The What
A place for students to explore.
What is a makerspace?
Higher order thinking skills
What is a benefit of a makerspace?
Libraries are usually the largest.
What is the biggest classroom in the school?
Lack of materials and money
What is a fear in starting a makerspace?
Seating should be flexible, easy to move, and offering standing or sitting options.
What kind of seating in makerspace?
Using, tinkering, experimenting, and creating.
What are the 4 stages in the uTEC model?
Aligns with STEM/STEAM activities.
What is another benefit of a makerspace?
Libraries are for thinking, creating, sharing, and growing.
What are the 4 main standards for a library?
Cabinets in the school and at home of unused materials.
Where can you find makerspace materials?
Research materials and note taking tools help in a makerspace.
What are helpful tools for the makerspace?
Students continue to play with material and change others creations.
What is the tinkering stage?
Critical thinking, Creativity, Communication,Collaboration, and Citizenship
What are the 5c's?
Libraries provide a space for knowledge, books, and learning with access and tools.
What does a library already provide?
Going through the recycling and asking for parents to send materials that they would normally throw away.
What is a "makerspace junkie"?
The space should inspire and invite people to it.
How should the space feel?
Students create and invent products or ideas with different materials.
What is the creating stage?
Hands-on activities make connections more meaningful and learning to be lasting.
How does a makerspace connect with classroom curriculum?
Storage of information
What do libraries store?
Origami, painting, coloring. spirographs, crossword puzzles, and drawing
What are some paper makerspace activites?
Various areas for collaboration, individual work, station work, and meetings.
What kind of areas should there be in a makerspace?
Student build, try, fail, repurpose, make changes, and test.
What is the experimenting stage?
Growth mindeset develops skills through effort and failure.
How is a growth mindset different than a fixed mindset?
What does a makerspace offer in the classroom?
Makey makey kits, Beebots, Ozobots, Osmo, Sphero, 3D printers, and iPads
What are some examples of technology for makerspace?
Electrical outlets, internet access, sink if possible, and storage space.
What accessories should the space include?