
A collection of challenging mathematical and computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. The use of math skills will help students arrive at efficient methods, while the use of...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creative Problem Solving With Ezra Jack Keats
Contains plans for eight 50-minute lessons that use Ezra Jack Keats books to teach predicting, comparing and contrasting, and problem solving. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF...
Other
Kid's Page Archive: Free Printable Math Worksheets
Great source for math worksheets on all four whole number operations, fractions, and miscellaneous arithmetic topics. Could be used to assess basic arithmetic skills for areas that need remediation.
Other
Casting Out Nines: A Math Computation Checking Strategy
It's a mathematician's dream come true. An easy trick for checking mathematical computations, without a calculator! Believe it or not, it works with all four operations.
Other
The Futures Channel: Problem Solving
"Connecting learning to the real world" is the goal of the Futures Channel. Through the use of short videos, teachers can integrate real-world examples of how math and science are used in everyday life. Complete teaching guidelines...
Other
Montana State University: Strange Dead Bird
An online interactive mystery where students use their science knowledge to solve the death of some strange birds. Use the clues given to use the scientific method to figure out why the animals are getting sick.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Arizona Mesa: Problem Solving Lesson Plans [Pdf]
Website includes lesson plans for high school problem-solving projects. Lesson plans are very detailed and include introduction to activity, timeline, and closure activity. Also included are student handouts. This website also contains a...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Problem Solving Plan
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of problem solving. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It" button and...
University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged: Primary Enrichment Program [Pdf]
This unit introduces students to some of the building blocks of how computers work without using a computer at all. The lessons keep students actively involved in communication, problem solving, creativity, and thinking skills in...
Other
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Problem Solution
Working with students on identifying problem and solution in their reading? Here is a simple concept, with a printable chart, for teaching and reinforcing this concept. Applicable for any subject area, could be used (modified) at any level.
Other
Iste: Computational Thinking for All
Advances in computing have expanded our capacity to solve problems at a scale never before imagined, using strategies that have not been available to us before. This professional article introduces educators to the idea of teaching...
Google
Google for Education: Machine Testing
Students test the functionality of a mysterious new machine whose operations are described to the class, but cannot be opened up for further investigation. Students come up with a testing strategy for this machine, test it according to...
Northwestern University
Northwestern University: Ct Stem Project: Computational Thinking: Lessons
Northwestern University frames lessons which bring computational thinking enhanced activities into STEM classrooms.