Topic: Activity Design

  • From the Creators of Learning in the Making: Live!

    From the Creators of Learning in the Making: Live!

    In this essay, Dora Medrano Ramos and Linda Le share why they created Learning in the Making, an online video series that serves as a powerful response to the persistent […]

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    Maker Ed
  • Learning in the Making: Stop Motion Animation

    Learning in the Making: Stop Motion Animation

    Ever wonder how your favorite cartoon characters come to life? It is done through the process of animation. Stop motion is one style of animation, and it’s really simple! This […]

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    Maker Ed
  • The Maker Educator Assessment Rubric

    The Maker Educator Assessment Rubric

    This rubric is designed for educators to identify where they are within stages of development along four categories of pedagogy: Goals, Planning Activities & Lessons, Planning Learning Progressions, Facilitation, and […]

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    Maker Ed
  • MakerEd’s Youth Makerspace Playbook

    MakerEd’s Youth Makerspace Playbook

    This comprehensive handbook for educators in any setting offers practical suggestions on finding spaces to make, outfitting spaces with tools and materials, exploring the possible educational approaches within spaces, and […]

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    Maker Ed
  • Makerspace @ the Tech cookbook

    Makerspace @ the Tech cookbook

    This comprehensive handbook documents maker-centered programming and activities for a drop-in museum context and includes learning goals, materials lists, set-up, facilitation tips, and more!

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    The Tech Museum of Innovation,Maker Ed
  • Girl Scouts: Get making with get moving!

    Girl Scouts: Get making with get moving!

    In this booklet, discover what the Maker Movement is and how it can bring exciting hands-on activities related to energy into the Girl Scouts Get Moving! Journey.

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    Girl Scouts,Maker Ed
  • Lighthouse Creativity Lab Project Guides

    Lighthouse Creativity Lab Project Guides

    This collection of 10 project guides offers vibrant snapshots of maker-centered learning in a formal K-12 school setting with cross-curricular, hands-on activity ideas.

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    Lighthouse Creativity Lab
  • 12 Questions to Ask When Designing Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum

    In this article, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad covers five pursuits of culturally and historically responsive teaching: identity, skills, intellectualism, criticality, and joy.

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    Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE)
  • How do we present gender, sex, and sexuality as part of inclusive and accurate science teaching?

    How do we present gender, sex, and sexuality as part of inclusive and accurate science teaching?

    This “practice brief” support educators to create a more full sense of belonging for gender-diverse students in science education.

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    STEM Teaching Tools
  • Strawberries and Labor

    Strawberries and Labor

    In this lesson, students examine an infographic on strawberries and labor that shows the connections between strawberry growing, production, and immigration policies.

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    The Edible Schoolyard Project