Students at Bear Branch Elementary in Magnolia Independent School District recently transformed their library into an arcade - using only cardboard, tape and paper. Students at Magnolia Junior High ...

In September, Sacred Heart School kicked off its first makerspace challenge. A makerspace is a common place where students share interests, ideas, equipment and knowledge to create, invent, learn and ...

Rachelle Dené Poth is a Spanish and STEAM emerging technology teacher. She is also an EdTech IT Influencer and holds a Juris Doctor and a Ph.D. in instructional technology. In addition to teaching, ...

At one time, you were probably a young child, stuck in a classroom, wishing you were outside playing. If you’re now a parent, you have plenty of experience trying to convince your child that learning ...

Midway Independent School District has joined the makerspace movement, turning school libraries into workshops where children can tinker and prototype their ideas in cardboard, plastic or pixels. The ...

Courtney Pepe is the proud Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction at A. Harry Moore of New Jersey City University. In the 2015 New Media Consortium Horizon Report, makerspaces were recognized as one ...

“Yes, we have a laser cutter and yes, it’s totally awesome, but it’s only good at one thing. Cutting things with a laser. A piece of cardboard can be a submarine. A sheet of fabric can be an ocean. A ...

School "makerspaces" use readily available materials to provoke inquiry, helping students move beyond consumption to creation. At West Feliciana Middle School, students in Katherine Reed's class ...

SALINE, MI - A group of third graders filed into the Makerspace classroom and stood eagerly in pairs behind rows of tables at Saline's Pleasant Ridge Elementary School on Friday, Nov. 10. There were ...

Challenge-based learning projects in the makerspace have many benefits for students, and can engage and get them excited about new projects. In “Challenge-Based Learning in the School Library ...

Dumpster diving and dollar stores. Purse-shaped post-it's and animal lubricant. When you're building a makerspace on a budget, you learn that resources are everywhere—and they aren't always what you ...

This article is part of the collection: How to Build Your Makerspace. Rarely in schools do students have an opportunity to create freely and set all of the constraints of a project, but in the ...