Lisa DickThis year marks our first full year with a Classroom Makerspace, and WE LOVE IT! Each Friday student were in charge on their own learning and could select from classroom resources or bring their own. Pretty much the only rule was “you have to be making.”
Our Makey Makey’s were a huge hit! They even found ways to have video game challenges by making their own game controllers. Other creations included guitars, paper pianos, and more.
We also made numerous items with Snap Circuits from FM radios (yes, seriously!) to flying objects to a lie detector. Ok, the lie detector wasn’t exactly accurate, but while trying to figure out how accurate they determined what affected the results and it’s approximate accuracy.
We had a variety of other electronic and robot options such as the Arduino, Lego Ev3, BoeBot, and Sphero. Sphero was definately a favorite, but they did great getting started with coding using the other options.
Of course there was time for art, from drawing to learning Adobe Photoshop to glow in the dark goop and more including photography:)
Have you joined the Makerspace movement? Get started today…you will LOVE IT TOO:))
