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This Architecture Studio Released A Series Of Templates Children Can Use To Create Paper Cities During Lockdown | DeMilked

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If you think you’re bored being stuck at home all day, think about all the children that can’t go to school or go outside to play with their friends. However, British architecture studio Foster + Partners found a way to keep children entertained during the lockdown. They have released a series of paper building templates that kids can print out, color and use to build their own paper cities to keep themselves busy. The studio even encourages children to share their own creations on social media using the #architecturefromhome hashtag!

“Over the next few weeks we will be sharing new activities for children whilst at home, away from school. We’ll include drawing, making, playing, thinking, reading, watching and other activities to keep them entertained – for at least a few hours!” writes the studio.

More info: Foster + Partners | Instagram | Twitter | h/t: Dezeen

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Architecture studio Foster + Partners came up with a creative way to keep children occupied during the lockdown

In an interview with Dezeen, Katy Harris, a senior partner at Foster + Partners, said that the recent lockdown offered the studio an opportunity to create a number of online initiatives that educate and entertain the children that cannot attend school as well as support their parents.

They released a series of templates that kids can print out, color, and fold to create paper cities

Katy says that the studio’s initiative is a “chance for all of us to have some fun and learn at the same time”.

The studio encourages children to share their creations using the #architecturefromhome hashtag

“How about drawing the future architect and the most fantastical skyscraper ever designed!” writes the studio in their latest Twitter post. “This is so much fun and the whole family can play.”

Foster + Partners released templates for a skyscraper, houses and even a tutorial on how to draw trees like an architect.

So far the studio released templates for a skyscraper, some houses…

Katy says that the studio has tried to engage children in activities that are both practical and thought-provoking.

The studio’s main aim was to get children to ask questions about their surroundings and start thinking about the environment they built.

Even though the activities are aimed at children up to 12 years of age, everyone can join in on the fun. “From the responses we are getting, even older children are taking something from these activities,” said Katy. “The broad appeal means that anyone can develop them into something bigger and better.”

…as well as a worksheet showing how to draw trees

Katy says that so far the response has been “absolutely fantastic” and “a bit overwhelming”. The studio received emails from all over the world, including Canada, Spain, Italy, Australia and Cambodia. “We are glad to be able to brighten someone’s day or kindle their creativity in some ways –  stay tuned for many more fun activities!” concluded Katy.

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Students brought the ingredients to cook up change.

Tens of millions of children around the world go to bed hungry or malnourished each night-but students from around the world changed that. Through the Hunger Challenge, students were able to mobilize $2.3 million for programs fighting hunger. Learn more below.

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Why hunger?

Food is the foundation for a healthy life.

An estimated 821 million people-one person in nine-suffer from hunger worldwide. In the U.S., the percentage is even higher, at 1 in 5. Hunger and malnutrition are not just immediate threats to health and well-being-over time, they can keep children from growing, learning and developing their full potential.

Hunger might look different than you think.

Hunger can be heartbreakingly obvious or deceptively invisible. That's why Hunger Challenge teams learned about hunger in all its guises-malnutrition, food insecurity, 'food deserts,' and more-and investigated how hunger prevents young people in different places from living full lives. We're also looking at what can be done to end hunger, from emergency relief to long-term solutions.

Continue to cook up change!

Even though the Hunger Challenge has ended, the need to address hunger in our world is still as important as ever. Check out the Hunger Challenge drop down on our resources page to find learning materials and video related to hunger and food insecurity.

Youth helping youth.

Students efforts unlocked $2.3 million dollars that supported hunger and malnutrition programs in communities worldwide, including UNICEF's work fighting chronic malnutrition in Yemen and Ethiopia; Mary's Meals' school-based feeding programs in India, Malawi, and Haiti; and eleven other community-based organizations confronting hunger and nutrition around the U.S.

Make the students recipes!

To celebrate students work, we created the Studnets Rebuild Hunger Challenge Cookbook! In it you can explore the favorite meals and snacks of students from all around the world. The cookbook will be released for download in August 2020. Come back to find it that month!

From learning and creativity to hunger relief.

We made it easy for students to help their peers while also taking away a lasting understanding of hunger and its effects, nutrition, agriculture, and global citizenship. These were the steps:

1. Register, Set, Go.

More than 1,600 teams in 54 countries registered for the Hunger Challenge, making it one of the largest in our 11-year history!

2. Creatively baked recipes rolled in.

Tens of thousands of students mobilized to make over 130,000 recipes! Each was matched with up to a $6 donation from the Bezos Family Foundation to support hunger relief.

3. Collectively, students served up change for children around the world.

In total, $2.3 million dollars was generated to support over 230,000 children and youth with life-saving interventions.

Check out the Hunger Challenge teams and projects!

There are never too many chefs in this kitchen. Students from all over the world stepped up to take the Hunger Challenge. Explore the more than 1,600 teams that joined and click on the apple icons to learn about the programs funded.

Learning Materials

Free teaching materials for any K-12 setting.

The Challenge has ended, but you can still minimize prep time and maximize student engagement with our curricula, lesson plans, and other resources. Many are informed by national standards, all are flexible enough for any setting, and all are free of charge. Below are the essential overview materials, and there's many more to explore on our Resources page.

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Hunger Challenge Updates

Meet our partners, read inspiring notes, and see artfully designed recipes from teachers and students around the world.

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MONOPOLY is a Flash-powered game that can only be played on Pogo Classic. It will be retiring later this year due to changing web technologies.

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Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in homes, parks, clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments. In recent years, chess has become part of some school curricula.

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By now most everyone knows I am a Google Geek, and that I have been an educator for 25 years. But did you know that one of my other passions is tabletop board games?

That's right. As much as I love technology, I also love holding physical cards in my hands, or rolling dice, or moving plastic meeples around aboard. Some of my favorite tabletop games (currently) are Sushi Go, Codenames, Forbidden Island, Dragonwood, Settlers of Catan, Snake Oil, and Hanabi.

Although gaming is fun, it can be more than just that. Tabletop games can be a powerful tool for learning, helping students to develop critical thinking, problem solving skills, collaboration, communication, and creativity.

Sometimes all three of my interests intersect... education, technology, and games. Such is the case with Battlesheets! A couple years ago I recognized the similarity between the classic game Battleship with the rows and columns in Google Sheets, and decided to create a playable version inside of Sheets. The end results was Battlesheets, a Google version of Battleship for your students to play, develop critical thinking skills, and learn about locating points in a coordinate system.

See below to get your own copy of Battlehseets, as well as detailed directions on how to play, and additional resources on the spreadsheet tricks used to make the game work.

Battlesheets is available as a read only spreadsheet template, which means you will need to make your own copy of the spreadsheet, and then share it with your opponent to play. To access the Battlesheets template click the link below:

Battlesheets functions very much like the traditional Battleship game:

Each player uses a different tab in a shared spreadsheet, types in letters in one grid to place their ships, and then takes turns typing in X's in another grid to drop their bombs.

Pre-made formulas and conditional formatting then show you if you have hit your opponent and if they have hit you.

The game continues until one player has sunk all of their opponent's ships.

Replay is as easy as deleting the contents of your grids and starting over.

Detailed directions

Step #1 - Make a copy of the template

Battlesheets is shared as a READ ONLY template. To be able to play the game you will need to make a copy of the spreadsheet first.

Be sure to be logged into your Google account.

Open the Battlesheets template.

Click "File" in the top menu bar, and choose "Make a copy..." from the drop down menu.

You can now name your copy of the spreadsheet, and will have your own copy of the game.

Note: You may want to make multiple copies of the spreadsheet so you can play the game with many people.

Step #2 - Share your copy of the game with someone

To play the game with someone else, you need to share the spreadsheet with them and give them edit rights.

Click the blue "Share" button in the top right corner

Enter their email address in the "People" box.

Make sure "Can edit" is selected in the drop down menu.

Finally click "Send".

That person will now have access to the spreadsheet and can play the game with you.

Step #3 - Play the game

1. Choose who will be Player #1 and Player #2. Click on the tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet for Player 1 or Player 2. From here on out stay on that tab. No cheating by peeking at the other player's tab!

2. If you need to communicate with your opponent, you can use the chat feature built into Google Sheets to type back and forth. Alternately you could connect with your opponent through a Google Hangout.

3. Place your boats in the top left grid by typing letters in the boxes. Refer to the key on the right of your sheet to see what letters to use and how many boxes each of your boats take up.

4. Take turns dropping bombs on your opponent by typing an "X" in a square in the bottom left grid.

5. To see if you hit your opponent, look in the grid on the bottom right. A black square means a miss, a red square means a hit, and a white square means you have not dropped a bomb on that square yet.

6. To see if your opponent hit you, look in the grid on the top right. A black square means a miss, a red square means a hit, and a white square means your opponent has not dropped a bomb on that square yet.

7. If your opponent hits all the squares for any of your boats, inform them that they have sunk that particular boat.

8. Keep taking turns until one of you has no boats left. The other person is the winner.

9. To play again, simply delete the contents of the cells in the top left and bottom left grids.

Conclusion
To learn more about the Google Sheets features used to make the game, check out the Google help pages on topics such as conditional formatting, the spreadsheet function list, and specifically the IF function. If you have any suggestions or feedback please let me know so I can continue to improve the game.

So find a friend, drop your bombs, and let the Internet hear you cry "You sunk my Battlesheet!"

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By now most everyone knows I am a Google Geek, and that I have been an educator for 25 years. But did you know that one of my other passions is tabletop board games? That's right. As much as I love technology, I also love holding physical cards in my hands, or rolling dice, or moving plastic meeples around aboard.

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Control Alt Achieve: Google Drawings Chess and Checkers for Students

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Earlier this week I shared a post about Battlesheets, my Google Sheets version of the classic tabletop game Battleship. Building on that topic, I am sharing two more Google versions of classic games in this post. This time I have created online interactive versions of Chess and Checkers with Google Drawings.

As mentioned before, tabletop games, board games, card games, and such can have great educational value for students. One great way to learn more about the benefit of gaming in education is to listen to the podcast " Games in Schools and Libraries". The show is hosted by Donald Dennis who "works in the Georgetown County Library system where he is the Teen Technology and Games Librarian." Donald also helps host another favorite podcast " On Board Games" which covers tabletop gaming in general.

Although there are many modern games (which I love) Chess and Checkers are classics that are both accessible and educational for students. They both also happen to translate very well into digital format using Google Drawings. See below to get your own copies of my Chess and Checkers games, as well as some tips and tricks for playing them online.

Google Drawings Checkers

To get your copy of Google Drawings Checkers, click the template link below:

Click the link for the template above to get your own copy of the Checkers Google Drawing.

Share edit rights to the Google Drawing with the other player by clicking the "Share" button and adding their email address to the "People" box.

Once you and the other player both have the Drawing open, click and drag the pieces to make your moves.

Drag pieces off the board when captured.

Copy and paste the King pieces onto board as needed (when one of your pieces makes it to the other side of the board).

Leave comments for your opponent by selecting a piece, and clicking "Insert" then "Comment".

Rewatch previous moves by clicking "File" and "See revision history".

Google Drawings Chess

To get your copy of Google Drawings Chess, click the template link below:

Directions:

Click the link for the template above to get your own copy of the Chess Google Drawing.

Share edit rights to this Google Drawing with the other player by clicking the "Share" button and adding their email address to the "People" box.

Once you and the other player both have the Drawing open, click and drag the chess pieces to make your moves.

Drag pieces off the board when captured.

Leave comments for your opponent by selecting a piece, and clicking "Insert" then "Comment".

Rewatch previous moves by clicking "File" and "See revision history".

Post by Eric Curts. Connect with Eric on Twitter at twitter.com/ericcurts and on Google+ at plus.google.com/+EricCurts1

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Earlier this week I shared a post about Battlesheets, my Google Sheets version of the classic tabletop game Battleship. Building on that topic, I am sharing two more Google versions of classic games in this post. This time I have created online interactive versions of Chess and Checkers with Google Drawings.

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Here you can enjoy the 25 Brain Teasers, Puzzles & Games that SharpBrains readers (primarily adults, but younger minds too) have enjoyed the most since 2010.

It is always good to learn more about our brains and to exercise them!.

Fun teasers on how our brains and minds work:

1. You think you know the colors? Try the Stroop Test

2. You say you can count? Check out this brief attention experiment

3. Test your stress level

4. Guess: Are there more connections in one human brain or leaves in the whole Amazon?

Challenge your cognitive abilities with these brain teaser games:

5. Quick brain teasers to flex two key mental muscles

6. Count the Fs in this sentence

7. Can you identify Apple's logo?

Visual illusions:

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9. What do you see?

10. Fun Mental Rotation challenge

11. What is going on with these pictures?

Language and logic mind teasers:

12. Which way is the bus heading?

13. Where do words go?

14. Join this party for polyglots

15. Fun & Brainy Haikus. Yours?

A few visual workouts to challenge your mind:

16. Is a circle a circle?

17. Less obvious than it may

How's your pattern recognition?

19. Proverbs to exercise your memory and reasoning

20. Find the missing number in The Empty Triangle

21. Good puzzle for the whole brain: The Blind Beggar

22. Find the the Really, Really, Really Big Number

Fun brain teasers for the workplace:

23. Please consider Linda 's job prospects

24. A few guesstimations often used in consulting and tech interviews

25. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

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Zork: The Great Underground Empire is a classic text adventure game. The player begins as an "adventurer" standing near a white house in a nice forest, but soon descends into the Great Underground Empire, where most of the game takes place. The player's quest is to collect the Nineteen Treasures of Zork.

As was typical for adventure games of its era, Zork does not use graphics. Instead, it communicates with the player via text, and the player interacts with the game by typing commands, such as "examine mailbox" or "take torch". For movement, the player types in geographical directions (such as "north" or "east" - or just "n" and "e"), and can check what items are being carried with the "inventory" command (or just "i").

The game was adapted from a larger mainframe version from the late 1970s, and is one of the first examples of its genre.

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What a remarkable difference it makes when you view the art from the correct angle! It actually looks like there is a giant hole in the pavement filled with terracotta Lego figures.

This phenomenon is known as " perspectival anamorphosis", which means that the artwork will look 3-dimensional when viewed from a specific angle, but will appear totally skewed from other angles. " Anamorphic drawing" is another way of describing these types of 3-D pavement drawings.

Anamorphosis was a technique discovered in the early Renaissance, when artists painted ceilings to depict towering architecture and a floating menagerie of figures, some appearing closer and others appearing to be higher up, as if they were inhabiting an actual 3-D space. Anamorphic perspective flourished well into the Baroque and Rococo eras.

A classic example is the ceiling of this Jesuit Church in Vienna, painted by Andrea Pozzo in 1703:

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Here's list of great science experiments with instructions that you can do right at home or at school. In order for your science experiment to be safe and successful, be sure to:

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Great collection of Science Experiments for home and school.

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Find lots of easy Science Experiments perfect for trying out home or at school!

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Back in 2015, the nation-nay THE WORLD-came together to furiously debate the color of a dress. Is it blue and black or white and gold? You might say that it's blue and black, but only about half the internet would agree.

As it turns out, even scientists were befuddled(Opens in a new window) about why people were seeing two completely different things. Overall, though, this controversy shed some light on a fundamental truth: Your brain sucks. All our brains suck. While our brains are capable of some amazing feats, they're not nearly as infallible as we like to think.

Our brains filter a constant tsunami of stimuli and piece the important parts together to recreate what we know as reality. And they do all this in damn-near real time-which is really impressive if you think about it. But here's the thing: a big chunk of what we consider "reality" actually consists of our brains making guestimates.

We know this because researchers have devised ways to consistently fool our brains into seeing things they're not really seeing. These little reality busters are known as optical illusions.

Just think about the last movie or TV show you watched. As much as you might have been affected by the story, you weren't really watching those events taking place. Your gullible brain was presented with a rapid series of static images, which fooled it into thinking it was watching an event. This little trick is known as the pi phenomenon(Opens in a new window) .

We don't think of TV as an illusion, but that's just because it's common. However, the truth of the matter is it's just Hollywood taking advantage of our easily tricked skull mush.

While our brains are complex, beautiful machines that help us maneuver fairly successfully through a big complicated world, they are far from perfect. Check out these optical illusions that prove just how much our brains really, truly suck sometimes.
NOTE: Some videos in this feature offer A LOT of stimuli and probably should not be clicked on by those known to suffer from epilepsy or similar conditions.
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25 Optical Illusions That Prove Your Brain Sucks

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137 Optical Illusions (with scientific explanations)

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137 Optical Illusions (with scientific explanations)

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Optical illusions don't "trick the eye", nor "fool the brain", nor reveal that "our brain sucks", ... but are fascinating!

They also teach us about our visual perception and its limitations. My selection here emphazises beauty and interactive experiments; I also attempt explanations of the underlying visual mechanisms where possible. Returning visitor? Check →here for History/News.

"Optical illusion" sounds derogative, as if exposing a malfunction of the visual system. Rather, I view these phenomena as highlighting particular good adaptations of our visual system to its experience with standard viewing situations, confronted with an atypical situation. These experiences are based on normal visual conditions, and thus under unusual contexts can lead to inappropriate interpretations of a visual scene (="Bayesian interpretation of perception").

If you are not a vision scientist, you might find my explanations too highbrow. That is not on purpose, but vision research simply is not trivial, like any science. So, if an explanation seems gibberish, simply enjoy the phenomenon 😉.

What do illusions reveal about my personality?

Nothing! While the web is full of claims that your personality (right- or left brain dominated, intro- vs. extroverted, stressed or sublime, or whatnot...) can be deduced from your ability to see some given illusion or which variant for bistable ones. However, there is no reliable scientific data that suggests this. That's just click-baiting BS. There is some influence of age, though - but you don't need illusions to know your age... So: Don't let it irk you if you don't see all the phenomena described. For many illusions, there is a percentage of people with perfectly normal vision who don't see them, mostly for reasons currently unknown.

More material

Bach & Poloschek (2006) Optical Illusions Primer (PDF, 2 pages from ACNR); on the programming: Bach 2014 (paywalled, contact me for a PDF).

Book (in German): "... Täuschungen ... Sehphänomene"

Motion & Time

Luminance/Brightness & Contrast

Colour

Geometric & Angle Illusions

Space, 3D & Size Constancy

Cognitive / Gestalt Effects

Specialties with faces

Auditory Illusions

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This huge collection of non-scary optical illusions and fascinating visual phenomena emphasizes interactive exploration, beauty, and scientific explanation.

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