Tales From CREATE

CREATE(ing) time If you ask any teacher what one thing that they need more of (besides money) they will tell you that they need more time...

Sacrificial workbench tops Wear and tear is one of the things built into our workbenches . Students will cut without mats, scraping-up hot...

We rely a great deal on the kindness of strangers. Sort-of strangers, actually. Much of our material is donated by our families or by busine...

Last Spring, our campus became a construction site. Portable classrooms were trucked in, regular classrooms were emptied, concrete broken up...

More than a year after our Donors Choose campaign, we finally inaugurated our Lego wall. Here's the explainer video:

I just thought I'd post a list of the things that we purchase to keep CREATE moving. These are non-"junk" consumables. Typi...

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...