We all have to go through the school experience, hoping to make it out to the other side a smarter, wiser, and better-rounded person. There are plenty of challenges along the way and obstacles to overcome for little ones and teens alike, but school is a very formative experience and helps everyone develop in so many different ways!
In this modern, technological world, schools, colleges, and universities are more high-tech than ever before. They have gadgets and gizmos of all kinds to provide better learning experiences for the students, and many of them have also incorporated other fun features like slides and artwork too. Here are 60 schools that are doing it right!
1) Tablet Tables
We’re living in a technological age, and schools are starting to adapt, incorporating gadgets and devices into classrooms and more. This class has been equipped with giant tablet tables, letting the kids work and play on an enormous touchscreen.
2) So Much Fun
This won’t exactly help with the whole educational side of school life, but a slide taking kids down to the cafeteria will definitely make them enjoy going to school a lot more!
3) Simply Beautiful
This elementary school had a wonderful idea for an art project. They got all the kids to paint stones in their own favorite colors and patterns, then lined them all up to form a beautiful pathway. It brightens up the school grounds and allows the kids to express themselves too.
4) Noise-O-Meter
This little device actually measures noise levels in the surrounding area. It can be placed in school libraries and study areas, letting the kids know if they’re getting too loud.
5) No Excuses
Any student who attends this school really has no excuse for not remembering these common mathematic formulas and functions. They see them all every single day while walking up the stairs.
6) Need A Nap?
Kids are known for being bundles of energy, but there are times when little ones and teens alike just need to lie down for a little while. This school installed a Nap Room for anyone who just needed half an hour of rest in the middle of the day.
7) So Pretty
Why should schools all look the same, with gray corridors and tired old halls? The faculty members at this place decided to add some color and flair to their environment, painting the hall beautifully and making the whole school look a lot nicer.
8) A Fake Pharmacy
Looks just like a regular CVS pharmacy, right? Well, it’s actually a mock pharmacy that has been set-up inside a pharmacy university building to give the students a realistic way to put their education into practice.
9) A Perfect Mural
This beautiful mural of book spines really adds a lot of color and life to a boring school hallway. Also, the fire extinguisher has been cleverly positioned right in the middle of Fahrenheit 451.
10) Learn A Language While You Walk
These stairs have been decorated with numbers in English and Spanish, letting the kids learn a little something as they take each step.
11) Such A Great Idea
This school incorporated an awesome idea with the introduction of this vending machine. It’s filled up with different stories, and the kids can earn tokens for good behavior and grades, exchanging their tokens in the machine to get free books!
12) Lights, Camera, Education
This college has its own movie theater where classes are sometimes held, and the students can make use of these super convenient desks that snap into the cup holders and give them a stable surface for taking notes.
13) A Sweet Ride
Many college campuses have daycare centers for students with kids to study and not have to worry about their little ones, and this place took the concept to the next level with these fun little carts for driving the babies around.
14) Staple Anytime
There’s never a stapler around when you need one. Well, at this school, staplers are fixed to the walls, letting you join piles of papers together in an instant.
15) Slam Dunk
To try and cut down on the amount of litter in the school, this place added little basketball hoops over the trash cans. It made a real difference!
16) The Best Of The Best
Stanford is known as one of the best universities anywhere in the world, and it’s innovations like this that have helped to keep the California university ahead of the competition. This room is filled with flexible whiteboards, giving students many ways to express their ideas and work together on different projects.
17) Board Lockers
The best schools often adapt to their students and accept that everyone has their own hobbies and interests. While some schools have strict rules against skating on the grounds, this one installed skateboard lockers to encourage kids to be active and skate to school each morning.
18) No Stealing
This school wanted to provide calculators to the students, but it didn’t want to run the risk of having them stolen. This was the best anti-theft idea they could come up with!
19) Keeping Fit
In this day and age, with so many sweet treats to tempt us, it’s vital for everyone to stay fit. This set of stairs inspires students to walk more often by showing them how many calories they can burn with each and every step.
20) The Biggest Whiteboard Around
Why limit yourself to a small whiteboard when you could turn the whole wall into a drawing and writing space like this?
21) Play It Safe
This school gym installed free sunscreen dispensers for the kids to stay safe while playing or exercising outdoors. It’s only a little thing, but it can make such a big difference and even save a life!
22) A Little Slice Of Sky
Due to the way some universities, schools, and colleges are built, students can sometimes find themselves in rooms without any windows or natural light. To try and combat this issue, this classroom was fitted with fake ‘sky panels’ showing blue skies and fluffy white clouds.
23) Charge It Up
No teacher wants to deal with kids texting in class or having their lessons interrupted by ringtones and vibrations, but modern schools have to accept that pretty much every kid owns a phone these days. This school decided to adapt to the time by installing charging stations for kids to boost their batteries throughout the day.
24) A Clock For Mathematicians
This clock has been specially formulated with a range of sums and mathematical functions. It’s a fun themed item for any math teacher to use and a cool educational device too.
25) I See You
One of the worst feelings for any student is when you accidentally walk into the wrong class or arrive late, but this school has little peepholes on the doors to let you know whether class has started and if you’re in the right place.
26) Say No To Vaping
Vaping was supposed to be a game-changer, saving countless lives and helping millions of smokers quit cigarettes for good. Unfortunately, it’s also encouraged a lot of young people to buy e-cigs and vape them around campuses and schools. This school decided to invest in an anti-vape campaign, reminding kids that just one e-cig is equivalent in price to 17 delicious burritos!
27) Looking For A Date?
This school library wrapped up some books in brown paper, adding a few little hints on the cover to let readers know what the story is all about and then letting people ‘blindly’ pick books to read and potentially fall in love with!
28) A Bike Repair Stand
To encourage more kids to cycle to school, this bike stand was installed. It’s fitted with a bunch of tools to help bike owners tighten loose screws, pump up flat tires, and fix a wide range of other common bike issues.
29) Soft And Squidgy
This class has been equipped with big, colorful, comfortable seats for the kids to sit on. It’s definitely a way better option than those tough plastic chairs.
30) An All-Gender Bathroom
This school toilet doesn’t discriminate between genders or identities. Everyone is welcome to enter. This is an excellent addition in modern times, especially for all the young people out there who could be questioning their gender or feel that they don’t fit in with the binary system.
31) Relax
This awesome school library has a super artistic, modern design with these relaxing reading areas, perfect for those moments when students just want to sit back with a good book and lose themselves in the story.
32) Never Run Out Of Supplies Again
Students of all ages have so many things to think about and so many little items to bring to school each day. It’s only natural they can forget things from time to time, but this vending machine has got them covered!
33) Whiteboard Desks
This school library has been fitted with whiteboard desks, letting the students draw right on top of them and then wipe away their notes or drawings later on.
34) Look Closely
If you take a close peek at the pattern on these math class chairs, you’ll see that they’re decorated with binary code!
35) Skateboard Stand
Plenty of teens love to skate, and this school recognizes that! They took the time to install a little skateboard parking system.
36) Chill Out With A Furry Friend
To help kids deal with the stress and worry of exams, as well as issues in other aspects of life, many schools are bringing in therapy animals that offer comforting cuddles.
37) Too Cool For School
This awesome school supermarket lets students upvote or downvote different products. When a product gets 50 or more upvotes, it gets added to the store’s lineup.
38) Easy To Remember
There are many ways you can try and make something like the periodic table a little easier to remember. This school decided to add the symbols of each element to the cafeteria tables.
39) Move And Learn
This pre-school fitted little pedals to the underside of the desks to let the kids move and express some of their energy while learning at the same time.
40) An Evacuation Chair
This sort of thing should be in all schools and other buildings too. It’s a special ‘evacuation chair’ that allows wheelchair users or other people with mobility issues to be wheeled safely down the stairs and out of the building in case of emergencies.
41) Time To Play
This is every kid’s dream! It’s a slide that goes straight from the classroom to the play area, letting kids go to recess in style.
42) Stay In Your Lane
Just like in big city streets, it can be so annoying for students to have to walk behind others who are looking at their phones or slowly making their way down the hall. So this school decided to divide halls and stores into lanes for those who wish to run, walk, or text.
43) How Fitting
The skylight in this university math class has been decorated to look like an important and beautiful mathematical symbol: a Fibonacci spiral.
44) Going Green
If we all make little efforts here and there to ‘go green’ and reduce our energy consumption, we might have a chance of saving the planet for future generations, and this school is setting a great example with these solar powered charging stations.
45) Jazzing Up The Lockers
School hallways often look the same, with row after row of boring lockers lining each side. This school decided to jazz things up a little by painting the lockers to look like book spines, creating an Avenue of Adventure or a Lane of Literature.
46) Two In One
This campus library is fitted with treadmills that have been positioned right beside the computer desks, letting busy students work out and do their homework all at the same time! It’s the perfect answer for young people who want to exercise but never seem to find the time.
47) Sadly Necessary
It’s depressing and scary to think that this kind of thing is even needed, but this university offers special coasters to students during parties that let them test for the presence of drugs in their drinks.
48) Mirror Mirror On The Wall
In this cooking class, a mirror has been placed at just the right angle to let the kids see exactly what the teacher is doing and copy her actions in their own recipes.
49) Clinically Proven
Exam season is a stressful time for every student, and many young people struggle to find ways to calm down and relax at such a worrying moment of their lives. To help out, this school put boxes of bubble wrap outside the exam rooms. After all, what could be more relaxing than popping some bubbles?
50) Making Recycling Fun
Here’s a fun little way to inspire little ones and older kids alike to recycle more often. These trash cans have been decorated to look like popular animated characters.
51) Splish Splash
Kids love to splash around in puddles, so why not make puddles a real part of their playtime? This Japanese kindergarten has been designed to collect rainwater, which is then funneled down into the building and used to form big puddles for the little ones to enjoy.
52) Everything You Need
If any students happen to forget something important like a pen, pencil, or notebook, they can buy another from any of these mini vending machines.
53) All The H2O You Need
This school has a water fountain for students to grab a quick drink and stay hydrated throughout the day, as well as a separate water dispenser designed for filling up bottles.
54) Ha!
If any students happen to need some charging or USB cables, they can always find some on Whoopi Goldberg’s head.
55) Playtime Never Ends
This Japanese kindergarten has been built all around the outside of a tree, letting the kids play and engage with nature all at the same time. Looks like so much fun!
56) Technological Trees
This school decided to label certain trees with QR codes. The students can scan the code and find out more about the species of tree they’re looking at.
57) A Visual Periodic Table
Learning the periodic table is never easier for any student. It’s just a bunch of letters and numbers, after all. But this version actually features real-life examples or photos of each element to give the kids some context.
58) Very Clever
This piece of homework has a QR code in the top corner. When scanned, it takes students to an instructional YouTube video, made by the teacher, to guide them through the subject and help them out if they get stuck.
59) The Right Angle
Here’s another cool little idea for math teachers to try out. All the angles from 0 to 180 degrees have been drawn on the floor to help students understand better as the door opens up.
60) One More Slide
The Technical University of Munich added these stunning slides to the center of their building, giving students and faculty members alike a fun and thrilling way to get from the top floors down to the ground level.
These awesome educational institutions are setting an amazing example for others to follow, bringing the learning experience into the 21st century with style and helping to make every day more enjoyable for both students and faculty members alike. Which was your favorite of these super school innovations? Share the list around with friends and family to get their opinion.