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Chapter Six

Your Turn

Part One

It's time - You've got this!

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Questions & Activities

Reflect on your lesson with short activities, or by exploring referenced articles, featured podcasts, term definitions, and more!

Featured Hot Take

Putting something that’s uniquely yours into the world isn’t easy. Don’t panic! Every innovator and leader and changemaker had to start somewhere and though the path always looks daunting when we take our first step, it’s easier than we assume. 

We spoke with Story Warren, an award-winning rising leader and community builder, to find out what it’s like to start a movement as a teenager, and what advice she has for those who want to follow in her footsteps.

We’re featuring this podcast across all five Nature Labs subjects. You might not like art, or science, or English, or social studies, but they are all related and by listening to this podcast, hopefully you’ll better understand why.

Your Project

What's your better idea?

Your Project: Outline

View your final project. You got this!

Project: Part One

Create a rapid prototype

Project: Part Two

Test your prototype

Project: Part Three

Re-adjust your idea and go for it!

How To

Guides to help you figure things out.

How to Converse

Sounds simple, right? And yet so many of us don't know how to have a good conversation. Let's get a refresher on what good...

Goal Setting

To grow personally and professionally, it's important to set goals. What's does that mean exactly? It’s purposefully identifying and planning new tasks that you...

Selecting Your Topic

Choosing a good topic for a project can be challenging, but here are some steps to make the decision just a bit less overwhelming. Identify...

How to Conduct a Student/Teacher Conference

A student-teacher conference is a meeting between a teacher and one or more students. These conferences are usually held outside of the regular classroom...

Design Thinking with Michael Kennedy

So, you’ve got a great idea for a class project; to launch a new business; to improve a community service; to change the world...

Stories from rising leaders

Young people can change the world. You can make a difference for people and nature today. But the path isn’t always as obvious or as easy as we...

Design Thinking with Michael Kennedy

So, you’ve got a great idea for a class project; to launch a new business; to improve a community service; to change the world...

Selecting Your Topic

Choosing a good topic for a project can be challenging, but here are some steps to make the decision just a bit less overwhelming. Identify...

Further Exploration

Latest News

Iran War Briefing

The Iran war, which started February 28th with US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran's Supreme Leader amid nuclear and missile tensions, is a high stakes...

How Floor Crossings Might Impact Canadian Politics

As we’ve discussed previously in Nature Labs, floor crossing involves Members of Parliament switching party allegiance mid-term, shaking up government stability. And in recent...

International Women’s Day

Happy International Women's Day! Today is a day to recognize the strength, resilience, intelligence, and leadership of women around the world. From classrooms to communities, from science...

Resources From the Curated Library

Great Questions Lead to Great Design – A Guide to the Design Thinking Process

Great Questions Lead to Great Design – A Guide to the Design Thinking Process Bias: Centre Right Sub-Category: Interviews Source: Design (Business) File Type: Guide Overview: Asking the better question gets the better answer Web...

What is prototyping?

What is prototyping? Sub-Category: Prototyping Source: Innovation Foundation File Type: Video Overview: What prototyping is

6 Ways To Make A Team Of Rivals Work

Bias: Centre Right Sub-Category: Collaboration Source: Forbes File Type: Opinion Overview: How to make a team of rivals work in today's workforce Web Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianbailey/2012/10/04/6-ways-to-make-a-team-of-rivals-work/#56b81a576bd0

A young woman of color in the west craves her connection to nature but...

A young woman of color in the west craves her connection to nature but struggles with the fact that it doesn't always feel safe Bias: Left Sub-Category: Culture...

Sustainable Development and Social Justice: Conflicting Urgencies and the Search for Common Ground in...

Sustainable Development and Social Justice: Conflicting Urgencies and the Search for Common Ground in Urban and Regional Planning Sub-Category: Culture Divide Source: University of Michigan File Type: Journal Overview: The challenge of...

Reflections

Michael Kennedy

So, you’ve got a great idea for a class project; to launch a new business; to improve a community service; to change the world...
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Chapters

Chapter One

The System of Things

Chapter Five

Here’s How

Chapter Nine

Own Your Hypocrisy

Chapter Two

The Context of It All

Chapter Six

Your Turn

Chapter Ten

Keep Going

Chapter Three

We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

Chapter Seven

Dig Deeper

Chapter Eleven

One Last Thing

Chapter Four

Hard Stuff is Hard

Chapter Eight

Be Better

Chapter Twelve

The End (of the Beginning)