Making in the Classroom.
After a very successful 'Connection Day' involving makerspace activities I was delighted when our wonderful Prep teacher, who also runs Young Masterminds told me I...
Session at EduTECH
Megan and I were honoured to be invited to run a breakout session at EduTECH 2015....wow! As our focus has been on setting up...
Geography in the Makerspace Zone
It was now time for us to promote our space to the rest of the school and to get the teachers behind what we were doing....
Guided ‘Making’
After Megan and I had tested the idea of a MakerSpace Zone and found the girls were interested and engaged in the ideas we...
Fun with Marble Runs!
Sharing beautiful stories with our girls is the highlight of my school day. After reading Different Like Coco by Elizabeth Matthews and discussing many of...
Learning by Making : Books = Ideas
We encourage our girls to use books for ideas to create in our MakerSpace zone. We display signs like the ones below and display book...
Inviting the girls to make…
During the next term in Library skills the girls were learning how to find topics in the non-fiction area of the library so I...
More Favourite Maker activities
After the success of making cards with electrical circuits I decided to guide the girls in creating 'bogles' using dough. I was fortunate to obtain the...
Researching ideas
I spent a lot of time reading and searching the types of activities being carried out in school libraries. I saw such value in...