Take a short break to contemplate how school life would be with the best makerspace. Wouldn’t it be great if every school had its own makerspace culture?
Every makerspace requires the right content and alignment of skills. The success of a makerspace depends on factors like perseverance, engagement, satisfaction, creative solving methods, flow and response. Maker movements are growing rapidly. At the same time, websites and books that offer content for makerspaces is on the rise. These resources are carefully designed to share, envision, collaborate and experiment on young makers.
With all this being said, here are few resources that can be found in the best makerspaces. Whether it is an engineering makerspace or a creative library, you are bound to come across some of these resources.
Let’s begin with Scratch
As suggested by its name, Scratch is all about understanding the basic skills of life. It is a creation from MIT. The resource encourages computational thinking. The tool stresses on systematical work, creative reasoning and collaborative effort. With its help, students can build games, animations and interactive story boards. Scratch is absolutely free! And, it allows students to share their works in an online platform.
Engineering makerspaces will have SparkFun
SparkFun is a medium for learning electronics. It is a splendid learning tool with many hands-on opportunities. Most makerspaces have electronics like computers, calculators and printers. In a typical setting, children are allowed to break, build and explore through electronics. With the help of SparkFun, this activity becomes even more interesting. It is based on a curriculum that is carefully designed to mature the student’s foundational skills.
Hand2Mind
Hand2Mind strongly believes in learning by “actually” doing things. It encourages parents, students and teachers to keep trying new things. With a history of five decades, Hand2Mind is used by administrators, teachers and parents throughout the country. The materials (more than 5000 options to choose from) are reliable, and of high-quality. Whether you are looking for STEM or science or math, Hand2Mind has all the supportive materials you need. With the help of Hand2Mind, you will be able to bring the maker’s mind and hands together.
Learning to smile with STEM: How to Smile
Finally, you have “How To Smile”. This is a collection of educational materials for young school goers. How To Smile is purely activity based. It was designed by people who have dedicated their lives to engineering, technology, math and science (in other words STEM).