Workshop and Lesson Ideas Archives

Blog Post, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Project-based Learning/Integrated Studies, Workshop and Lesson Ideas

Sustainable Building Workshops with St. Benedict’s

Jan 17, 2020

In 2018 we had the great pleasure of working with the dynamic Delia Kench and the staff of St Benedict’s on a three-day workshop that aimed at encouraging learners to think deeply, plan strategically and explore the skills associated with design – engaging some of the transferable skills valued in…

Blog Post, Project-based Learning/Integrated Studies, Workshop and Lesson Ideas

The Evolution Game

Jan 16, 2020

Learners at Sacred Heart College discover the principles of evolution by natural selection from the bottom up by playing a MindBurst boardgame. The Evolution Game was originally developed for the Integrated Studies workshops on the 4th Industrial Revolution at Sacred Heart College. It was focused on engaging learners in knowledge…

Blog Post, Creativity/Innovation, Workshop and Lesson Ideas

Throwing the Bones: superstition or information technology?

Jan 15, 2020

MindBurst has been exploring a wealth of knowledge resources from Africa that have been overlooked by our curricula. Colonial ideas have reduced many valuable practices like African divination systems to primitive superstition. This is a product of arrogance and ignorance combined. We asked ourselves: What if we reconsidered ‘throwing the…

Blog Post, Project-based Learning/Integrated Studies, Workshop and Lesson Ideas

Garbology

Jan 14, 2020

The tables are covered with thin plastic sheets like those in an evidence lab. Before each chair sits a pair of latex gloves, and on the floor next to each table waits a black dustbin bag. This is the scene that has faced learners and teachers as they arrive…

Blog Post, Critical Thinking Skills, Transferable Skills, Workshop and Lesson Ideas

Building a Control Panel of the Mind

Jan 13, 2020

This lesson was inspired by something the motivational speaker, Anthony Robbins, said: Questions are the control to your own experience of life … What makes the biggest difference in life? It’s not the events that shape your life. It’s how you evaluate them. If you change your questions, you…