Build a light that celebrates the concept of stained glass. Choose from a variety of artist inspired themes or suggest one that your classroom would like to commemorate or honor. Decorate your light with artist inspired materials, designs, and patterns. Understand and  demonstrate the difference between transparent, translucent, and opaque. How does light affect color and pattern?

Designs that we have done in the past include:

Chagall, Matisse, Alma Thomas, Joan Miro, Ruth Asawa, and Kieth Haring. We can create a light to suit your pedagogic and design curriculum.

With your own set of acrobats, design, color, and have fun with a theme of your choice. You can also design both sides with opposing themes. Then stack, balance, and construct with these figures. Challenge a friend, build a domino inspired track, see how high and how many you can balance at once. This is a fun challenge and can be fun for all ages.

As a beginning to Bauhaus Design we have created dancers that are inspired by the Bauhaus Ballet that used color and shapes to perform the classic form of ballet with a signature twist. Students will use shapes to design their own dancers. They will choose between a circle, triangle, and square to create a head, abdomen, and hips. They will decorate with patterns on all sides. We will show them pictures of the original Bauhaus dancers and use the shapes to translate to dancers and the art of dance.

Ever wonder why different birds' beaks look the way they do? Why are some bird's beaks pointy? curved? long? Short? The same questions hold for animals, plants and humans (not beak shapes of course – but other features.) Discuss bird beak adaptations and learn about Darwin’s discoveries and observations of Finches during his expedition to the Galapagos Islands in 1835.

Feeders influence the world of birds. You must understand the habits and needs of the birds you wish to help. Which seeds are most nutritious? Which bird likes which seed? Are there things that I should not serve? Where should I locate the feeder?

So many birds, so many rules you need to understand.

Build a Birdfeeder that you can hang in your backyard, in a park, or on a balcony. Learn how to keep it clean and functioning optimally. Decorate your construction to personalize it.

When the primary colors of light, red, green, and blue are mixed, white light is produced. By looking at the shadows cast when an object blocks one or more of these color components, you can observe both the additive and subtractive processes of color mixing. Instead of subtracting light via an absorbing pigment, the object's shadow "removes" the component color from the "white" light. For example, the yellow shadow is the result of blocking the blue led and only allowing red and green to mix. Similarly, yellow pigment absorbs blue light and reflects red and green.

Bridges are a natural laboratory of engineering: they test the strength of materials and the durability, connections, patterns of distributing loads, shifting loads and environments. Construct model bridges that help you identify the many challenges that bridges must master.

A Keystone bridge which can hold more weight than you'd imagine and a puzzle bridge designed by Leonardo daVinci. Both are built without glue and still hold strong.

What's the best way to understand a bug? Look at it carefully.

Consider the parts of a bug. Six legs, eyes, abdomen, antennae, wings (or not), spiracles, color to hide (or not). Study models and pictures and construct your own bug to understand the names and purposes of the parts.

Teachers can choose one bug for all to make, or choose for a mix and each student builds a different one. The choices are Bee, Butterfly, Ant, or Mosquito

A complete light laboratory in a box. Construct a box that captures and focuses images. Use it as a camera obscura...an artist's drawing tool. Or make it into a model of the eye. How does it work similar to the eye and what is it missing?

Then rearrange the elements. Direct a light source on an image inside the box to project the image into a darkened room – recreate one of Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest leaps of invention: a projector.