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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:

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Any teacher is welcome to create and enjoy a free Empowered Hub account. Inside the Hub you’ll find classroom tools including:

180+ Customizable, Hands-On Activities;
Activity Creator AI to instantly create/enhance learning experiences;
Dozens of Classroom Resources that bring learning to life;
On-Demand and virtual Educator Events;
A collaborative, supportive Educator Community; and
Support from our fellow teachers and our staff.

Activity Categories

We offer activities, all of which can be used based on concept (vs. subject matter) in any classroom, in the following three categories:

Bell Ringers

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

Skills Development

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

Capstone Projects

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

SAMPLES FROM OUR LIBRARY

Try One of These Easy-to-Implement Activities

Bridge Crossing Conundrum

Students are challenged to think strategically to help get a team of explorers across a rickety bridge with limited time and just one torch.

Creativity Minute

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

Foundational Principle Face-Off

Students, through 1:1 match-ups, will determine the "most important" Foundational Principle noting the subjectivity of the decision.

Innovation Activity

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

Popcorn CODEC

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

Prospective Business

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

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.

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.

Subscription Box Design Project

Students use a variety of lessons and activities to explore target markets, design thinking, innovation, etc. to create a repeatable package of products.

Towers

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

Vacant Lot Growth Mindset Project

Students will learn how to engage the community in this exercise of replacing an underused, local space with a place for all to use and enjoy.

HERSHEY’s Market Research

Students are challenged to use basic market research concepts to concoct - and make - a sweet treat that meets the tastes of their customer.

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