Makerspace at Byron Public Schools
If you can imagine it...You can make it!
What is a MakerSpace?
What is a MakerSpace?
What are the characteristics of a Maker?
Innovative and Resourceful
Making is innovative and resourceful. Makers build off the ideas of others and choose the best tools for the job.
Intrinsic Motivation
Makers are intrinsically motivated. They identify their own challenges and solve new problems. Making provides ample opportunities to deeply understand difficult concepts.
Curious and Creative Risk Takers
Makers take risks and iterate from “failures” to achieve success. Making fosters character building traits collectively known as grit, including creativity, curiosity, open-mindedness, persistence, social responsibility, and teamwork.
Collaborators
Makers collaborate and give advice and guidance to their peers. Makers are often more interested in open sharing and exhibition, not competition. Makers comprise a community of creative and technical people that help one another do better. They are open, inclusive, encouraging and generous in spirit.
An Elementary Makerspace in Action!
Makerspace at Michael Wallace Elementary School
What goes into a Makerspace?
Most Makerspaces will have a blend of high tech and low tech items. We would envision our space to have the same.
Potential No Tech Items
- Craft supplies
- Cardboard
- Plastic materials
- Paper
- Collage materials
- Rainbow Loom
- Knitting and crochet supplies
- Legos
- K'Nex
Potential High Tech Items
- 3D printers
- littleBits
- MaKey MaKey
- Sphero Robotic Balls
- OSMO
- ipads-loaded with production apps
- Robotics Materials-WeDo
- Lego Mindstorm EV3
- Snap Circuits
- Dash and Dot Robots
- Cubelet Robots