Download - 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 [email protected]
@createdbysteph
Shawn Grimes [email protected]
@shawng
www.digitalharborfoundation.org @DHFBaltimore
