Our digital Think Studios invite students to learn, explore, discover, and challenge themselves. Each program is designed to help students unleash their creativity and exercise their imaginations. All Think Studios directly address Florida State Standards.
Pre-K
Use Your Words
Sometimes it can be hard to find the words to describe your emotions. Join us to create a puppet and explore the ways in which we can use our words to explain how we feel.
Superstar Civil Engineers
Meet a professor of civil engineering, then grab your hard hats to get to work! Learn the steps in the engineering process and apply them to design and build a model city.
Kindergarten
Celebrate Diversity
Friendships are made stronger by our similarities and differences. Observe and celebrate what makes each of us special and unique, then create a self-portrait and contribute it to a special class gallery!
Observations in Nature
Go on an adventure in nature! Apply your five senses to practice keen observation. Create your own observation notebook, then sketch and press Florida fauna in your book. Hold on to your observation notebook to continue applying observation skills all year long!
Superstar Civil Engineers
Meet a professor of civil engineering, then grab your hard hats to get to work! Learn the steps in the engineering process and apply them to design and build a model city.
1st Grade
Draw Your World-ish
Discover your inner artist in this celebration of creativity and resilience inspired by Peter H. Reynold’s book Ish. Read the book, share your ideas, and draw your own ish world in this art-based program.
Losing My Marbles
Learn about the scientific process through this STEM-based Think Studio. Join us on an outdoor adventure while we explore the effects of gravity, force, and friction! Then, conduct your own experiment, testing the effects that friction has on your own marble run.
No Limits
We believe it is important to expose kids to many different subjects and to allow them to explore what is interesting to them. So, we created this STEM-focused experience to teach kids about a very important woman in STEM and to exercise their STEM skills with a bridge-building challenge!
You Can Code!
Meet a video game developer to learn more about how she uses coding skills to create games. Then, learn about commands and sequences and storyboard a game of your own. Put all of these things together to create and play your own game.
2nd Grade
Story Quilt Art
Explore the Depression-era African American culture and beautiful patchwork borders in Faith Ringgold’s beautifully illustrated book, Tar Beach. Then, create your own quilt square inspired by the art in the book. Put all the squares together to create a class quilt!
How Your Body Works
Step into this Think Studio to learn about the muscular, skeletal, and respiratory systems in your body. Visualize the movements of your body while learning the hustle. Then create a working replica of your lungs.
You Can Code!
Meet a video game developer to learn more about how she uses coding skills to create games. Then, learn about commands and sequences and storyboard a game of your own. Put all of these things together to create and play your own game.
3rd Grade
Cranes for Peace
Learn the legend of origami cranes and listen to a read-aloud of Molly Bang’s The Paper Crane. Then learn how to fold your own paper cranes. Continue to work together as a class throughout the year to fold 1,000 Cranes for Peace.
Refraction Action
Have you ever wanted to control light? Turn it into different colors? Learn all about the Law of Reflection to find out how you can make light bend to change its direction and even change its color! Then, bend light into colorful patterns to make your own rainbow art.
Solar Energy Superheroes
We know climate change can be scary to learn about, so let’s meet a climate-change scientist who is working to explore the effects of climate change and help combat it. Then, learn how to harness the power of renewable resources to build a solar updraft tower.
4th Grade
Blackout Poetry
Learn all about theme in this poetry workshop. Enjoy a poetry reading and participate in discussions about the author’s feelings and what they are conveying with their written art. Then, repurpose recycled articles to create your own works of found poetry!
Building Kinetic Bridges
Do you have the energy to participate in this Think Studio? Join us as we explore various forms of energy including electrical, potential, and kinetic energy. Build a kinetic energy bridge and watch the transfer of energy first-hand!
Solar Energy Superheroes
We know climate change can be scary to learn about, so let’s meet a climate-change scientist who is working to explore the effects of climate change and help combat it. Then, learn how to harness the power of renewable resources to build a solar updraft tower.