![]() Lifelong kindergarten: Cultivating creativity through projects, passion, peers, and play, by Mitchel Resnick Even without expensive hardware, the classroom can become a makerspace where students and teachers learn together through direct experience with an assortment of high and low-tech materials. This book helps educators bring the opportunities of the maker movement to every classroom. Children are natural tinkerers, and the maker movement overlaps with both their natural inclinations and the power of learning by doing. ![]() Invent to learn: Making, tinkering, and engineering in the classroom, by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager Projects range from paper and sewing circuits to e-textiles, and from musical instruments to 3-D printing. This interactive, easy-to-follow guide describes classroom-tested, low-cost do-it-yourself and makerspace projects which foster creativity and inspire imagination. The big book of makerspace projects: Inspiring makers to experiment, create and learn, by Colleen Graves and Aaron Graves The author offers dozens of makerspace examples for each grade level by content area, including ones for language arts, math, science, engineering, arts, social studies, and technology. This guide shows librarians and teachers the specific steps to successfully starting an elementary school library makerspace without blowing the budget. The elementary school library makerspace: A start-up guide, by Marge Cox Readers will understand literacy learning through making and the creative approaches embedded in early literacy classroom practices. Through an in-depth case study of a “maker” school’s innovative design, the author shows demonstrates that children’s inspiration, curiosity, and creativity is a direct result of the school environment. This book demonstrates what innovative education looks like from a literacy perspective. The literacy of play and innovation: Children as makers, by Christiane Wood Listed below are selected teacher resources, picture books, fiction, and non-fiction related to making and makerspaces.
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