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Artistic voices shine in every medium, letting creativity take center stage! Learners express themselves through music, theater, visual art, design, and performance. It’s all about exploring feelings, telling stories, and making something meaningful!

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Our World Worldwide Day of Play: Test and Refine

STEM • Arts

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Grades 3 - 5

Our World Worldwide Day of Play: Test and Refine

By Nickelodeon + Mizzen Education

3 - 5

Youth collaborate as they support one another to develop the most fun, most exciting games for the Worldwide Day of Play. Youth test their designs as both Player and Observer, receive feedback and refine their games in anticipation of the big reveal.

This is activity 11 of 12 in the Nickelodeon Our World: The Play Lab Module.

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Our World Worldwide Day of Play: Test and Refine

STEM • Arts

1h•Grades 3 - 5

Project Funway (Team Building) Games

Arts • Leadership and Teamwork

30m

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Grades 3 - 12

Video

Project Funway (Team Building) Games

By !Mpact Players

3 - 12

30m

Using toilet paper, tape, streamer, and cups, become a fashion icon and strut your stuff down the catwalk!

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Project Funway (Team Building) Games

Arts • Leadership and Teamwork

30m•Grades 3 - 12

Clay Slab Construction Faces

Arts • Literacy

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Grades K - 8

Clay Slab Construction Faces

By OregonASK

K - 8

Students sculpt clay faces using a simple slab technique and air-dry clay.

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Clay Slab Construction Faces

Arts • Literacy

1h•Grades K - 8

We Can Help the Planet!

Nature and Wildlife • Arts

45m

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Grades K - 2

We Can Help the Planet!

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 2

45m

Children learn about ways they can help the planet by listening to a teacher read a picture book on the subject, then creating posters to illustrate what they learned.

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We Can Help the Planet!

Nature and Wildlife • Arts

45m•Grades K - 2

Beyond the Headlines: Color Stories

Digital Media and Communications • Arts

30m

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Grades 3 - 5

Beyond the Headlines: Color Stories

By PBS

3 - 5

30m

Dive into the colorful world of emotions and branding! Students get hands-on with colors, decode logo meanings, and craft a captivating color story for their news show. It's market research like never before!

This activity can be completed as a standalone lesson. It is best completed as part of SRL’s Beyond the Headlines 4-part series. This short series is also the first section of SRL’s First Module From Concept to Screen: Building Your News Hour. The module is broken into three sections. The first two contain lessons that can be completed as standalone activities or as part of a series. All three sections converge to provide a powerful and fun introduction to producing and hosting news shows. The module is followed by a second that deepens student knowledge and skills.

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Beyond the Headlines: Color Stories

Digital Media and Communications • Arts

30m•Grades 3 - 5

Gallery Walk (Grades K-2)

Arts • Literacy

45m

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Grades K - 2

Gallery Walk (Grades K-2)

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 2

45m

Children look at a virtual art gallery from the Tate Gallery called “Who Is Gillian Ayres?” and describe what they see through sketching, writing, discussion, and art creation.

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Gallery Walk (Grades K-2)

Arts • Literacy

45m•Grades K - 2

Prototype a Transportation Vehicle/Vessel

STEM • Arts

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Grades 3 - 8

Prototype a Transportation Vehicle/Vessel

By Rediscover Center

3 - 8

In this activity, students will create prototypes of transportation vehicles. This project was inspired by Rosie Revere, Engineer, written by Andrea Beaty, and illustrated by David Roberts.

Rosie Revere, Engineer is a story of a young girl who dreams of becoming an engineer. We can all take a lesson from Rosie to realize that dreams, professions, skills, and passion are gender neutral. With the help of a wonderful role model in great-great Aunt Rose, Rosie realized that she should celebrate her failures and not hide her inventions! In this story, Rosie engineers a helicopter to make her Great Aunt Rose's dreams come true: to fly. With her inspiration, let's prototype our own transportation vehicle or vessel.

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Prototype a Transportation Vehicle/Vessel

STEM • Arts

1h•Grades 3 - 8

Indoor-Outdoor Theater Voices

Arts • Literacy

45m

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Grades K - 2

Indoor-Outdoor Theater Voices

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 2

45m

Children use tongue-twisters to experiment with modulating their voices. They progress from a soft whisper to a stage whisper and then up to a stage projection.

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Indoor-Outdoor Theater Voices

Arts • Literacy

45m•Grades K - 2

The Big Easy: Day 13 Lesson

Arts • Literacy

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Grades 3 - 8

The Big Easy: Day 13 Lesson

By Jazz at Lincoln Center

3 - 8

Welcome to Lesson 13 of Jazz at Lincoln Center's module, "The Big Easy"! Students choreograph expressive dances inspired by fictional neighborhood, infusing movement with narrative and emotion.

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The Big Easy: Day 13 Lesson

Arts • Literacy

1h•Grades 3 - 8

Food Tycoon (Team Building) Game

Arts • Career and Future Readiness

30m

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All Grades

Video

Food Tycoon (Team Building) Game

By !Mpact Players

All Grades

30m

Earn cash, customers, and compliments at your newly-created restaurant featuring your famous signature dish and motto!

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Food Tycoon (Team Building) Game

Arts • Career and Future Readiness

30m•All Grades

Design a New Toy

STEM • Arts

45m

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Grades 6 - 8

Design a New Toy

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45m

Students brainstorm and sketch ideas for new toys. Then they make a prototype from simple materials and present it to the group.

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Design a New Toy

STEM • Arts

45m•Grades 6 - 8

Making Comics Part 3: Talking, Thinking, Dreaming

Arts • Literacy

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Grades 3 - 12

Making Comics Part 3: Talking, Thinking, Dreaming

By OregonASK

3 - 12

Talking, Thinking, and Dreaming are some of the ways that action unfolds in comics. Students have a chance to think about all the ways that language is used in comics, from lines that show action to the bubbles that show what characters are thinking and saying.

This is part 3 of 7 in a series. Provide context by first facilitating Making Comics Parts 1-2, and then afterward, Making Comics Parts 4-7.

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Making Comics Part 3: Talking, Thinking, Dreaming

Arts • Literacy

1h•Grades 3 - 12

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OnTRaC: Using Theater to Explore Careers in the Arts

Arts • Career and Future Readiness

3 Items

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Grades 9 - 12

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OnTRaC: Using Theater to Explore Careers in the Arts

By ArtsConnection

9 - 12

OnTRaC: Using Theater to Explore Careers in the Arts is a series of art-led activities that encourage young people to identify careers in the arts and creative fields. Students begin by identifying arts careers represented in their personal networks and within their own communities, as well as arts and creative fields that they're interested in learning more about. Then, they use improvisational theater activities to practice interview skills - for any school or job interview. Find a structure and framework to support young people to host a Visit with an Arts Professional. OnTRaC uses theater techniques as an entry point -- students engage in ice-breaker activities, role-play and other activities to increase skills in support of college and career readiness, including first impressions, networking and interviewing skills.

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OnTRaC: Using Theater to Explore Careers in the Arts

Arts • Career and Future Readiness

Grades 9 - 12

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Mizzen Summer Sizzle

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

16 Items

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All Grades

Collection

Mizzen Summer Sizzle

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

All Grades

Join Mizzen and our partner organization for summer learning! This playlist for all ages is a highlight reel of activities from Mizzen's Summer Sizzle features. Continue your summer learning with !Mpact Players, Jazz at Lincoln Center, National Wildlife Federation, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, reDiscover Center, and Mizzen with the list of activities below.

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Mizzen Summer Sizzle

Arts • Digital Media and Communications

All Grades

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STEAM Discovery & Learning with Mizzen Education

STEM • Arts

19 Items

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All Grades

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STEAM Discovery & Learning with Mizzen Education

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

All Grades

This playlist will ignite curiosity and creativity for grades K-12 with a lineup of specially-curated STEAM activities! From mind-bending math puzzles and hands-on science experiments to coding adventures and imaginative art projects, each activity is a new gateway to discovery!

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STEAM Discovery & Learning with Mizzen Education

STEM • Arts

All Grades

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15-30 Minute Activities for Busy Summer Days

Leadership and Teamwork • STEM • Arts • Social and Emotional Awareness • Literacy

12 Items

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Grades K - 8

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15-30 Minute Activities for Busy Summer Days

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 8

Need quick summer camp activities that are easy to lead? These 15-30 minute low-prep activities are perfect for transitions, schedule gaps, rainy days, and last-minute plan changes. Designed for summer programs, they keep youth engaged without adding stress to your day.

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15-30 Minute Activities for Busy Summer Days

Leadership and Teamwork • STEM • Arts • Social and Emotional Awareness • Literacy

Grades K - 8

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Creativity: Play

Arts • STEM

3 Items

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Grades K - 2

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Creativity: Play

By VentureLab

K - 2

Play and being playful are considered cornerstones of creativity and idea generation. There is significant evidence that many ideas for new products and services were developed through playing around with ideas, materials, and products. Play itself gives us a fresh perspective, which is often critical in solving problems and being innovative. Play also helps us better understand the world around us because we can explore things in a fun way - we can make and build, create new worlds and personas, play new games, and break the rules, without fear of consequences. Play helps entrepreneurs innovate because it's risk-free-there's no judgment or failure when you're playing.

In Activity 1, students will be using their imaginations to transform everyday objects into something different and playing through design challenges during Activity 2. Students will rotate in teams to four different stations with a challenge to create something at each. Finally, Activity 3 will involve creative play as students create a menu and play food for an alien planet. To close out the activity and lesson, students will role play waiters/waitresses and customers at each other's diners.

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Creativity: Play

Arts • STEM

Grades K - 2

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STEM Activities for K-5th Grade at Home or in Small Groups

STEM • Arts

11 Items

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Grades K - 5

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STEM Activities for K-5th Grade at Home or in Small Groups

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 5

This playlist is a great mix of engineering and science activities that are easy and fun for home or small groups of kids k-5.

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STEM Activities for K-5th Grade at Home or in Small Groups

STEM • Arts

Grades K - 5

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Nickelodeon Our World: The Play Lab

STEM • Arts

12 Items

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Grades 3 - 5

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Nickelodeon Our World: The Play Lab

By Nickelodeon + Mizzen Education

3 - 5

Attention, Funologists! Nickelodeon's Our World is calling on young innovators to join them in their Play Lab to help design thrilling new games for Worldwide Day of Play. This adventure starts in the with exploring a variety of games to uncover what makes them fun and exciting. Equipped with these insights, participants will then craft their own unique game from scratch, aiming to make it a success on the big day. This innovative learning journey creates experiences that improve youths' health, wellbeing, and agency. Join us to collaborate, innovate, and turn fun into reality!

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Nickelodeon Our World: The Play Lab

STEM • Arts

Grades 3 - 5

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Creativity and Play (Grades 6-12)

Arts • STEM

2 Items

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Grades 6 - 12

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Creativity and Play (Grades 6-12)

By VentureLab

6 - 12

This is a series on play and being playful, considered cornerstones of creativity and idea generation.

In the first activity, "Play Stations," students are provided with the opportunity to play and reconnect with their own innate creativity.

In the second activity, "Wacky Inventions," students work in groups to use existing products and objects to come up with (and then act out) the wackiest inventions they can think of.

Why is play important? There is significant evidence that many ideas for new products and services were developed through playing around with ideas, materials and products. Play itself gives us a fresh perspective which is often critical in solving problems and being innovative.

Play also helps us better understand the world around us because we can explore things in a fun way - we can make and build, create new worlds and personas, play new games and break the rules without fear of consequences. Play helps entrepreneurs innovate because it's risk-free—there's no judgment or failure when you're playing.

Using play and being playful as a tool for developing creativity can improve one's ability to generate ideas and solve problems. Often, to be able to come up with lots of ideas people need to be given permission to play around and be free from judgment!

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Creativity and Play (Grades 6-12)

Arts • STEM

Grades 6 - 12

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Clay Sculpting Activities for 3rd-5th Grade at Home

Arts • Literacy

8 Items

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Grades 3 - 5

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Clay Sculpting Activities for 3rd-5th Grade at Home