THINK: The Process of Innovation
Using the THINK app (free for iPad and 10" Android tablets), students will explore how progress is shaped through a common and systematic approach that follows a five-step process of Seeing, Mapping, Understanding, Believing and Acting (SMUBA). Your students will explore the process of innovation and participate in as many as three units, featuring hands-on lessons that will to help them become innovators in their own right and to take actions that can help them become forward-thinking citizens of the world.
THINK: A Film about making the world work better
This THINK video provides an overview of the THINK app and its accompanying lessons. Across a diversity of examples, the film reveals how progress was made possible by a combination of people and technology, and by taking a distinct approach to making the world work better -- seeing, mapping, understanding, believing and acting. Today, this very approach can be used to tackle challenges large and small.
Overview Lesson
 This lesson provides an overview of the concept and process of innovation, using the THINK app. |
Unit: Fight The Flu
 In this lesson, students will be introduced to the science of epidemiology, encouraged to think critically about how illness may spread in their own classroom, and investigate innovative technologies and methodologies that can help prevent, treat or control diseases |
 In this lesson, students will recognize that the term “map” does not just correspond to geographical information and will collect and represent data related to the spread of illness in the school. |
 In this lesson, students will use data they have collected and mapped to recommend and take specific actions related to disease prevention. |
Unit: Confronting Climate Change
 In this lesson, students will use the "Seeing" portion of the THINK app to understand the difference between climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation. |
 In this lesson, students will use the Understanding part of the THINK app to examine systems to learn why changes in precipitation may result in different impacts in different areas. |
 In this lesson, students will be creating actual useful climate change vulnerability assessment tools. |
