Curiosity in Action Toolkit
Throughout Curiosity in Action, we recognised the value of having specific tools and resources for building and maintaining meaningful partnerships, delivering activities and capturing impact. In some cases, we were able to use incredible resources already developed. In others, we noticed a lack of what we were looking for so spent the time developing these in the hopes of supporting others to be able to establish their own youth worker-researcher partnerships and explore STEM with young people. This toolkit is the culmination of our work across the last two years, and the resources we developed and the learning along the way. We hope you’ll find this toolkit useful!
How to use this toolkit
This toolkit aims to serve as a guide to support you through partnership work, planning and delivering STEM-themed activities and capturing meaningful impact. While developed specifically for youth workers and researchers looking to work together to co-develop and deliver STEM-themed activities, many of the resources are applicable to a wide range of projects. This includes but is not limited to those looking to get involved or to strengthen partnership work, exploring and learning more about an action research model, youth group activity ideas and engaging evaluation methods.
The resources were developed with the wider sector in mind but also to specifically cater to our Curiosity in Action project and the partners involved. Please adapt and use these resources in a way most useful to your own contexts.
The resources are listed in order, from first getting your project set up right through to ways of sharing the impact. If you are looking for a particular resource or would like to know more detail on a particular stage, you can click the links below.
Getting started
Planning and delivering sessions
Capturing impact
Link other tools
Mentimeter
Padlet
Typeform