Are you thinking about designing your own makerspace? Click here to check out a list of equipment, tools, supplies, and materials I’ve used in my experience in teaching in a makerspace learning environment. This webpage also provides links to resources for getting started in making your own makerspace.
Check out Design Thinking in the Classroom, a book that helps educators teach and model the design thinking process and mindsets to help learners develop into creative, future-ready problem-solvers! I believe the goal of teaching and modeling design thinking is bring student empowerment. It is a great methodology for learners to use when solving meaningful problems and improving real world experiences in project-based learning, STEM, service education, and inquiry-based learning.
You can purchase the book at Indiebound, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
Gene MacLachlan and I created an after-school club for parents to join their children in learning how to program microcontrollers to create cool robots.
I would like to give a special thanks to the parents and students of this club, Danielle Rich for supporting us, and Gene MacLachlan for making this club a reality.
Intro music by Ryan Little “Summer Dreams”: https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle
Background Music from EpidemicSound.com – “All The Right Moves” by Gavin Luke
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Third graders used social science concepts and took on the role of lobbyists who sought to persuade members of the government to create policies that will protect a specific endangered species and fund the creation of a wildlife sanctuary for the species. They then designed a virtual wildlife sanctuary to help protect the animals and increase their population through selective breeding. They used the Scratch to code their virtual program.
Special thanks to Sarah Donaldson, Stacy Trinh, Sally Merriam, Jon Barry, Jeremy Jacobsen, Megan Godek, and Heidi Peterson.
Intro music by Ryan Little “Summer Dreams”: https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle
Background Music from EpidemicSound.com – “Upward Bound” by Gavin Luke
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Resource for Dark Maned Lions
This video showcases a PBL, transdisciplinary project where students used the design thinking method to create an instrument for their music teacher, Mr. David Woods.
Intro music by Ryan Little “Summer Dreams”: https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle
Background Music from EpidemicSound.com – “Call Me Out” by Loving Caliber
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This video showcases a STEM, PBL, and transdisciplinary project where students used the design thinking method to create a mechanical float for a specific world language festival.
Install Birdbrain Server and Scratch
https://www.hummingbirdkit.com/learni…
Hummingbird Duo Coding Cards: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder…
I would like to give a special thanks to the following people for making this project possible. Karen Luu, Diana Caudill, Charolette Yao, Heidi Peterson, Gene MacLachlan, and Danielle Rich.
Intro Music by Ryan Little “Summer Dreams”: https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle
Background Music from EpidemicSound.com – “Not this time” by Simon Gribb
This video describes how IDEO transitioned itself from a design company that designed tangible products to a company that designs solutions to real world experiences. They use the design thinking process to observe, ideate, prototype and test solutions to these real world experiences.
NASA JPL Video: 7 Minutes of Terror https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1090
Intro to Project-Based Learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08D0dBGIzYQ
STEM Education Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCijW7ikeYQ
Special thanks to:
Elizabeth DiRenzo – STEM Specialist https://twitter.com/iTeachSTEAM
Becca Goess – Design Specialist https://twitter.com/missrgoess
5th Grade Team – Erin Curtiss, Stephanie Cory, Jay Keshaw, David Archer, and Megan Greene
Librarian – Megan Greene
Intro Drone Footage by Gary Johnston – https://twitter.com/GaryJohnston1
Music by Ryan Little https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle
Intro/Outro: “Summer Dreams”
Background: “Soulful”
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This is a tour of my classroom for the new year. Our learning spaces were moved from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor over the summer. Special thanks to my wife for recording the video!
Music by Ryan Little https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle
Intro music: “Falling Down”
Background Music: “Bless You”
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