Intellectual Outputs

Please feel free to download these documents below to use in your classes, your school or as interested parent.

We have devoleped five output.

  1. Various lesson plans that you can use straight away in your lessons
  2. A guide to inform school leaders what the benefit is of adding practical elements in theoretic learning, with examples how pupils understand the subjects sooner and get more motivated. Including quotes from the school leaders of the partner schools.
  3. A teacher guide to help teachers how to develop lessons to add practical elements in theoretical lessons.
  4. A booklet for (grand)parents to give insight in how using your hands can be a future for the pupils. Many different interviews with practicioners, but also inpiring stories of students. So.. also nice to read if you are a techer or school leader 😉
  5. A Smart Hands Start KIT. A set of cards that you can use to add to your existing lessons, to think of a combined lesson (physics and dance, or math and music) or to think up some nice ideas for workshops. You can download the files and print them to use.
Camelia Moldovan
(principal CNER, Cluj-Napoca, Romania):

“I would definitely recommend implementing a Smart Hands approach to Principals of other schools because it’s a way in which pupils discover having skills they did not know about. I was very impressed by a bird house that our pupils built during a learning activity in The Netherlands. It was the first time the girls had ever built something made of wood and it was their own creation ; they were so proud of themselves they wanted
to take the product back home to show it to their parents.
Up to that moment the pupils had been convinced that theory was the only thing they were good at, so the Smart Hands approach gave them the opportunity to use their practical skills.
– a very rare thing nowadays.”

Smart Hands lesson plan Portfolio (ENG)

A portfolio of lessonplans to combine hands and theoretical learning in a playfull and inspirational way to motivate pupils and let them understand the theory sooner.

Smart Hands for School Leaders (ENG)

A guide for school leaders with suggestions and examples how to implement the Smart Hands approach in their school.

Click here for the Romanian version.

Smart Hands Teacher’s Guide (ENG)

A guide for teachers with suggestions and examples how to implement the Smart Hands approach to their lessons.

Smart Hands Parents Guide (ENG)

A booklet with examples how the future can look like for your (grand) child using heads and hands to reach their heart.

Smart Hands Start Kit -Cards (ENG)

These cards can be used to create multi-disciplinary lessons or workshops. They are also about teaching how to include using the fine motor skills of the hands in learning how to make objects, hold tools and work with different materials.

Click here for the Portuguese version
Click here for the Dutch version

Individual resources, workshop formats, tools and more.

Please feel free to contact us if you want us to feature your workshop using the Smart Hands Method!

Value and Cost of a Shirt

Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Economics

Make a Non-Sew T-shirt Bag

Sustainability, Crafts, Design

Make it Sound

Math, Physiks, Craft

Cultural Treasures

Art, History, Technology, Culture

Architecture of a Virus

Biology, Math

Light Cube

Physics, Crafts, Technology