classroom makerspace: your guide to inexpensive making in the classroom
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Classroom Makerspace:
Your Guide to Inexpensive Making in the Classroom
Shawn & Steph Grimes January 2015
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
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
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
When to Make• After School
• Open Lunch
• Before School
• Centers or Stations
• Innovation Day
• Family Night
Funding a Makerspace• Use part of your budget
• Community Fundraising
• Crowdfunding
• Donors Choose, Rally.org, Give Corps
• Local company sponsorships
• Grants
• Family Donations
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
MaKey MaKey
$45 - Turns anything conductive into a keyboard - Playdoh Game Controller - Veggie Piano -
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
Contact Us
Steph Grimes
@createdbysteph
Shawn Grimes
@shawng
www.digitalharbor.org @DHFBaltimore