Lesson Idea | Design Thinking Project Ideas for Elementary Classrooms

Design thinking is an iterative, human-centered process that is most often used to solve a need or problem. Design thinking consists of 5 main stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

In today’s blog post, Maddie is sharing an in-depth example of a design thinking activity to try with your students for back-to-school.

Maddie will walk you through step-by-step how to implement a design thinking project in your elementary classroom. You can teach this lesson tomorrow!

Then, Maddie will also share a list of other project ideas that will help build community in your elementary classroom.

While Maddie created this activity for the start of the school year, you can implement the project any time you’d like!