The need for robust resources for afterschool learning has never been greater. These days, we feel a responsibility to support academic learning, but we know that unless our activities are truly fun and engaging, participants may vote with their feet and look elsewhere.
To help you motivate your afterschoolers and extend learning beyond the school day, Thinkfinity has developed new modules that weave together dynamic resources in a cohesive, multidisciplinary set of activities.
Our Program Modules:
- stimulate creativity and appeal to different learning styles
- empower young people to explore and experiment
- culminate in a final presentation and celebration of learning
- enable afterschool practitioners to focus on motivating students rather than instruction.
The modules below have been put together using resources from across the Thinkfinity Content Partner collections. Each includes descriptions of what participants will learn and do, the materials and time needed, youth development principles served, real-life and career linkages and academic standards alignment.
These modules are designed to be adaptable so that you can use more or fewer instructional materials and make different choices to meet the needs of your program and participants. We provide guidelines for age-appropriateness, but some of the activities, if adapted, can also work well with participants who are older or younger. Materials and technology requirements are kept to a minimum, or made optional, so that these activities may be implemented in a range of settings. And, while these modules were developed with a medium-sized group (i.e., 9 to 15 participants) in mind, both larger and smaller groups can enjoy working together on these projects.