Purposeful design projects
Ideas for giving students purposeful design problems and examples of student work that results.
Creative use of digital tools can engage students and help you integrate your iPads, PCs, or Chromebooks into the curriculum.
Design to solve a problem
Asking students to invent something to solve a problem is a great way to teach the design process and engage students in powerful work in your maker space or time.
How to support student thinking during the design process
Design to share experience and expertise
Ask students to design something that helps others benefit from this expertise.
Design to deepen understanding
Students apply what they have learned about animal characteristics and adaptation to create a new creature and introduce it to the scientific community.
Design to teach others
Teaching others is the best way to learn content and designing tutorials provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge while helping their peers.
Design to raise awareness
Put students in charge of informing others about important issues such as safety and digital citizenship.
Design to change behavior
Combine narrative, informational, and argument writing to get others to take action or change their behavior.
Mind Mapping
Students can use Wixie's mind mapping tools to brainstorm ideas and organize information. Combining text, visuals and connections in mind maps helps students show how ideas relate to one another.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Design Animal Masks
First grade shared what they learned about animals in their research unit at a wax museum this afternoon! Students made posters, dioramas, and shared animals facts. They made animal masks using Wixie! @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/ubTdayG745
— Belle View ES (@BelleViewES) April 12, 2023 -
Design Newsletters
Today we used Wixie to create a newspaper article about Earth Day and how we can help our planet! @CopperHillES @FlemRarSchools #wixie pic.twitter.com/jHYzegrYf6
— Jeff Moore (@MooreClassroom) April 20, 2023 -
Design Plant Posters
Spent time in @MsUm_in1st using #wixie! They were so creative with their plant posters! They are masterful when using the tools!!@Tech4Learning @montclair_elem pic.twitter.com/DIE4hQHOvo
— Tina Katz (@thefrogpond102) January 12, 2023 -
Design Circuits
Had fun hanging with a small group of 5th graders yesterday. Some @Tech4Learning #Wixie and circuits was a great way to end a Friday! @montclair_elem pic.twitter.com/AqzCowMyAQ
— Tina Katz (@thefrogpond102) January 7, 2023 -
Design to keep safe
Refecting on life in Library Land @HES_LMS! After learning about Wicked Weather,some students used WIXIE to create their Emergency Plans. And some students said "Ms. Campbell, we just want to read books for fun" Libraries in schools are more then books. #bcpslms @MrFilderman pic.twitter.com/NcWPOOIMQT
— Capathia Campbell (@HES_LMS) February 20, 2022 -
Design to honor
Using #Wixie to design a new memorial honoring our Veterans ?????? #VeteransDay18 pic.twitter.com/Lul0FbFMqt
— Ms.Plaugher (@plaugherLP) November 12, 2018 -
Design to show we care
Students used #wixie to design Thanksgiving letters for residents of a nursing home @QuarterfieldES pic.twitter.com/lUB63oqO3F
— Kristine Nellenbach (@Nellenbach_LMS) November 21, 2017 -
Design to inform
We used digital resources to research an animal. Then used Wixie to design an informative display about how the animal survives in its natural world. #ShakeUpLearning @VillaCrestaElem pic.twitter.com/rBLfhByCZZ
— Jennifer Gitelson (@Mrs_Gitelson) November 28, 2018 -
Design in response to literature
5th #sessharks share their Sternberg response on a Junior Great Book task to design a new space for the main character! #creative #analytical #choice #voice @ShannonLacross @VBGifted @StrawbridgeES pic.twitter.com/o9LT1oaYs5
— LWildman (@lesliewildman1) March 9, 2019
