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New Canaan High School & David C Barrow Elementary ideas

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New Canaan High School & David C Barrow Elementary ideas

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https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/07/31/launching-a-makerspace-lessons-learned-from-a-transformed-school-library/

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We are just starting our makerspace this year. My kids are asking about it and I'm trying to figure out how to schedule it. My library is run on a fixed schedule (sigh😞) so I'm going to have to get creative. Like the idea posted here

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I was greatly inspired by a TL Virtual Cafe session I attended online a few weeks ago (thanks to the Twitter PD community at #tlchat). After hearing so many great ideas from library media specialists/ teacher librarians from all over the country, I decided to give it a try in our own school library. We have been slowly assembling all the needed pieces to start a Makerspace this year! We had planned to have this program during our two lunch sessions (1st lunch- grades 10-12 and 2nd lunch grades 8 and 9). A last minute schedule change kept us from having the program for grades 10-12 this time.

We decided to have 5 Makerspace stations in the library. They were all very successful, and the students that participated were very engaged.

We had a 3D printer station led by two of our students from EAST. They had designed a replica of the Willis Tower (formally the Sears Tower) using Google Sketch Up Make and Netfabb. We decided to print several of these, and we gave them away at the end of the session in a drawing. The student leaders explained how the printer worked to those that visited them.

We had a student that brought his Lego collection to share. Several students visited the Lego station and had fun building quick projects.

We set up a table with Jenga for another fun Makerspace station. Several students enjoyed playing this building game.

We also have a Sphero in the library. We had that available for students experimentation. It was a very popular station.

The most popular station was the "deconstruction" station. Our technology department donated some non-functional computer and networking components for our students to take apart. The kids loved taking the computer apart most of all.

It was a great first Makerspace program for our students! We cannot wait to try this during our grade 10-12 lunch period! I encourage you to try a Makerspace in your school library. It's a great place for students to connect, hack, and create in the library!

Before you go, check out our student led 3D printing lunch library program here.

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I was greatly inspired by a TL Virtual Cafe session I attended online a few weeks ago (thanks to the Twitter PD community at #tlchat). After hearing so many great ideas from library media specialists/ teacher librarians from all over the country, I decided to give it a try in our own school library.

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Stony Evans, TL at Lakeside High School

We usually have our 3D printer available for learners to use each day. We encourage it.

We like to have Makerspace days for students during lunch periods. We have found  all grades 8-12 seem to enjoy this (especially the 8th & 9th graders). I'm hoping to add Minecraft to our Makerspace options this year.

This is an article about how we set up Makerspace days in the library: http://goo.gl/VEr4tH

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Teacher Librarian, Amana Elementary

I am going to use this Makerspace Rotation Chart as we kick off our Mobile Makerspace in the library.

Every week when the kids come to the library for their time, four students will be able to use the Makerspace.  The name cards are laminated and we will use dry erase makers to cross out the names each week.