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Fuchs Péter's avatar

We have been working for 10 years with school makerspaces, and so far successfully turning the teachers attention to this new learning environment.

Our idea was the same - that without expertise the teachers will will not able to kickstart their activities in makerspaces, so we started to give them half year courses to fire up their maker skills.

You can check out our four activities here: www.makersredbox.com. Right new we are thinking on how to access the US teachers, so any suggestions and help are appriciated. Thanks

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Maura Redmond's avatar

Edible Schoolyard provides training and curricula that aligns with NGSS. I was able, as a parent, to download documentation for a demonstration I did when we made vinaigrette after picking leaves of lettuce in the garden. The teacher could then include in her daily write up of how it was educational because it had the NGSS information. Formalizing maker activities in one hub where the curricular documentation already provided could go a long way towards allowing teachers to include it in their day if they can "prove" it is educational. PA is starting new standards this year (STEELS), so I realize it's a moving target and will need to be updated as these sort of things happen.

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