Classroom Makerspace: Your Guide to Inexpensive Making in the Classroom

Classroom Makerspace:

Your Guide to Inexpensive Making in the Classroom

Shawn & Steph Grimes January 2015

Logistics

• Restroooms

• Breaks

• WiFi

• Today’s Meet Backchannel:

• today.io/x4p0

Who Are We?

Shawn Grimes Steph Grimes

Technologist App Developer

Director of Technology Maker

@shawng

Former Teacher App Designer

Director of Education Maker

@createdbysteph

Agenda• About Digital Harbor Foundation

• How We Started Making

• Maker Vocabulary

• Why Create a Makerspace?

• How to Create a Makerspace

• Project Ideas

• Let’s Make Something

• Q&A

Digital Harbor Foundation

•Tech Center

•Curriculum

•Community

•Center of Excellence

Rec Center

Tech CenterAfter-School & Summer Maker Programs for Youth

Vocabulary

• Making - learning by doing / creating

• Maker - someone who creates and shares

• Makerspace - places to design & create

• Maker Movement - growing community of makers, often centered around new technologies

Why Create a Makerspace for Your Program?

Peek into a Makerspace

Failure & Iteration

Collaboration

Creativity

Engaged youth

Open-Ended

Reflection

Youth driven, Teacher supported

Curiosity & Interest

The Time is Now

• Common Core, NGSS, ISTE Nets

• Maker Movement is gaining STEAM

• Prepare youth for the challenges that will face them

• We don’t know the careers of the future

#NationOfMakers

How to Create a Makerspace in Your Program

Getting Started• Start Small:

• ArtBots

• LED Name Tags

• Kits

• Increment:

• MaKey MaKey

• Scratch

Try It Out

• Global Cardboard Challenge

• Caine’s Arcade

• Sept & Oct

Types of MakerspacesMakerspace in a Box

Types of MakerspacesPop-Up Space

Types of MakerspacesDesignated Space

When to Make• After School

• Open Lunch

• Before School

• Centers or Stations

• Innovation Day

• Family Night

What Does it Cost?

Makerspace in a Box:

Less than$200

Funding a Makerspace• Use part of your budget

• Community Fundraising

• Crowdfunding

• Donors Choose, Rally.org, Give Corps

• Local company sponsorships

• Grants

• Family Donations

Project Ideas

Wind Tube

$40 in materials + craft suppliesExplore aerodynamics

Art Bots

< $2 each - Simple art robots Pool Noodles, Electric Toothbrush, Battery, Markers

Rubber Bands

Light Painting

$4 each - Simple light machines Plastic Cups, Pool Noodles, Battery, Hobby Motor,

LEDs, Cardboard, Tape

Vortex Canon

Straw Rockets

Paper Rockets

Paper Circuits

CD Rom Hovercraft

MaKey MaKey

$45 - Turns anything conductive into a keyboard - Playdoh Game Controller - Veggie Piano -

Tackkwww.tackk.com

3D Printer

Start at $600 - Print almost anything in plastic

Cricut Paper Cutter

Let’s Make Something!LED Name Tag

LEDsLight Emitting Diode

Coin Cell Batteries

LED Connection Diagram

All You Need To Write Down

HTTP://DHF.IO/ROOM2MAKE

http://dhf.io/class-maker

Resources• http://dhf.io/class-maker

• #MakerEd chat on Twitter (Tues at 9pm)

• Book: Invent to Learn by Gary Stager & Sylvia Martinez

• Book: Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction by Dr. Griffith Saul, and others

• Book: How to Build a Hovercraft: Air Cannons, Magnetic Motors, and 25 Other Amazing DIY Science Projects by Stephen Voltz & Fritz Grobe

• Book: Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making by Curt Gabrielson

• Make: Magazine & Website

Questions?

Contact Us

Steph Grimes

[email protected]

@createdbysteph

Shawn Grimes

[email protected]

@shawng

www.digitalharbor.org @DHFBaltimore

http://www.digitalharbor.org