add a makerspace to your classroom

Add a Makerspace to your Classroom

2013 MSEA Convention

Who Are We?

Shawn Grimes Steph Grimes

TechnologistApp Developer

Director of TechnologyMaker

@shawng

Former TeacherApp Designer

Director of CurriculumMaker

@createdbysteph

Our Projects

Rec Center

What We DoDigital Harbor Foundation Tech Center

Today’s Agenda

• Making, Makers, Makerspaces

• Why create a classroom makerspace?

• How to create a classroom makerspace

• Let’s Make Something!

• Questions

Vocabulary

• Making - the act of creating something

• Maker - a person that makes or produces something

• Makerspace - publicly accessible places to design & create

Why Create a Classroom

Makerspace?

Value of Making for Youth

• Creative problem solving

• Learn how to learn

• High engagement, High interest

• Supplement curriculum based learning

• Passion-based learning

• Everyone can be a maker

The Time is Now

• Prepare youth for tomorrow by preparing them for today

• Common Core, Next Gen Science Standards, ISTE Nets

• We don’t know the careers of the future

How to Create a Classroom Makerspace

What Do You Do In A Maker Space?

• Start Small:

• Kits

• Small Projects - Art Bots

• Increment:

• Makey Makey

• Scratch

Starting Small

• Caine’s Cardboard Challenge

• http://cainesarcade.com

Types Of Maker Spaces

• Designated Space

• Modular Space

• Makerspace in a Box

How?• Open Lunch

• After school

• Before school

• Innovation Day

• Tinker Time (stations)

• Family Night

Funding A Makerspace

• Use part of your budget

• DonorsChoose campaign (www.donorschoose.org/)

• Seek grants

• Community fundraising through your club

• Local company sponsorships

Peek into a Makerspace

Straightforward “assessment” -does it work or not?

Collaboration

Creativity

Engaged youth

Open-Ended

Reflection

Youth driven, Teacher supported

Curiosity

Project Ideas

Makey Makey

$45 - turns anything conductive into a keyboardVegetable piano, play-doh game controller

Starting around $300Print almost anything in plastic

3D Printer

Wind Tube

$40 in materials + craft suppliesExplore aerodynamics

Let’s MakeSomething!

Hands On Activity

• http://bit.ly/Class2MakerSpace

• #MakerEd chat on Twitter (Tues at 7pm)

Resources

Questions?

Contact Us

Steph Grimes steph@digitalharbor.org

@createdbysteph

Shawn Grimes shawn@digitalharbor.org

@shawng

www.digitalharborfoundation.org @DHFBaltimore