5-Day Design Thinking Challenge For Students

Includes 1 Professional Development Hour

Grade Level: K-6

With 5 activities that will engage young and old in design thinking, your students won't realize they're learning!

Prototyping with Purpose: Human-Centered Engineering Design Challenges

Includes 2 Professional Development Hours

Grade Level: 4-8

This series of 7 challenges engages students in the positive power of engineering and human-centered design.

Reinvent the Room: All Three Mini-Courses

Includes 3 Professional Development Hours

Grade Level: K-12

Get access to all three of Melissa's courses on remote learning.

Reinvent the Room: Synchronous and Asynchronous Lesson Development

Includes 1 Professional Development Hour

Grade Level: K-12

In this course, Melissa breaks down ways to design and develop synchronous and asynchronous remote learning experiences for your students that get students turning on their cameras and engaging with their learning. 

Reinvent the Room: Mastering Tech Tools

Includes 1 Professional Development Hour

Grade Level: K-12

In this course — Melissa breaks down ways to design and develop synchronous and asynchronous remote learning experiences for your students that get students turning on their cameras and engaging with their learning.

Reinvent the Room: Building Community in the Remote Classroom

Includes 1 Professional Development Hour

Grade Level: K-12

Building community online is ongoing work. In this course, Melissa shares activities and ideas to get students coming together and creating community in their remote classrooms.

Restructuring Distance Learning: All Three Mini-Courses

Includes 3 Professional Development Hours

Grade Level: K-12

Get access to all three of Melissa's second installment of courses on remote learning.

Coming October 2020

Restructuring Distance Learning: Streamline Communication

Includes 1 Professional Development Hour

Grade Level: K-12

Learn how to organize your Google Classroom for distance learning and hybrid by creating instructional learning hubs for both. Melissa shares tips and tricks to create video instruction and communication systems that limit confusion for both students and parents. 

Coming October 2020

Restructuring Distance Learning: Go Beyond the Chat 

Includes 1 Professional Development Hour

Grade Level: K-12

In this course you'll learn how to go beyond the basic get-to-know you games, Using simple tech tools that support student engagement and actual classroom examples, you'll learn how to get students to unmute and engage. 

Coming October 2020

Restructuring Distance Learning: Redefine Routines and Tools

Includes 1 Professional Development Hour

Grade Level: K-12

In this course, Melissa walks you through how to set the tone for the week by utilizing organization tools that help everyone. This course includes how to organize for hybrid teaching and tips to ensure student success with the instructional tools you need.  

A Maker's Approach to Design Thinking

Includes 3 Professional Development Hours

Grade Level: K-8

In this course we will share our unique approach to design thinking, introduce a variety of specific activities, and cover practical ways to bring this thinking into your classroom through your morning routine, passion projects, and genius hour.

Infusing Your Curriculum with Inquiry

Includes 3 Professional Development Hours

Grade Level: K-8

In this course we will focus on how you can bring inquiry, making, and constructivist learning into every subject matter that you teach. We will cover the pedagogical imperative to shifting into this approach, specific activities you can do, ways to assess student learning, and ways to keep your excitement about this work alive well after the course is over.

3D Printing Prosthetics to Teach Engineering, Anatomy, and Empathy

Includes 36Professional Development Hours

Grade Level: 4-8

Created in collaboration with e-NABLE, this course engages teachers in powerful professional development that enables them to engage learners in empathy, problem-solving, and skill building as students learn about limb differences, anatomy, 3D printing, and assembling prosthetic hands. 

Make it, Race it!

3 Professional Development Hours

Grade Level: 2-8

Students will learn to design, build and test their very own racing vehicle in this hands-on learning project that introduces design thinking, woodshop tools & techniques, and a launching point for making.

Make It, Play It!

3 Professional Development Hours

Grade Level: 2-8

Students will learn to design, build and test their very own game in this hands-on learning project that introduces design thinking, woodshop tools & techniques, and a launching point for making.

Make It, Wearable Electronics!

3 Professional Development Hours

Grade Level: 2-8

This course will introduce students to circuits as they use various electronic components combined with textiles to assist in the creation/modification of smart clothing.

Gain Access to Our Comprehensive Curriculum

Get access to our comprehensive resources on making. This includes information on tools, techniques, and materials as well as a host of activities and projects that you can use in your classroom.