What Is The Maker Movement?

What is the Maker Movement?

Collaboratively created by Vicki Dabrowka &

other Maker Lab Teachers for Teacher

Education

Maker: Defined

What Does It Mean to Be A “Maker?”

At the Heart of Making

Being A Maker Involves 21st Century Skills

Video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9lvW6ZY-Gs

Talk About TinkeringTinkering open play is a great chance to talk with your kids about trial and error and failure. Experimenting helps kids develop logic skills, important for daily life, not just engineering. Some good open-ended questions to ask:

• What did you design?• How does it work?• What parts were harder than you expected to design /

draw / build / make ?• Does this look and work like what you thought it would

when you started? Why or why not?• What would you do differently next time?• Every kid can be an engineer, it just takes trying! As Rosie’s

Aunt Rose said, “The only true failure comes if you quit.”

Read more at http://amomwithalessonplan.com/tinkering-station/#O4H6vxUErwdTQvsp.99

Can you design a bridge to support a tray of pennies?

October 2014 PreSchool

We got our hands on the magnet wall! :)

Maker Monday!Oct 2014 PreK

Today's Maker Monday experience had to do with height. Prekindergarten students were asked to use various kinds of blocks to try to build a "tall" tower. They were asked to think about what their base should look like in order to create a structure with height. Students experimented with various size and shape blocks. They discussed what happen when their creation fell down. They revised, redesigned, and rebuilt! Way to go!!

Counting & CreatingOct 2014

Kindergarten

As the students continued to explore numbers and quantities up to 9, they engaged in a variety of activities to help them associate the appropriate numeral to specific quantities. One of their favorite activities required students to create a structure using 9 straws and 9 connectors. In many cases, students had to revise their original designs when they discovered that their structure would require more or fewer building materials than they were allotted. Please enjoy the pictures of finished products.

Maker Lab Projects: 1st—5th

Grade• Bristle bot

• Paper flying thingies

Maker Lab Projects: 1st—5th

Grade• Conductive Greeting Card

• Squishy Circuits

Maker Lab Projects: 1st—5th

Grade• Spin Art Bot

• Oregon Trail Wagon

Maker Lab Projects: 1st—5th

Grade• Light Follow Bot

• Arduino LED Project

Maker Lab Projects: 1st—5th

Grade• Makey-Makey Game

• Arduino Project

• Arduino Robot

Children’s Books on Engineering

Earth Day 2015 Maker Event Pictures

From http://play.smilebox.com/SpreadMoreHappy/4e4449314f4459344e5442384f4459334d5459784e773d3d0d0a

• Maker Materials Wanted!

• We need your help! We are trying to stock our closets for our maker lab sessions, so please be on the lookout for the following household items. Please do not go out and buy any of these things, but if you happen to have them sitting around needing a new house, send them our way. Much of our maker time is open ended creation and experimentation, so if you come across something cool that you think we could turn into something else (even if it is not on the list), send it in! Thank you for your help!

• · Sponges• · Buttons• · Small boxes• · Stickers• · Various adhesive materials (Velcro, magnets, sticky paper, glue dots)• · Tape• · Clips• · Zip ties• · Brads• · Stringing lights• · Plastic containers• · Toilet paper/wrapping paper/paper towel rolls• · Plastic eggs• · Small balls/marbles of various sizes• · Wine corks• · Colored paper clips• · Twist ties• · Fabric and felt• · Lids/screw caps/bottle top• · Bubble wrap• · Washers, Nuts, Bolts, Wing nuts• · Dowel rods• · Spindles/spools• · Plastic & paper cups/plates/cutlery• · Aluminum foil/corrugated paper• · Packing peanuts or packaging materials• · Wrapping paper remnants• · Ribbon/Twine• · Straws

Making & Tinkering in the Classroom

Resources

• http://www.mymakedo.com/

• https://diy.org/skills/sort/alpha

• http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/projects

• http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/marble-machines

• http://teacherspayteachers.com/

• http://www.pinterest.com/smartchick/stem-activities/

• www.amomwithalessonplan.com

• www.tinkerlab.com

• http://www.andreabeaty.com/rosie-revere-engineer.html