Tales From CREATE

We have a new Lego Wall, now what? Tools can be engaging, making can inspire agency, but all of it needs to support education. I saw a ...

I implemented Mrs. Dickson's unintended inspiration. If you recall from "Mrs. Dickson's Protein Sprayer," I took a misund...

Here's a cool Python tool to play around with. Change the variables and press the play button. If you mess-up, click on the three horiz...

Video recorded from a live Google Hangout On Air for EdCamp Global on July 30, 2016. (46:00)

After a while you just run out of room for memorabilia. I know that I cannot keep every project. Some of them contain expensive components t...

Bear with me on this. I promise that I'll get to a very cool tinker-time tool. During the last school year, CREATE shared duties as ou...

It was just an afterschool 1st-grade tinker time session. But they came rushing in with a goal. It was a classmate's birthday and they w...

It started with a plan to make a "rattle." Rather than accept a plan to throw some hard stuff into a bottle and call it done. I...

It's interesting to see the students gain knowledge and confidence. They've got measuring down and now I've introduced laying ou...

When an afterschool tinker time regular asked me if we had a caulking gun, I didn't now how to answer. Nothing we had done in CREATE cal...

Leprechaun Trap If the kinder and 1st graders are building leprechaun traps, it must be St. Patrick's Day. But in CREATE, it'...

As much as we concentrate on tape, glue and batteries, none of these are necessary for a makerspace. 3-D printers are what we might show-off...

The mini-car I could see that he wasn't participating with his group. They were gathered around the final assembly of their card...

One of the activities we offer in CREATE is deconstructing decommissioned technology such as old computers, printers or other items that mig...

I've been trying to push my advanced 4th-grade 3-D design student (See  3-D Prodigy: A good problem ) to up his game. His current chall...

A while back, I mentioned a need for storage in CREATE  ( You Can't Be Too Rich, Too Thin or Have Enough Storage)  and the plan for the ...

The Maker ethos is largely about taking control of your own environment. In a workshop, sometimes that means not accepting the "right...

Coding brings to mind, for many people, engineers poring over screens of incomprehensible commands and algorithms. What they might not real...

3-D printers are slow and expensive to operate. But you already know that. So our printing policy is limited to in-class projects. Plus, Mou...

There's an old story that Sir Isaac Newton invented the doggie door. Newton had a big dog and a little dog. So, he built a door for each...