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Building Creative Minds: Parent's Guide to Growth Mindset and Asking Better Questions

Foster creativity, curiosity, and persistence in your child by asking open-ended questions and promoting a growth mindset. Learn 21st-century thinking skills for the future.

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Building Creative Minds: Parent's Guide to Growth Mindset and Asking Better Questions

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  1. Unit 2 • Asking Better Questions & Motion • Module 2 • The Creative • Parent’s Toolbox

  2. Growth Mindset • Fixed Mindset • What you will learn

  3. Building Creative Minds for the Future • The basic skills needed for tomorrow are the “higher level” ones of • creativity, curiosity & persistence. • Fostering these skills is not just the school’s responsibility. • It is also the parent’s.

  4. 21st Century Thinking Skills

  5. Grow your child's mind

  6. Talk to your child.

  7. Asking • Open-Ended Questions • that do not have • oneright answer buildscreativity.

  8. Growth Mindset • Fixed Mindset • Why are open-ended questions good for your child?

  9. Open-ended questions provoke thought

  10. Growth Mindset • Fixed Mindset • Wait 5-10 seconds after asking a question

  11. Types of questions

  12. Growth Mindset • Fixed Mindset • Prepare some good questions

  13. Practice Asking Open-Ended Questions

  14. Motion • and Machines

  15. A roller coaster doesn’t have an engine. How does it go so fast?

  16. Basic ideas An object in motion tends to stayin motion An object at rest tends to stay at rest ... unless a force acts on the object

  17. Forces • change • Motion

  18. Motion Transfer Machine!

  19. Move!

  20. Put learning objective here • The Sultan’s Elephant

  21. Long Ma the Mechanical Dragon breathes fire & smoke - all through mechanisms

  22. Some more mechanisms that use cranks and cams

  23. Looking at Mechanisms

  24. You can change a rotary motion into an up & down motion using cranks and cams • Notice where the hole is placed in the “cam”. Would the stick move up and down if the hole was in the center? • Why do you think we need to put a “slide”?

  25. Cams of all shapes

  26. Belt & Driver Pulley • Notice the speed of the red disc. Is it going faster or slower than the blue disc? Why do you think that happens?

  27. The Motion of Flowers

  28. The outer cells grow faster than the inside ones

  29. Get ready for the challenge. Prepare some open-ended questions • Which do you think is better? (Judge/Compare) • What do you think? (Opinion) • How did you do this? (Create) • Why do you think so? (Defend) • What do you think will happen? (Predict) • If . . ., then . . .? (Cause & Effect)

  30. A mechanical story: The Sultan’s Elephant & the Little Giant Girl

  31. Congratulations! • You just finished the second module!

  32. Pick one challenge

  33. How do we know that the Earth is moving?

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