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Student Design Lab Collective Blog
Rolling Into New Things
Using human-centered design thinking we built a game fit for our teacher’s needs: both single-player and multi-player, fun, engaging, and easy to follow.
Family Game Night: Will You Take The Risk?
To make a family board game that’s fun for everyone, follow the five stages of Design Thinking: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.
Math Tutoring and the ESL Student Challenge
A bilingual tutoring program could help ESL students with their math while they get used to the English language.
ScreenFest Coming Near You (hopefully)
Our easy-to-navigate website raises teenage awareness about skin cancer by focusing on risk factors, prevention, and screening.
Classroom Chaos, Meet the Butterfly Organizer!
We created Butterfly: a classroom organizer that speeds set up and breakdown, dramatically extending the math manipulatives lesson time.
Teen Athletes, Don’t Be Naive, Wear Sunscreen.
Teens don’t pay attention to skin cancer prevention. We created a series of sport-specific videos that target athletes to wear sunscreen when training outdoors.
PhiloMath: A Website for Studying Math Manipulatives
We created a direction-based website called “PhiloMath” to improve third-graders’ understanding of math manipulatives using instructional videos.
The Evolution of SprayTheRays
Introducing SprayTheRays Challenge: an interactive game where two teams of two compete to cover one teammate in sunscreen as fast as possible.
Denominator Diner: Learning Fractions With Donuts
We focused on creating a manipulative game with donuts to keep students super engaged. The use of real food to teach math concepts was a major success.
When Life Hands You Grapes You Make Skin Cancer Ads
Teens have little knowledge about the risks of sun damage, causing them to care less about their future health. We developed an ad strategy to change that.