Example projects

How can we ensure that clean drinking water is handled properly? This is a (combined) project for pupils from the last grade Primary and the first grade Secondary school.

The summer is pretty nice but sometimes also causes problems. The children of the Bernardus school look for and find solutions.

This Bright Ideas Challenge was the task of 30 students 11 and 12 years of schools in Brno, Ljubljana, Holoubkov, Leiden and Pilsen. This is the guide for teachers.

Pupils from the Bernardus school Zoeterwoude participated in 2016 in the Nasa Space Poop Challenge a worldwide competition. Other schools in Leiden were also involved coordinated by the Leiden Approach. (A translation in English will be published soon)

This challenge took place in March 2018 during the exchange of pupils from Pilsen, Holoubkov, Brno, Ljubljana and Leiden. Pupils work in groups of 4 and presented their prototypes to an audience and a jury.

Een DT Challenge developed Bona Design Thinking by pupils of Primary and Secondary school. (soon to be translated in English)

A short guide for teachers for setting up a project DT

Assignment for students in subject social sciences and economics . Their challenge is to present an advice to the departments (ministeries) of Social Affairs and Finance to solve problems of ageing. (assignment soon to be translated in English)

Leerlingen uit 3 VWO krijgen de uitdaging een spel te ontwerpen over delen van de lesstof bij het vak Economie, Management en Organisatie.

Three lessons about principle of Design-Learning on the basis of Design Thinking Students get an assignment to design an object.

How might we solve problems of your own world, country, region, city, school or maybe your own family by Observation of the Earth from the space. Objectives of DT challenge Leiden in april 2018

Assignment for students in subject economics. Their challenge is to develop products for investors who will meet needs in a growing market in the field of aging.

Guide for teachers for Design Thinking projects, developed for the Exchange of students 11/12 and 14/15. Developed in Brno 2017 for the Exchange in Pilsen.

A DT project of the J. Moskrica school in Ljubljana about the problem of waste of water.

A manual for instruction for teachers (in Slovenian language) . It gives teachers first an idea how to prepare the worksheets for Design Thinking project and subsequently the tools ad methods they need to apply design thinking steps - discovery, interpretation, experimentation and evolution. Through it, in certain steps, they will find also an example of real case scenario.

An international group of students create some proposals to fight against unawareness of Global Change problems.

The manual gives teachers at first an idea how they could prepare worksheets for a Design Thinking project and subsequently the tools and methods they need to apply design thinking steps - discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation and evolution. Through it, in certain steps, they will find also an example of real case scenario.

Guide for teachers to set up and coach a larger DT project. Developed for the exchange of students 16/17 years in Leiden and Pilsen 2016/2017

How can we solve voters’ dissatisfaction by changing the Dutch voting system? This is the appealing title of a thesis (profielwerkstuk) by Lois Warmerdam & Laurine Polak (Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden) based on a DT exchange project in te school year 2016-2017.

Instruction of students to use Design Thinking in designing objects. Suitable for students 15 - 16 years. (translation in English will be available soon)

Hier is de docentenhandleiding bij "Ontwerp je ding" in te zien of te downloaden. Het project is ontwikkeld en getest op het Stedelijk Gymnasium te Leiden. Het is geschikt voor de 3e en 4e klassen VWO