Think!

A Program Designed to Encourage Kids to Think Outside of the Box

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Week Thirty-Six -- Magazines

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Give your student one magazine. Give them 2 minutes to cut out as many phrases as they can. At the end of 2 minutes, tell them to put the p...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Kool Krazy Kaleidoscopes - Solutions

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We had some magnificent entries this week. Moomintroll and Snufkin both began with a layer of shiny clear plastic with a layer of black pap...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Week Thirty-Five -- Kaleidoscopes

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Use the following materials to make your own kaleidoscope. clear plastic a clear plastic sheet protector (it is doable if you don't hav...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Giant Geometrics Solutions -- Week Thirty-Four

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Orca and Alce joined us for the first time this week, creating some amazing structures -- a cube/triangular prism and a square/pyramid. You...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Week Thirty-Four -- Geometrical Shapes

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Place a box/bag of straws and a box of paperclips on the table. Tell your students to make the largest geometrical shape that they can (pre...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Let it Snow Solutions -- Week Thirty Three

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We got a great solution this week from Boo and Zee. Check out their video here .
Thursday, April 9, 2009

Week Thirty-Three -- Snow Machines

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Wishing there was still snow on the ground? Well, Using tongs, 2 forks, a ruler, two pencils, rip up some paper and make some 'snowball...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Sticky Solutions -- Week Thirty-Two

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Gerrick did a magnificent job with this challenge. Hope you are proud! To read more, go here. Boo and Zee also made excellent edible art! ...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Week Thirty-Two -- Rice Crispy Art

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Make some rice crispy treats or similar marshmallow cereal treat then tell your students to make an animal using the rice crispies. When you...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Week Thirty-One Solutions: Houses and Huts

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Once again, Snufkin and Moomintroll beat everyone to the punch! You guys should be proud of your creative solutions! They're magnificen...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Week Thirty-One - Houses

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Build a house that is at least 9 inches long and 9 inches high using: 1 package of chewing gum, 1 paper cup (if you don't have one handy...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Week Thirty Solutions - Precious Puppets

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Boo and Zee at Journey into Unschooling made a video of their puppets! Finding the limited amount of tape to be the biggest challenge, Zee...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Week Thirty -- Puppets

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Using the following materials, design a puppet that moves in at least two different ways. It may NOT be a hand puppet. 6 straws or pencils...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Cool Crazy Cantilevers -- Week Twenty-Nine Solutions

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Jake built a canteliever 45 inches from the counter edge. He used a 1/4 of a packet of spaghetti and a 1/4 of a roll of tape. Cool! Boo and...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Week Twenty-Nine -- Crazy Cantilevers

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Put a box of spaghetti and a roll of scotch tape on the table and tell your students to construct a cantilever that extends as far as possib...
Monday, March 9, 2009

Nail Structure Solutions

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Harrison did a marvelous job with this open-ended challenge. Check out his suspension contraption! Congratulations on your clever solution...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Week Twenty-Eight -- Nails

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You will need lots of straws, 5 inches of tape and 15 3-inch nails. Build a structure with your nails that will hold as many straws as poss...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Tremedous Tool Bridges

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Zee did an amazing job with his tool bridge. You can read more about it here. Here are Ross (10yo), Sadie (8yo), and Marcy (6yo) with thei...
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