The Inquiry Cycle is a tool to support teacher and student learning—and to make that learning visible—all the while exploring the capacities associated with the Agency by Design framework for maker-centered learning.
Mechanical dissections are a practice that allows learners to discover the often hidden design of objects.
這思維習慣鼓勵學生思考在一個特定的系統裡不同人物的觀點。其目標是幫助學生理解基於在系統里的不同角色，不同的人物會有不同的思考、感受以及他們關心的事情。這個思維習慣培育學生思考觀點與角度，提出問題和明確下一步的研究。
"Agency by Design: Empowering Young People to Shape their Worlds" explores the ways in which educators can develop teaching strategies that support student agency through maker-centered learning experiences.
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This thinking routine helps learners to think in the past, present, and future, viewing their making in the context of a long-term and broad trajectory of learning. It is meant to cultivate an ongoing reflective practice in the classroom.
Students from King Middle School in Portland, Maine, explain the importance of looking closely in a maker-centered classroom.
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Things Come Apart, by Todd McLellan provided some inspiration for educators from Park Day School to explore the complexities of everyday objects with their second grade learners. In this picture of practice essay educator Jeanine Harmon shares the project.
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Participants at the Arts Education Partnership National Forum consider the role of the arts in maker-centered learning experiences.
This routine helps students explore complexity by encouraging them to look closely at the details of something, considering its various viewpoints, users, and stakeholders, and reflecting on their own connections and involvement with it.