Try a Free Classroom Activity

Choose a Sample from the Empowered Hub Library

Try Curious about how Empowered can help minimize prep and maximize joy in your classroom? Try a free classroom activity from our library. These examples were selected by our educators for the ease of customization and use.

If you and your students enjoy them, we then encourage you to join 17,000+ Educators using their free Empowered Hub account for unlimited access to our full library of 180+ experience-based lesson plans – with more added regularly – and our newest offering, an A.I. Lesson Plan Generator tool.

Empowered Activity 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.

Capstones

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

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.

Join the Empowered Community Today

Learn more about the ways we collaborate with and support educators.

Use any connected device to access all of our free resources – 24/7/265 – inside Empowered Hub.

ENJOY TRY A FREE CLASSROOM ACTIVITY? YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:

What's New at Empowered

ACTIVITY OF THE MONTH My Favorite Mistake

April 23, 2025

WHAT WE’RE READING NOW Shift This!

April 16, 2025

IGNITING SPARKS End-of-Year Inspiration for Students

April 9, 2025