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| - Although this source is a brief summary of past OM challenges, the number of challenges is very extensive.
- "Thinking of a solution might be easy, but creating a solution that satisfies your expectations takes time." *
* "Long Term Problems." Odyssey of the Mind. 2006. Creative Competitions, Inc.. 18 Mar 2009 <Thinking of a solution might be easy, but creating a solution that satisfies your expectations takes time.>. | |
| - These two sites have 6 OM practice problems
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| - Lessons plans promoting creative thinking.
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| - Could be used as practice problems.
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| - Could be used as practice problems.
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| - Over 100 lesson plans for 5-8th graders.
- Suitable to an "academic student" based class.
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| - 12 lesson plans designed to enhance student appreciation for cross cultural understanding.
- Suitable to an "academic student" based class.
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| - Game simulation from the United Nations to promote better understanding of the challenges in dealing with world hunger.
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| - Many available, teachers citizenship, geography, history and media.
- Various episodes.
- Cost based program.
- Need to check our computer hardware.
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| - Students learning about cultures, geography, economics and the environment.
- Cost based program.
- Includes lesson plans.
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| - Created by MIT to help students develop programing language and to help promote 21st century skills.
- Builds mathematical computational ideas.
- Promotes creativity, collaborative skills, and systematical reasoning.
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| - Students experience the world of computer programming from products created by Lego Education.
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| - Theme based challenges designed to promote research, problem solving and engineering challenges.
- Competition based, 10 students to a team. Students create a robot that solves a particular challenge.
- Overview of Lego League from Wikipedia
| - Students have 10 weeks to solve a challenge.
- Schedule: August to January.
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| - There are a large number of international collaboration opportunities that are available to enable our students to collaborate in a learning based situation.
- Choices of topics and venues are extensive.
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| - Students will research and then design a building using the Google Sketch Up 3D modeling tool.
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