Topic: Design
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Learning in the Making: Sewing
Practice sewing skills by making a stuffed animal while following along with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Shapes in Nature
Using geometric shapes that occur in nature as inspiration, design and build a sound structure for your stuffed animal with paper dowels by following along with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Design
Learn about and try out the design process by designing your own shoe with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Stamps & Patterns
Learn to make stamps in order to create and explore patterns with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Autumn Festival Lanterns
Lanterns are used in cultural celebrations across the globe! Learn how to create autumn festival lanterns with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Self-Love Headgear
Make headgear to express who you are and your love for yourself with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Paper Box Motion Story
The Paper Box Motion Story is like a tiny, manual movie theatre! It can be used to summarize information, share learned facts, and even create and tell fictional stories. Follow along with this activity video and project guide to make your own as you read and reflect on Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The True…
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Learning in the Making: Revolutionary Screenprinting
Learn about the revolutionary applications of screenprinting in the Black Panther Party and try out screenprinting yourself with this activity video and project guide.
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Tla’amin Basket Weaving: Coding and Indigenous Teaching
This teacher blog post details a rich hands-on activity that integrates coding and indigenous basket weaving, replete with links to additional resources and contexts.
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Middle school maker journey
In this article, middle school teacher Kevin Jarrett reviews the manifesto, mantra, and materials necessary to make a middle school maker program from scratch.