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Game Critics Unite: Board Game Feedback Frenzy

Designed in January 2025 by Roland

Grade Level

High School

Initial ideas

DIY Board Game: Design your own board game. It can be themed around your favorite movie, book, or even a historical period.

Mocktail Lab: Chemistry Meets Creativity!

Designed in March 2025 by Isabel

Grade Level

Initial ideas

Students will create delicious and beautiful mocktails using a variety of (safe, edible, nonalcoholic) substances. They will then be able to explain why they chose each substance and how they knew the substances were going to interact to create their drink. They can use susbtances like butterfly pea flower tea, egg whites, lemon juice, lime juice, apple cider vinegar, water, simple syrup, black tea, mint leaves, carbonated water, food coloring, edible glitter, coconut milk Using coconut oil to fat-wash black tea, talking about the chemistry of fat-washing. Vocabulary: suspension, emulsion, dissolved, density, sediment, liquid-liquid extraction, physical change (muddling), chemical change How can we use our understanding of chemistry to improve the taste and appearance of our mocktails? How do restaurateurs design delicious and beautiful drinks? Product(s) The drink itself, in a glass (probably multiple glasses?) An ingredient list, describing the chemistry behind the drink Exhibition (Hands & Minds page 34) (Work That Matters pages 66-67) Don’t worry if you don’t have a specific venue worked out, just describe your first-draft vision for an exhibition! Something that isn't too clearly connected to bars. Perhaps something more closely to a lemonade stand? Or maybe have them run a bar and have to make the drinks in front of people CONTENT GOAL How will students learn it in this project? Acid - base reaction & pH indicator Mixing butterfly pea flower tea with an acid Emulsions Foaming egg whites Solubility Dissolving syrups in water of differing temperatures Colloidal solution / suspension Mixing coconut milk in and then letting it separate Density Slowly pouring simple syrup down the side of the glass to watch it pool in the bottom due to being more dense Oxidation Bruise a handful of mint leaves. Submerge half in an acid, leave the other half out. The half exposed to air will turn brown.

Epidemic Explorers: Mission Outbreak Management

Designed in June 2024 by Nikki

Grade Level

High School

Initial ideas

Operation Outbreak (OO): Immerse yourself in a fictional epidemic, where a Bluetooth-transmitted pathogen spreads across smartphones. Take on real-world roles — government official, biomedical researcher, banker, healthcare worker, and more — as you battle the outbreak, gaining hands-on knowledge of society's response in a unique learning experience. Students will also play the Nano Vr. Game where Nano is a thrilling cellular adventure with real science in its DNA. A strange virus is sweeping across the globe. As a trainee in a top-secret bioresearch program, you use your headset and haptic gloves to remotely control a nanodrone -- a tiny machine that gets injected into the human body. With the drone, you operate a synthetic immune cell, jacking into infected patients around the world to fight their infections on the microscopic level, and ultimately track down and face the mystery virus itself. You'll need to master the cell's living systems: you generate energy from food molecules, use the cell's DNA to manufacture a variety of proteins to keep the cell alive, and to combat invaders. This is not a science textbook -- it's a game to its core, but one that's based on real science. You've never experienced biology, or gaming, like this.

"Global Gastronomy & Culture Carnival!"

Designed in March 2025 by Aatash

Grade Level

Initial ideas

Conduct a multicultural fair to explore and celebrate different cultures. Students will research a country, prepare traditional dishes, and present on cultural practices.

Poetic Playtime: Skits with a Twist

Designed in January 2025 by MBonna

Grade Level

9

Initial ideas

Students will understand a poem's figurative language and identify it's deeper meaning.

Explore Hawaiian Nature with DLNR Detectives!

Designed in January 2025 by Janelle

Grade Level

Kindergarten

Initial ideas

I want to design a project using native hawaiian plants

"Thrillville: Exploring Theme Park Rides and Design"

Designed in April 2024 by Melissa

Grade Level

Middle School

Initial ideas

Students create a themed mini carnival ride using LEGO robotics. They create at least one custom LEGO piece printed on a 3D that integrates into their ride. They create a name for their carnival ride and marketing materials related to their theme (ancient Egypt, etc.).

Career Quest: Explore, Engage, Excel!

Designed in March 2025 by Julie

Grade Level

Initial ideas

VIRTUAL CAREER FAIR Students will engage in virtual career stations, where they watch recorded interviews with industry experts and complete a hands-on activities related to different career fields, identifying areas of interest

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Inkwire turns your ideas into a shareable and customizable unit or lesson plan – complete with a suggested timeline and scope & sequence for implementation.

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“Inkwire takes a more student centered approach to assessment. All students can easily create a digital portfolio of any evidence that they are proud of. Inkwire moves us in a direction to eliminate inequitable grading systems.”

Ted Cuevas
High Tech High Chula Vista

“Inkwire provides a platform for students to curate and present their educational journey from kindergarten to 12th grade, illustrating their growth and self-discovery as learners. This tool enables us to share their progress with our community and state.

As we are beginning to implement PBL within the district having a platform that houses the projects that can be shared helps teachers to collaborate seamlessly.”

Dr. Brandy Howard
Bullitt County Public Schools

“Inkwire is helping us showcase student work to other students, families and the larger community. It's helping with our teacher professional development. Teachers are able to see what other teachers are doing and build a library of exemplars”

Sam Berg
Oakland Unified School District

“Now, my students are able to post performance assessments and communication of their process. Inkwire enables them give feedback to each other which creates a more student centered approach to assessment.

I also use it now to collect their work and give them feedback. It has made authentic feedback significantly faster than it used to be."

Max Cady
Design Tech High School

“Inkwire is the best platform for PBL. Our students are doing elevator pitches. They are able to pick up their phone and record and I can give them feedback, as well as their peers. It is so collaborative and the way I can organize my deliverables is so user friendly. I love it!”

Julie McNeese
Bullitt County Public Schools

“Inkwire is an amazing platform that uplifts students voices by providing them the space to post their work in multiple formats, see the work of their peers as well as provide feedback.

My favorite feature is the Binder, since it is a collection of all your work and as a teacher I can view by user, which would be helpful during a Family Conference."

Chantel Parnell
Oakland Unified School District

“Inkwire helps my students learn from peers, practice providing useful feedback to each other, and document work that can easily be transformed into a portfolio.

I love the ease of students sharing project work with each other, allowing them to easily comment on more visual aspects of work. It’s like if Padlet and Google classroom had a baby.”

Kaylyn Oates
Verde Valley School

“The portfolio builder + binder in Inkwire is unlike anything out there. Rather than having students trying to remember what they did, it allows them to think carefully and deeply about what they want to share to their parents and the public and how they want to present it. It reduces busy work and increases student agency.”

Jean Kaneko
Santa Monica-Malibu USD

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