Junior Couch Potato Lab
Grade 1-3 Episodes
Design Thinking: A Method for Creative Problem Solving
Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation—anchored in understanding customer’s needs, rapid prototyping, and generating creative ideas—that will transform the way you develop products, services, processes, and organizations.
Coding the Future II: Actua
Coding the Future survey, we take a closer look at the impact of household income on coding and digital technology attitudes and opportunities.
Coding the Future: Actua
It is important that youth not only know how to use these technologies but understand how they work and have the skills to produce new technologies in the future. This is digital literacy.
About Innovation and Design
Innovation is difficult to define precisely but for most people it involves “thinking outside the box” and “trying something different” in order to make things better. We might be enhancing a process, a tool, a system or an environment but the bottom line is that we’re not content with the status quo and want to make things better. And so we innovate..
A Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinking
Have you found yourself asking, “what is design?” Sometimes the best way to understand design is to just dive in and experience it!
Seed Bombs
Bees are very important in our ecosystem as they help pollenate the plants around us and help with the growth of our foods and crops. In order to help the bees pollenate the world around us, create some seed bombs with wild flowers and plant them in planter boxes.
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