Classroom Activities

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Classroom Activities​

Empowered’s no-cost activity library offers customizable, hands-on activities that can be used by any educator – regardless of the subject, curriculum, pedagogy, or methodology being used in any setting, grade, or class type. How can we say that? We’re teacher-validated.
 
Educators have collaborated with our staff and each other to create a library of 180+ experiential activities that can be tweaked and personalized for individualized learning. Each of our activities, available at no financial cost to you, includes:
  • Activity Overviews
  • Recommended Materials
  • Approximate Timing
  • Suggested Steps
  • Potential Debrief Questions/Discussion Topics
 
We offer activities, all of which can be used based on concept (vs. subject matter) in any classroom, in the following three categories:

Activity Categories

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Bell Ringers

5-15 min. activities that start or further a discussion, introduce a topic, or change the mood of a room.

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Skills Development

15-120 min. session-fillers that challenge notions, explore real-world ideas, and create lasting knowledge.

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Capstone Projects

Mutli-session, cumulative explorations of high-level concepts that develop and leverage critical thinking.

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Creativity Minute

Students use their imaginations to see more than just shapes - recognizing them as items that create opportunities, solve problems, and more.
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Innovation Activity

Students are challenged to creatively collaborate so an existing, seemingly unrelated, product can be a solution to a stated problem.
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Popcorn CODEC

Students, through a "popcorn-style" discussion, are asked to connect an event, a market concept, and a Foundational Principle.
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Prospective Business

Students, using design thinking and other lessons and activities, will identify a market "need" and then ideate and develop practical solutions.
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Roll the Dice

Students will role the dice to determine a pre-set activity they will perform to represent a principle, with classmates guessing their intent.
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Speak Out Cards

Students are given cards with random prompts, of varying degrees of "difficulty", written on them that they will use to practice public speaking.
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Towers

Students will learn the importance of principled interactions and strategic thinking in an attempt to build the best building for their client.
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