Topic: Learning

  • Resources for Agitators

    Resources for Agitators

    A list of resources to learn about taking an abolitionist approach to teaching and learning.

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    Abolitionist Teaching Network
  • Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools

    Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools

    This panel recording asks: “What would freedom look like in our schools? How can abolitionist educators make the most of this moment to fight for humane, liberatory, anti-racist schooling for […]

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    Haymarket Books
  • Incorporating Maker-Centered Learning at Van Ness

    Incorporating Maker-Centered Learning at Van Ness

    In this video, you will learn how Maker-centered learning is integrated throughout students’ work at Van Ness Elementary School.

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    Van Ness Elementary School
  • Ancestral Tech and Making

    Ancestral Tech and Making

    How do we recognize, celebrate, and sustain indigenous and ancestral ways of making? Crystal Barajas Barr, an Art and STE(A)M Teacher at Urban Promise Academy Middle School in Oakland, shares […]

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    Crystal Barajas Barr, Agency by Design Oakland
  • Light Play

    Light Play

    This project from the Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio, which supports low-barrier, high ceiling exploration of light and shadow, is adaptable to any learning environment.

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    Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium
  • Circuit Boards

    Circuit Boards

    This project from the Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio, which supports low-barrier, high ceiling exploration of circuits and electricity, is adaptable to any learning environment.

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    Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium
  • How to incubate creativity in schools through making and discovery

    How to incubate creativity in schools through making and discovery

    Get a glimpse of how one elementary and middle school integrates making into its culture and curriculum in this article giving voice to students and teachers.

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    KQED
  • The Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio Projects

    The Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio Projects

    This online database of project ideas and instructional guides from the Tinkering Studio, part of the interactive Exploratorium museum, can provide inspiration for developing your own activities in your kitchen, […]

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    The Exploratorium
  • How Libraries can turn stories into Maker Projects

    How Libraries can turn stories into Maker Projects

    In this article, read about how maker program coordinator, Nora Peters, saw an opportunity to better connect the activities of the maker space with the library’s mission to promote literacy […]

    By:
    MindShift
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Curriculum

    Explore this inquiry-based curriculum from the Monterey Bay Aquarium that will engage your students with hands-on learning and supports Next Generation Science Standards through classroom or field experiences

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    Monterrey Bay