Sylvia’s Super Awesome Maker Show
Sylvia’s DIY webshow on everything cool and worth making. visit Sylvia’s site
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SparkTruck: A Maker Journey
SparkTruck is an educational build-mobile! Our mission is to spread the fun of hands-on learning to kids all across the USA, empowering teachers and students to find their creative potential. The SparkTruck Movie The short documentary, SparkTruck: A Maker Journey, tells the story of SparkTruck’s inaugural road trip across the United States in the summer[…]
Maker Education Initiative’s YouTube Channel
Maker Ed’s mission is to create more opportunities for all young people to develop confidence, creativity, and interest in science, technology, engineering, math, arts, and learning as a whole through making. view feed
How to “Sketch” with Electronics
Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expensive — or was, until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools to treat electronics just like paper and pen. In this talk from TEDYouth 2011, Buechley shows some of her charming designs, like a paper piano you can sketch and then play.
Hands-on Science with Squishy Circuits
In a zippy demo at TED U, AnnMarie Thomas shows how two different kinds of homemade play dough can be used to demonstrate electrical properties — by lighting up LEDs, spinning motors, and turning little kids into circuit designers.
Writing as Making
I live at the epicenter of the artisanal crafts movement: Oakland, CA. My friends make their own chicken coops, meyer lemon marmalade, cocktail bitters, meat smokers, puppets. Full disclosure: I myself have taken part in said movement, most recently by brewing my own beer — the results of which have been hit or miss, and therefore not[…]
Soft Circuits: Crafting e-Fashion with DIY Electronics
Soft Circuits introduces students to the world of wearable technology. Using Modkit, an accessible DIY electronics toolkit, students learn to create e-textile cuffs, “electrici-tee” shirts, and solar-powered backpacks. Students also learn the importance of one component to the whole—how, for example, changing the structure of LED connections immediately affects the number of LEDs that light[…]
Script Changers: Digital Storytelling with Scratch
Script Changers shows the ways that stories offer a lens for seeing the world as a series of systems. It provides opportunities for students to create interactive and animated stories about creating positive change in their communities. These projects utilize the Scratch visual programming environment. view book
Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff
Book by Curt Gabrielson. After-school and out-of-school programs—as well as home schooling—have been growing steadily for nearly a decade, but instructors are still searching for high-interest content that ties into science standards without the rigidity of current classroom canon. The author draws on more than 20 years of experience doing hands-on science to facilitate tinkering:[…]