These creative STEAM activities are thoughtfully co-designed with public library professionals, MIT researchers, and PLIX learning designers.
Using a framework of creative learning pedagogy, these activities aim to bring communities together through lifelong learning. Tried and true, use them as they are or adapt them for the interests of your library patrons (of all ages!).
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✂️ Try an activity with the PLIX team in our monthly activity workshops
Play and adapt familiar games to learn the FUNdamentals of artificial intelligence!
Create your own rules for tracking data that is meaningful to you.
Learn the basics of circuits while creating beautiful, interactive works of art!
Bring the physical world into interactive stories, animations, and games on mobile devices with easy on-the-go creative coding.
Do you eat with your ears? How can we encourage healthy eating through sound?
What technologies and techniques can we use to build our inward-looking senses and enhance everyday skills for personal growth?
Explore a branch of mathematics that's profound, yet accessible to creative learners
Combine the expressive flexibility of poetic language and local data research skills to encourage a re-imagination of maps and renewed understanding of place
Imagine and design interactive, inflatable creations using recycled materials—like chip bags!
Explore and create new inventions, experiences, and flavors to enhance the future of dining in outer space!
Combine storytelling, coding, and making and bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds
Develop your patrons' landscape literacy and environmental appreciation through hands-on exploration, data collection, and creation
This is a series of workshops for exploring outer space environments using small, instrument- and sensor-laden spacecraft
Explore our ✨ community pinboard ✨ to see how your peers adapted these activities for their library settings!
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