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Session convened by Christine Durso from Speyer Legacy School- cdurso@speyerlegacyschool.org. She is happy to have visitors. Kindergarten - 8th Grade Class is called Creative and Computational Thinking - scheduled as its own subject. Other teachers have become makers too - especially when coached.
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Homer Bucket - 5 gallons -- bright orange - you can put a lot of stuff in one. Bakery icing buckets also work - they are free.
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Youth size hammers, nails, wood Toothpicks, marshmallows, gum drops Knitting & sewing stuff Instamorph (highly recommended) This is a non-toxic tactile material. You need boiling water. You can knead it into shape and then it hardens as it cools. Great for creating prototypes. 3D Doodler pens/Solid Doodle - like a glue gun meets a color pencil - about $100. Ipods/$20 prepaid phones (MIT App inventor - drag and drop) 3D cameras to make VR films (Fly 360 - like a go pro or Ricco Feder S- for static shots) Students are very enthusiastic about this. Students could make 3D tours of the things they are working on. You could match older students with younger students for this.
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Students often store the things they are working on in their lockers.

Good idea to start small.

Make teacher meets with students twice in a six day cycle. //You// days and //me// days. Me days - e.g. instruction on Prezi (to present ideas generated) or Bitstrips - can create scenes with this. You days - students choose. Some do coding. One student wanted to make a lactose-free frappecino that tastes good, so they bought a blender. Another student made flubber soap. Students are going to make their own Google cardboard. Teacher will supply lenses and magnets.

__Printers__ 3D printing can be a huge time sink, expensive. Many times things don't work out. Misalignment problems. King Low Heywood Thomas School - Certification program for students to learn how to run the equipment (Westport Library has certification standards) Cube printers. Very large, huge learning curve. There is now a mini 3D printer that costs $300. Works well. Liquid plastic resin printer - takes a long time - impressive results 3D printer that uses paper also.

Nao robot - a two foot tall humanoid looking robot that is coded in Python. Around $10,000.

Power tools can be color coded. E.g. green labels - kids can use with no supervision, yellow - need supervision, red - adults only

How do you introduce a makerspace? Take information to your admin about project based learning. Find out what teachers want to do, then find out how you can use technology as a key part of the project.

There is no maker curriculum or even an agreement on what a maker space is.

Subscribe to //Make// magazine and go to the Maker Fair in Queens. Engineer Girl - great website.

Studying Billion Dollar Oyster Project - making rafts Civil War - Google Earth - virtual tour Revolutionary War - Forge by Laurie Halsie Anderson - students have to identify a problem encountered at Valley Forge and then research and make a solution. Eighth grade students making their own graduation video - takes a year -conduct exit interviews etc.
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