Full Description
Makerspaces is a first-to-market resource for early childhood professionals that focuses on how to cultivate the maker mindset in the youngest learners, how to engage young children in maker-centered learning, design and introduce makerspaces, and how to select/use open-ended tools and materials.
Field tested in real classrooms, home settings, libraries, and museums, the authors have practical suggestions, student samples, implementers' suggestions, photographs, anchor charts, and many other forms of documentation. Each chapter focuses on a different type of makerspace, details ways to successfully set up that makerspaces, offers provocation ideas for how to extend learning, and shows how educators can document evidence of how a child can develop a stronger growth mind-set by interacting with the makerspace. Full-color demonstrative photos give readers additional visual guidance.
Contents
Introduction: What Is a Makerspace?
Chapter 1: Setting Up and Designing for Your Makerspaces
Chapter 2: Construction Makerspaces
Chapter 3: Performance Makerspaces
Chapter 4: Collage Makerspaces
Chapter 5: Sculpture Makerspaces
Chapter 6: Small World Makerspaces
Chapter 7: Art Makerspaces
Chapter 8: Sewing Makerspaces
Appendixes Letter to parents to collect materials and loose parts
Planning form for designing a makerspace
Documentation forms
Recommended resources
References
