Connecting Poetry to Making and Design-Thinking
April is National Poetry Month. Our students are creating a collection of poetry, writing daily, and choosing their top 5 poems to create a multimedia journal. This will culminate with a Poetry Slam in May….
Challenges to Progressing to Making in the Classroom
It’s March, and the project is blooming…in pieces and places. The struggle I am still having is how can I bring the actual “making” out of the “makerspace” in the learning commons is the space…
Progression of the Coding Club
In December, the Coding Club at QV shared the projects they had been working on from the start of the year. Representatives from IEC Hamilton, intermediate teachers, and administration attended. 5 students were able to…
Kinder Makerspace
Something great is happening at Queen Victoria…..the kindergarten staff is creating a makerspace! And although this was not part of our original TLLP proposal, we’ve tried to support it by sharing resources and using release time to…
Design Process–Student Reflections
You’ve had the opportunity to work through the design process and create a prototype. Now it’s time to think about the process and share with others what you learned. Consider these questions in our response,…
Some Online Makerspace Resources
Teaching the Design Process in Makerspaces An Educator’s Guide to the “Four Cs”–Preparing 21st Century Students for a Global Society 15 Ideas To Go Beyond Makers Space… Building a Makers Culture http://www.makereducation.com/ Institute of Design at…
The pedagogy–design process
So far, most of our blogging has been about the physical environment and the materials/tools we have incorporated into our makerspace. The clubs have been so successful, it’s easy to write about them! But as…
Green Screen
We have this amazing clothing rack at the school. It was used to store clothing donations for our graduates. It was going to be thrown out at the end of last year, but I immediately…
Our Makerspace, Our Makers
In our original TLLP proposal, the maker resources were to be used in both a dedicated makerspace and in three classrooms (Brian’s, Carole’s and Irene’s) with the hope of comparing the successes of both. Students…
SEWING CLUB
A dedicated work space, a few deeply discounted bundles of material sourced at Lens MillHouse, many meters of washed and upcycled curtains, sheets, pillow cases and other random fabric finds from our local thrift stores,…