Projects & Design Thinking
HTH Student Projects: This website displays multiple projects that are examples of the student work of High Tech High School students. Teachers can utilize this to get ideas from other teachers and see how project based learning enables students to learn and create an impact.
Más projectos (in Spanish): The Princess of Girona Foundation is devoted to helping others towards their personal and professional growth. This program provides training, awards and it gives the young generation the chance to be involved in real-life activities. Here are projects that were initiated by the foundation.
MyPBLWorks- Projects: An expanding library of project ideas that are standards aligned and that cover a range of grade levels.
Project Ideas for Service Learning: A variety of projects to keep students engaged in the community.
Social Justice Projects in the classroom: Edutopia features successful social justice projects require raising students’ awareness about issues and providing advocacy and aid opportunities.
100 Global projects: We need ambitious education innovations; innovative, impactful and scalable approaches that are effective also in low resource environments and help our children flourish in life. In this section, explore education innovations recognized by HundrED as well as innovations from our Spotlight and Open platforms.
Design for Change Spain (option to translate to English): Over the years, the non-profit organization has established itself as a benchmark in social entrepreneurship , creating a connected network of teachers and students from 400 educational organizations , thanks to the fact that it provides a pedagogical framework where it is possible to integrate other methodologies: a structure that provides of tools to face challenges following a defined process inspired by Design Thinking.
Design for Change USA: Design for Change USA is the national affiliate of Design for Change World. When young people participate in DFC, they are joining a powerful coalition of others around the world in saying, I CAN!
Design Thinking as a Framework for Developing and Leading New Approaches to Learning: This article on design thinking looks at fostering a design thinking mindset and helping students to engage in the power of a communal experience points to a broader responsibility to commit to authentic problem-solving, adaptability, resilience, and empathy as a visible embodiment of that commitment. Our students today will become compassionate citizens of our world tomorrow and design thinking is one method to help future fit this undertaking.
Design Thinking Has a Pedagogy Problem... and a Way Forward: This website includes design thinking which requires practice and continual learning to master, so how can we teach it effectively? By tailoring design thinking education to new learners and infusing learning science, we can use sound pedagogy to set the stage for longer-term, more effective use of the method.
Design Thinking Hawaii: This blog gives the latest information about the Hawaii’s Design Thinking initiative. Design Thinking Hawaii is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to applying design thinking to make Hawaii a better place.
The Next Generation of Changemakers, Anne Arundel County | Youth Venture: Teens at Old Mill Middle School collaborate as changemakers to present their three projects. These three projects aimed to build a better life and it focused on unhoused people, pollution and discrimination.
What is Human Design?: This article delves into the details of Human-Centered Design, based on a philosophy that empowers an individual or team to design products, services, systems, and experiences that address the core needs of those who experience a problem.
21 Tips for Connecting Learners to their Community: Many schools will already be connecting students with their local Place and helping them discover how to make their own place in the world a positive one. Here are some pointers drawn from the experiences of real schools, students and teachers to help plant the seeds of Place in new school communities.
25 Community Service Ideas for Schools: Whether you have the resources for a yearlong project or simply want to spend an afternoon serving those around you, one of these 25 community service ideas for schools is sure to help your students learn the importance of caring for those around them.
Written Lessons and Units
A Collection of Resources for Teaching Social Justice | Cult of Pedagogy: This article goes in-depth on how to practice social justice with students. It doesn't’t only give insights on how to enforce social justice and the mindset that goes with it, but it also gives interesting resources, lesson plans and activities that teachers can use.
Elementary School Lesson Plans- Roots for Shoots: Lessons focused on helping the animal community, human community, and environment. Classroom lesson plans creatively infuse philanthropy, caring, and civic engagement into K-12 academic content and serve as a foundation for a student-centered approach. Search lessons by grade level, subject area, content (academic and affective), teaching standards, time of the year, and topics.
Empathy, Global Understanding, Mindfulness, and Compassion: Step into the world of Ghani with BetterWorldEd.org. Ghani is a rice grower, community builder, and advocate in India. Practice empathy, global awareness, mindfulness, curiosity, and more as you learn about his life, and help your students build on all of their magical SEL skills in a captivating way.
Learning to Give- Lesson Plans/Units: A variety of lesson plans for incorporating service-learning, to support youth in learning through volunteer service.
Sanford Harmony: Sanford Harmony offers units that seeks to teach diversity and inclusion, empathy and critical thinking, communication, problem solving, and peer relationships among students. The units include home school connection ideas and home activities.
Social Justice Lesson Plans, Resources and Activities: These prek-12 social justice resources address topics like activism, the power of protest, helping students express their feelings, building an environment of respect.
They help students learn about social justice, and the critical topics it encompasses, like gun violence prevention, climate change and anti-racism.
Classroom Practices
Education for Life and Work - A Guide for Practitioners: This guidebook describes effective teaching approaches and analyzes deeper learning in the context of English language arts, mathematics, and science. It also identifies the kinds of changes in educational systems necessary to give all students the opportunity to develop the competencies they need in today’s world.
Questions Are More Important Than Answers: This website includes a video that focuses on empowering students and bringing in the aspects of field trips to incorporate life lessons. Constructing knowledge in an environment the student feels safe to explore, gives them confidence to ask questions and take risks thus becoming engaged in their learning.
Responsive Classroom - YouTube: An outnumber channel that is dedicated to the Responsive Classroom approach in education. It gives teachers a vast collection of resources that they can use with their students to build interaction as a learning foundation.
Smart Hearts: Social and Emotional Learning Overview | Edutopia: In school districts from New Haven to Anchorage, social and emotional skills are being taught and assessed just like skills in math and reading are.
Student Engagement - Resource Roundup: This article is a resource for keeping students captivated and ready to learn. This list of articles, videos, and other resources offers strategies and advice that can also help with engagement in the classroom.
Zoom: An Active Approach to Learning: This website is full of fun and engaging activities for students to do independently or as part of a group. Using a multidisciplinary, content-based format, these resources teach children how to take an active approach to learning—to ask questions, create, experiment, and have fun.