Maker Education

How are educators harnessing the energy of the maker movement to inspire student exploration across multiple subjects? Discover resources and share advice.

How Learning Happens
Learning Problem Solving and Growth Mindset in a Makerspace
Makerspaces build students’ cognitive abilities while fostering independence, perseverance, and self-regulation.
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The Science Classroom Makerspace
In freshman biology, lab work and design thinking come together through maker education.
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Making Makerspaces Work for All Students
Makerspaces can energize students as problem solvers, and they should be accessible to students with physical disabilities.
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Assessing Learning in Maker Education
A look at how maker education is assessed—and how assessment is evolving to measure more than just content.
Design Thinking
Designed for Engagement
A school district uses monthly missions in its design studios to increase student and teacher engagement and foster self-directed learning.
Integrated Studies
Using Science to Bring Literature to Life
Combining science and literature can help students engage more deeply with both subjects.
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Acknowledging Ungraded Skills
An argument for using badges in makerspaces to recognize the skills students gain outside the traditional curriculum.
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A Makerspace Built by Elementary Students
Third graders designed a makerspace for their school. Then they got their budget approved and built it.
Learning Environments
Photos: Classrooms That Really Move
These traveling art studios, science labs, and greenhouses are reducing barriers to access by meeting students where they are.
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Makers Of The World: Engaging Kids Through Building and Design
Emily Pilloton, Founder of Studio H, a design/build class at REALM Charter School and Girls Garage both in Berkeley, California, describes how she “knew there were things about architecture and design that could have a deep impact in the classroom.”