This is the fifth post in the Playful Thinking series, exploring Harvard Project Zero’s Visual Thinking Routines and how they can make learning more purposeful, more playful, and more powerful for every learner. That One Time The Oceans Changed Color We were at the end of our solar system unit in science. Students had just […]

*This is the fourth post in the **Playful Thinking** series, exploring Harvard Project Zero’s Visible Thinking Routines and how they can make learning more purposeful, more playful, and more powerful for every learner.* The Student Who Learned Nothing We had just finished our solar system unit. The one where we watched a film crew drive

This is the third post in the Playful Thinking series, exploring Harvard Project Zero’s Visual Thinking Routines and how they can make learning more purposeful, more playful, and more powerful for every learner. That One Time the Solar System Wouldn’t Fit in the Classroom We had just finished watching a series of videos about the

Playful Thinking Series — Post 2 This is the second post in the Playful Thinking series, exploring Harvard Project Zero’s Visual Thinking Routines and how they can make learning more purposeful, more playful, and more powerful for every learner. That One Time My learners Thought a Catapult Was a Ladle We were in the middle

Making Thinking Visible and Learning Playful: An Introduction to Visual Thinking Routines   This is the first post in a new series: Playful Thinking — exploring Harvard Project Zero’s Visual Thinking Routines (VTRs) and how they can make learning more purposeful, more playful, and more powerful for every learner. The Day a Student Asked If

Teacher colleagues stop me all the time to admire this tool belt — because all my classroom tools are right at my fingertips. It gives me total mobility, so I have the freedom teach from anywhere with everything I need.  Meet the Teaching Toolbelt: A Small Change with a Big Classroom Impact As a traveling