Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School

By Laura Fleming

Book Overview

Makerspaces: Your questions answered here

Get the nuts and bolts on imagining, planning, creating, and managing a cutting-edge Makerspace for your school community. Nationally recognized expert Laura Fleming provides all the answers in this breakthrough guide. From inception through implementation, you'll find invaluable guidance for creating a vibrant Makerspace on any budget. Practical strategies and anecdotal examples help you:

Create an action plan for your own personalized Makerspace Align activities to standards Showcase student creations

Use this must-have guide to painlessly build a robust, unique learning environment that puts learning back in the hands of your students

The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it's a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning.

"Laura Fleming does an exquisite job of creating a guide for all schools to tap into students' innate desire to create, tinker, invent, and make to learn. Leveraging her experience as a practitioner she provides a compelling, yet simple recipe for any school or educator to transform any space into a makerspace on a shoestring budget. It is time to bring the fun back into learning "
--Eric Sheninger, Corwin Author, Digital Leadership

"Fleming provides a concise overview of the Maker Movement as a revolution taking place in learning today. This book makes a case for the importance of creating a culture of innovation and offers practical tips and strategies for those interested in creating their own makerspaces."
--Greg Toppo, Education Reporter
USA Today

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1483382826
• ISBN13: 9781483382821
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"