The University of British Columbia
UBC - A Place of Mind
The University of British Columbia Vancouver campus
Teacher Education
  • Home
  • About
    • Meet the Team
    • Special Projects
  • Resources
    • STEAM Resources
    • Add Resource
    • Suggest A Resource
    • Add Video
    • TeachBC
    • School District Resource Links
  • Ask a Question!
  • Lesson Planning & Pedagogy
    • Teacher Professional Blogging Sandbox
  • Workshops & Events
Scarfe Digital Sandbox
CSS MenuMaker
  • Home
  • About
    • Meet the Team
    • Special Projects
  • Resources
    • Remote Teaching & Learning Resources
    • STEAM Resources
    • School District Resource Links
    • TeachBC
  • Planning & Pedagogy
  • Ask a Question!
  • Workshops & Events

design thinking

Design-Based Learning: STEM and Simple Machines

Design-Based Learning: STEM and Simple Machines

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, engSTEAM, mathSTEAM, sciSTEAM | Tagged with ADST, create make innovate, design challenge, design thinking, design-based learning, science, simple machines, STEAM, STEM

Watching children play, particularly very young children, we can see they behave scientifically. Children observe and collect. They wonder and deduce, and they’re methodical. They collaborate – sometimes! – and when they’re puzzled, they experiment and make adjustments. At whatever age STEM learning occurs, though, make no mistake: it is real STEM learning, not mere […]

Photo by Maria Georgieva, available for free download at pexels.com

Design-Based Learning (DBL) and Challenge Learning

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, artSTEAM, K-3, sciSTEAM | Tagged with ADST, create make innovate, design challenge, design thinking, design-based learning, STEAM

“… we learn by doing.” So observed Aristotle in his study on how we should live, The Nicomachean Ethics, a work that is named – so scholars think – out of fondness for Aristotle’s father and son, both of whom were named Nicomachus. While obviously not a new concept to educators, the principle of learning-by-doing […]

Making Connections: playing with electrical circuits

Making Connections: playing with electrical circuits

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, artSTEAM, K-3, sciSTEAM | Tagged with ADST, create make innovate, design thinking, electricity, paper circuits, science, squishy circuits, STEAM

This week in Create, Make, Innovate, we explore electrical circuits: squishy and paper-based. Play-based, hands-on learning activities appeal to our creativity and our curiosity.


Back to top
Creative Commons License

Scarfe Digital Sandbox by Scarfe Digital Sandbox is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Log In

Teacher Education Program & PDCE
Faculty of Education
Vancouver Campus
155 - 2125 Main Mall
Neville Scarfe Building, UBC
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Website educ.ubc.ca
Email scarfe.sandbox@ubc.ca
Find us on
 
Back to top
The University of British Columbia
  • Emergency Procedures |
  • Terms of Use |
  • Copyright |
  • Accessibility