Think about the different things that you learned in school and what has really stuck with you over the years. For many people, it is what we learned through projects. Project-based learning isn’t used as frequently as it should be in school, especially because most of us work on teams and projects at work. This type of learning is what best prepares us for the workplace and the future.
Want to help your kid have fun, avoid gifted kid burnout, and still learn something? Try these project-based learning activities:
Keep Them Short, But Detailed
The first thing you need to do is keep the project short enough that they can do it in a few sessions.
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Have Your Child Create A Menu
A great way to teach your child about math, nutrition, writing, and life is to have them plan out a balanced, healthy menu for the day. Give them guidelines that they can follow, such as they need to have a certain amount of calories. From there, have them plan out breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. They can make healthy meals while learning and building their Inventive IQ. MindFinity’s 5 Days of Play will get you started with games that can make cooking a fun learning experience, by transferring patterns from lessons to foods you learn to accelerate knowledge transfer and create new patterns in real time.
This will bring in an element of innovation and creativity to your cooking.
Want to add a gym element? Have them plan to burn calories! Use patterns of 2 and 3 to do it.
Create An Art Box
One of the best “projects” you can do is just fill a box with different art supplies that you can find around your home. Then, use something they are learning in school to have them create a project. For example, if they are reading a story about a musician, have them create their own instrument. If they are learning about the ocean, have them design a submarine. Have them use basic shapes to make new combinations and talk with them about what they did.
Write A Letter To Someone In Government
Is your student learning about government? Have them write a letter to someone they are learning about! While you are far more likely to get a response from your local mayor than you are someone in the federal government, allow them to choose someone to write. They need to have a point to their letter and maybe even propose a solution.
Your child will need to think about a problem, come up with a solution, and figure out how to explain it to that government official. Then, they will need to figure out where to send the letter and fill out the envelope.
Create A Volcano
This is one of the most iconic project-based learning activities that you can do with your child – and the kits are really easy to come by at any big box store. Volcanos are really interesting and the explosion is fun for kids to watch.
Make this a multimedia project by having them watch something on YouTube about volcanoes, build their own volcano, and cause the eruption. You can even have them help to clean it up by coming up with a plan to do so.
Design An Obstacle Course
Do you want your child to move around a little more? Get some sturdy furniture, outdoor toys, and a few surprise elements, and encourage your child to build their own obstacle course. Give them limits: it needs to have a certain number of elements, including specific movements such as jumping or balancing and take a minimum amount of time.
Of course, be prepared to run it with your child.
MindFinity Helps Kids Learn Through Games & Projects
Our award-winning program helps your children expand their brains and learn polymath thinking skills while dancing, singing, doing martial arts, and moving around! You get a new game each day of the week, which takes a few minutes a day. And you can expand on the games and have your child put their imagination to use and expand on projects that they are already doing. You’ll get some fun ideas as well!
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