Description: This activity is a creative approach for educators to express what failure means to them in their professional role. So throw a bunch material and adhesives out and get collaging.
Created by: Scott Family Amazeum and Crystal Bridges
Category: Setting Context
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What Do Kids Say About Failure?
Description: This “quiz” was used to spark a conversation around educator’s perspectives of failure.
Created by: Science Museum of Minnesota
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Would you rather…?
Description: This activity poses a question (or set of questions) that makes you choice between two options (e.g., “Would you rather eat a spoon of mayonnaise or a spoon of hot sauce?”). The resource provided here was framed around experiences with failure.
Adapted by: Scott Family Amazeum
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Four Corners: What does failure mean to you?
Description: Four corners is an activity that asks individuals to take a position on a specific topic, statement, word, image, and so forth. Once selected, individuals move to the corner of their choice to discuss their choice in relation to the three topics, statements, words, or images not selected. Each group justifies their decision to the whole group. In this example, the focus is on selecting an image that indicates what failure means to you.
Adapted by: Scott Family Amazeum
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Paper Hats
Description: This activity covers how we experience failure through the perspective of both educator and learner. It also supports a discussion around identifying open ended facilitation versus explicit direction.
Created by: Thinkery
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Pipe Cleaner Engineering
Description: The purpose of this activity is to (a) think about failure critically and (b) observe adults’ unstuck methods when creating a freestanding tower with twists and challenges.
Created by: Scott Family Amazeum
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Roller Coaster Challenge
Description: Educators engage in an activity to reflect on the actions they did during the course of the activity, as well as the actions of the facilitator during the course of the activity.
Created by: The Tech Interactive
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Straw Linkage Hands
Description: The purpose of this activity is to (a) reminder educators of how failure looks, feels, sounds–so that they can better recognize it in others, and (b) get educators used to the idea that failure can exist outside of themselves – to look at failure as an object and not an intrinsic part of who they are.
Created by: Montshire Museum of Science
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Build and Pass
Description: This activity will encourage communication and increase collaboration with one another through building upon educators’ creations and ideas.
Suggested by: Scott Family Amazeum
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One-Minute Drawings
Description: Think fast. Unlock your creativity. Get rid of perfectionism tendencies.
Suggested by: Scott Family Amazeum