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How are educators harnessing the energy of the maker movement to inspire student exploration across multiple subjects? Discover resources and share advice.
Many schools claim to be “STEAM Schools”, and yet their model of implementation is weak or simply brushes the surface of what STEAM truly requires. The core belief is that STEAM has a foundation of integration at it’s core, which means that each curricular area should be both taught in its own right, as well as connected through standards and assessments when used in tandem. This brief articles goes over the basics of the STEAM process.
An article by Edudemic on the importance of STE(A)M education over STEM. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects are the focal point of popular integrated learning systems. However, voices are calling out for the “A” in “arts” to turn STEM into STEAM. What does the debate involve, and what do educators and students think about it?
What if creating software was so easy even kids could do it? Writing, photography, and video have been democratized by the internet. But what about software itself? Programming is a potent form of creative expression, imagine if anyone could do it. This is our mission. Join us.
Tynker is a creative computing platform where millions of kids have learned to program and built games, Minecraft mods, apps and more. Tynker offers self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as an engaging programming curriculum for schools.
Every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science. Code.org® is a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing participation by women and underrepresented students of color. Their vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science. We believe computer science should be part of core curriculum, alongside other courses such as biology, chemistry or algebra.
Twelve-year-old Sylvia Todd produces the Super Awesome Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show, a popular web show with do-it-yourself craft and science projects for kids.
On online, DIY summer camp for Makers aged 7–12! Connect with other kids or experiment with DIY tutorials.
Maker Media is a global platform for connecting Makers with each other and serves a growing community of Makers who bring a DIY mindset to technology. Whether as hobbyists or professionals, Makers are creative, resourceful and curious, developing projects that demonstrate how they can interact with the world around them.
Super cool DIY projects for kids. Includes tutorials, areas where kids can post their finished projects, and allows kids to earn badges for all of the projects they complete.
Articles, Coding, & eLearning
Fun Stuff: Gizmos & Gadgets
Makey Makey is an invention kit for the 21st century. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It's a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything inbetween:
Inspire a love of learning through play. Cubelets are robot blocks that make it fast and easy to engage children as young as four in learning by building robots. There’s no wrong way to build with Cubelets, so it is remarkably easy to transform these blocks into brilliant bundles of robotic curiosity.
Minecraft: Education Edition is an open world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.
Expand your child’s horizons with the help of Ozobot - the tiny smart robot. There is no end to the possibilities, as your child creates a different landscape of adventures, games and coding with Ozobot. Imagine, a learning toy that opens the doors of computer science, STEM education, robotics and coding, making your child one step ahead of the learning curve in school and in life.
The Kano Computer Kit is a computer anyone can make™. You build and code it yourself. It’s a fun way to make, play and express your creativity with technology. The kit comes with 10 plug-and-play components including: a Raspberry Pi, a wireless keyboard, a DIY speaker, a custom case, power and HDMI cables, memory card, a USB power supply, an illustrated story book and 4 sheets of stickers an d case cards.
littleBits is a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks that empower you to invent anything, from your own remote controlled car, to a smart home device. The Bits snap together with magnets, no soldering, no wiring, no programming needed. The library has over 60 modules and growing. Every module works with every other in millions of combinations, you'll never run out of things to make. Grow your library and expand your creative possibilities.
Dash is a real robot, charged and ready to play out of the box. Responding to voice, navigating objects, dancing, and singing, Dash is the robot you always dreamed of having. Use Wonder, Blockly, and other apps to create new behaviors for Dash — doing more with robotics than ever possible. No books or camps needed!
Lego is spearheading the robotics world with Lego Mindstorms, a buildable and programmable robot. Their programmer App makes building and programming your LEGO robots faster, smarter and more fun than ever. Download the FREE app to your tablet, choose the robot you would like to build, then bring it to life with the improved programming tool. The action is at your fingertips.
Puzzlets combines hands-on play with interactive gaming to form one seamless experience, engaging the mind and teaching the player new ways of thinking. The starter set comes with everything you need and setup is simple. Puzzlets connects wirelessly to a personal device like an iPad or Android tablet.
What's this item about? What makes it interesting? Write a catchy description to grab your audience's attention...Discover and learn about science, engineering, and technology through seriously fun hands-on activities. Kits include creative, innovative STEM projects, lueprints, detailed step-by-step instructions, Tinker Zine magazine, & links to online tutorials with tips and tricks.
MindWare is a creator, manufacturer, and distributor of Brainy Toys for people of all ages. The diverse product line includes games, puzzles, brainteasers, arts and crafts activities, mysteries, mazes and more. MindWare's goal is to place high quality toys that teach and entertain into the hands of children and adults.
At GoldieBlox, our goal is to get girls building. We’re here to help level the playing field in every sense of the phrase. By tapping into girls' strong verbal skills, our story + construction set bolsters confidence in spatial skills while giving young inventors the tools they need to build and create amazing things.
Circuit Scribe is a rollerball pen that writes with non-toxic conductive silver ink. It makes creating circuits as easy as doodling.
Learning Resources® is a leading global manufacturer of innovative, hands-on educational products trusted by teachers and parents and loved by children.
The smallest circular 3D pen in the world.
The award winning ScienceWiz line got its start in 1995 when we released our first title ScienceWiz Electricity. Our line of science kits stemmed from Dr. Penny Norman's volunteer work teaching science in her children's elementary schools and her ScienceWiz after school and summer programs. Games & products for elementary kids.
WEDGiTS are fun and challenging, multi-dimensional building sets. WEDGiTS pieces can be nested, stacked, linked and wedged together to create hundreds of designs. Encouraging imagination, creativity and group participation, WEDGiTS offer endless hours of creative challenge and entertaining fun. WEDGiTS are so much fun, your child won’t realize you've selected the toy as a learning tool.