Design Thinking in the Classroom: Easy-To-Use Teaching Tools to Foster Creativity, Encourage Innovation, and Unleash Potential in Every Student

Whether your students are tackling project-based learning or developing solutions in the STEM maker lab, design thinking will help them be more innovative. The design-thinking process, practices and mindsets teach 21st-century skills such as adaptability, collaboration and critical thinking.

The design thinking program described in this book helps develop students' mindsets in a way that is more conducive to producing innovative solutions. It allows students to apply their creativity to tackle real-world issues and achieve better results through the use of its five learning phases:

- Empathize
- Define
- Ideate
- Prototype
- Test