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Write Postcards From Planets

Stories and Perspectives, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Write Postcards From Planets

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

In this activity, students conduct research about a planet, then use those facts to write a postcard telling of their journey to that planet.

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Should the Electoral College Be Reformed? (Grades 9-12)

We The People, Stories and Perspectives

Should the Electoral College Be Reformed? (Grades 9-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

55 Minutes

The Founding Fathers established the electoral college in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise between the election of the president by a vote in Congress and the election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Every state gets at least 3 electoral votes because a state's number of electors is identical to the total number of its senators and representatives in Congress. Seven states have the minimum 3 electors. Washington, D.C., also has 3 electoral votes because of the 23rd Amendment, which gave the nation's capital as many electors as the state with the fewest electoral votes. California has the most electoral votes with 55. Texas is next with 38. New York and Florida have 29 apiece. The founders were concerned that average Americans would lack enough information about the candidates to make intelligent choices. So informed "electors" would stand in for them. Has the electoral college become obsolete in the age of mass communication and a more educated citizenry? We will look at that question in this lesson.

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Build a Business Logo

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, Arts in Action

Build a Business Logo

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Lemonade stands, lawn service, and dog walking. These are all business ideas that most of us had at one point. Students collaborate to develop their own age-appropriate small business, designing an attractive and memorable logo for their business.

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What Is Pi?

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

What Is Pi?

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

In this activity, students will measure the diameters and circumferences of circles and then calculate their ratios, discovering that the ratio between the circumference and diameter is always the same.

The constant ratio is named after the Greek letter π, or pi. For most students, pi is their first example of an irrational number, or a number that is expressed as a non-repeating decimal. The value of pi is 3.1415926…and the digits continue without end.

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Memory and Place-Making

We The People, Belonging and Community

Memory and Place-Making

Pulitzer Center

K - 8

1 Hour

In this activity, students explore how enslaved people worked to stay connected to their cultures and homelands. They will read a short text illustrating this idea from The 1619 Project and discuss the importance of commemorating one's own cultural background, as well as learning about other cultures.

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Amazing Bodies! 2: Prototype Selection

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Amazing Bodies! 2: Prototype Selection

OregonASK

6 - 8

15 Minutes

Students brainstorm the pros and cons of their inventions, and how they can fix them.

This activity is Part 2 of 6 in the Amazing Bodies! series, with activities designed to build upon each another:

Amazing Bodies! 1: Prototype Brainstorm
Amazing Bodies! 2: Prototype Selection
Amazing Bodies! 3: Prototype Build
Amazing Bodies! 4: Prototype Test & Modify
Amazing Bodies! 5: Prototype Naming
Amazing Bodies! 6: Prototype Presentations

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Many Businesses, Many Models

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, Leadership and Teamwork

Many Businesses, Many Models

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

In this activity, students explore different business models and apply them to real-life examples. They begin by drawing a simple model of their own to understand the similarities and differences in business structures. They then break into teams to learn about a business started by a young entrepreneur. Using a worksheet describing the different types of business models, they match the appropriate model to the business they studied. Finally, they create a visual to explain the business model they studied and use it to share what they learned with the rest of the group.

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Speak and Listen (Grades 3-5)

Stories and Perspectives, Belonging and Community

Speak and Listen (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Students share details of their lives with one another, as well as stories, ideas, and plans for the future. Then they try to recall those details. This simple but effective activity builds speaking and listening skills while helping students learn more about their group.

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Make 3-D Paint

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Make 3-D Paint

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

In this activity, student pairs use flour and baking powder to make 3-D paint. Students paint words or pictures with the paint and then heat the paintings. The heat causes carbon dioxide to form, which makes the paint rise and get bubbly. This activity builds understanding of how heat promotes chemical reactions, and how flour and baking powder react to form carbon dioxide.

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Who Could My Customers Be?

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Who Could My Customers Be?

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

Students work together to design an online marketing plan to reach international customers. This activity builds research and problem-solving skills while also developing speaking and listening skills.

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Careers in Education

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, We The People

Careers in Education

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

Students will learn about education as a career by speaking with a teacher who has been invited to discuss their career with the group. Then, students will view a website to compare education to other possible careers.

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S.INQ Up Earth Sciences

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

S.INQ Up Earth Sciences

OregonASK

6 - 8

1 Hour

Students learn about the water cycle, detailing the ways that water changes states as it supports life on earth.

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My Life: Highlights Reel

Stories and Perspectives, Digital Voices

My Life: Highlights Reel

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Think of your life as an ongoing motion picture. There is so much to see, and every day is different. If you had to put together a highlights reel for your life, what would you include? In this activity, students decide just that as they make a slideshow "highlights reel" of their lives.

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Escape Room (Grades 3-5)

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Leadership and Teamwork

Escape Room (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Teams work together to solve clues and puzzles to escape from a room. This activity builds collaboration, creative thinking, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

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Highlighting Underreported Stories About Black Innovators

We The People, Stories and Perspectives

Highlighting Underreported Stories About Black Innovators

Pulitzer Center

6 - 12

1 Hour 30 Minutes

Students explore the meaning of the word innovator, analyze two stories about Black American innovators from The 1619 Project, and conduct their own research on underreported stories about Black American innovators. This activity is designed for two 45-minute periods or one 90-minute period.

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How Can I Successfully Complete My College Major? (Grades 9-12)

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, Leadership and Teamwork

How Can I Successfully Complete My College Major? (Grades 9-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

Students research college majors by identifying their own skill sets and personal attributes and exploring how their traits connect to a variety of college majors.

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Helping Underwater Animals and Plants (Grades 3-5)

The Natural World, We The People

Helping Underwater Animals and Plants (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Students learn about the importance of oceans to the health of the planet. They work together to promote ideas that protect underwater plants and animals in oceans while also helping to reduce global poverty. This activity builds research and cooperative learning skills. It also develops empathy and global awareness.

Discover Activity

Write Postcards From Planets

Stories and Perspectives, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Write Postcards From Planets

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

In this activity, students conduct research about a planet, then use those facts to write a postcard telling of their journey to that planet.

Discover Activity

Should the Electoral College Be Reformed? (Grades 9-12)

We The People, Stories and Perspectives

Should the Electoral College Be Reformed? (Grades 9-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

55 Minutes

The Founding Fathers established the electoral college in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise between the election of the president by a vote in Congress and the election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Every state gets at least 3 electoral votes because a state's number of electors is identical to the total number of its senators and representatives in Congress. Seven states have the minimum 3 electors. Washington, D.C., also has 3 electoral votes because of the 23rd Amendment, which gave the nation's capital as many electors as the state with the fewest electoral votes. California has the most electoral votes with 55. Texas is next with 38. New York and Florida have 29 apiece. The founders were concerned that average Americans would lack enough information about the candidates to make intelligent choices. So informed "electors" would stand in for them. Has the electoral college become obsolete in the age of mass communication and a more educated citizenry? We will look at that question in this lesson.

Discover Activity

Build a Business Logo

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, Arts in Action

Build a Business Logo

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Lemonade stands, lawn service, and dog walking. These are all business ideas that most of us had at one point. Students collaborate to develop their own age-appropriate small business, designing an attractive and memorable logo for their business.

Discover Activity

What Is Pi?

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

What Is Pi?

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

In this activity, students will measure the diameters and circumferences of circles and then calculate their ratios, discovering that the ratio between the circumference and diameter is always the same.

The constant ratio is named after the Greek letter π, or pi. For most students, pi is their first example of an irrational number, or a number that is expressed as a non-repeating decimal. The value of pi is 3.1415926…and the digits continue without end.

Discover Activity

Memory and Place-Making

We The People, Belonging and Community

Memory and Place-Making

Pulitzer Center

K - 8

1 Hour

In this activity, students explore how enslaved people worked to stay connected to their cultures and homelands. They will read a short text illustrating this idea from The 1619 Project and discuss the importance of commemorating one's own cultural background, as well as learning about other cultures.

Discover Activity

Amazing Bodies! 2: Prototype Selection

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Amazing Bodies! 2: Prototype Selection

OregonASK

6 - 8

15 Minutes

Students brainstorm the pros and cons of their inventions, and how they can fix them.

This activity is Part 2 of 6 in the Amazing Bodies! series, with activities designed to build upon each another:

Amazing Bodies! 1: Prototype Brainstorm
Amazing Bodies! 2: Prototype Selection
Amazing Bodies! 3: Prototype Build
Amazing Bodies! 4: Prototype Test & Modify
Amazing Bodies! 5: Prototype Naming
Amazing Bodies! 6: Prototype Presentations

Discover Activity

Many Businesses, Many Models

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, Leadership and Teamwork

Many Businesses, Many Models

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

In this activity, students explore different business models and apply them to real-life examples. They begin by drawing a simple model of their own to understand the similarities and differences in business structures. They then break into teams to learn about a business started by a young entrepreneur. Using a worksheet describing the different types of business models, they match the appropriate model to the business they studied. Finally, they create a visual to explain the business model they studied and use it to share what they learned with the rest of the group.

Discover Activity

Speak and Listen (Grades 3-5)

Stories and Perspectives, Belonging and Community

Speak and Listen (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Students share details of their lives with one another, as well as stories, ideas, and plans for the future. Then they try to recall those details. This simple but effective activity builds speaking and listening skills while helping students learn more about their group.

Discover Activity

Make 3-D Paint

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Make 3-D Paint

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

In this activity, student pairs use flour and baking powder to make 3-D paint. Students paint words or pictures with the paint and then heat the paintings. The heat causes carbon dioxide to form, which makes the paint rise and get bubbly. This activity builds understanding of how heat promotes chemical reactions, and how flour and baking powder react to form carbon dioxide.

Discover Activity

Who Could My Customers Be?

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Who Could My Customers Be?

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

Students work together to design an online marketing plan to reach international customers. This activity builds research and problem-solving skills while also developing speaking and listening skills.

Discover Activity

Careers in Education

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, We The People

Careers in Education

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

Students will learn about education as a career by speaking with a teacher who has been invited to discuss their career with the group. Then, students will view a website to compare education to other possible careers.

Discover Activity

S.INQ Up Earth Sciences

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

S.INQ Up Earth Sciences

OregonASK

6 - 8

1 Hour

Students learn about the water cycle, detailing the ways that water changes states as it supports life on earth.

Discover Activity

My Life: Highlights Reel

Stories and Perspectives, Digital Voices

My Life: Highlights Reel

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Think of your life as an ongoing motion picture. There is so much to see, and every day is different. If you had to put together a highlights reel for your life, what would you include? In this activity, students decide just that as they make a slideshow "highlights reel" of their lives.

Discover Activity

Escape Room (Grades 3-5)

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Leadership and Teamwork

Escape Room (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Teams work together to solve clues and puzzles to escape from a room. This activity builds collaboration, creative thinking, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Discover Activity

Highlighting Underreported Stories About Black Innovators

We The People, Stories and Perspectives

Highlighting Underreported Stories About Black Innovators

Pulitzer Center

6 - 12

1 Hour 30 Minutes

Students explore the meaning of the word innovator, analyze two stories about Black American innovators from The 1619 Project, and conduct their own research on underreported stories about Black American innovators. This activity is designed for two 45-minute periods or one 90-minute period.

Discover Activity

How Can I Successfully Complete My College Major? (Grades 9-12)

Future Ready: Learning and Earning, Leadership and Teamwork

How Can I Successfully Complete My College Major? (Grades 9-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

Students research college majors by identifying their own skill sets and personal attributes and exploring how their traits connect to a variety of college majors.

Discover Activity

Helping Underwater Animals and Plants (Grades 3-5)

The Natural World, We The People

Helping Underwater Animals and Plants (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Students learn about the importance of oceans to the health of the planet. They work together to promote ideas that protect underwater plants and animals in oceans while also helping to reduce global poverty. This activity builds research and cooperative learning skills. It also develops empathy and global awareness.

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CategoriesCollaboratorsExploreAll ActivitiesAll Collections

Community

Our StoryTeam MizzenEventsThe Mizzen Minute

Engage

NewsroomContact Us

Account

Sign InCreate an AccountMizzen for TeamsPrivacy PolicyTerms of Use

Copyright © 2026, Mizzen Education, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to empower, uplift and support out-of-school time educators.