Project Ideas

Animation

• Stop Animation - iStopMotion for iPad

• Animation - Scratch, Flash, Hype (html5), muro, etc.

• Web Apps - Animation for 12 and under or 13 and older

• BLoxels

• Hue Stop motion/ claymation/ lego animation

Art

• Art Bots

  • Messy Art Bots

• Tapigami

• See Drawing/Painting below

• See photography below

• See Animation above

• Constructed Signage

• Design Your Own Business Card

• Scrapbooking

• 3D Model Making (analog) - White Card Models

• Calligraphy

• Decorative writing/sign-making

Audio

• See Music below

• Learn to create and record sound fx

  • MouthSounds - Book & CD available for students

Augmented Reality

(and QR Codes - see below)

• Aris

• Aurasma Lite

Blogging

• Blogging

  • App Reviews

  • Game Reviews

  • Movie Reviews

  • Music Reviews

  • All of the above - Student Reviews

• Micro Blogging

  • Tumblr - http://atw2.tumblr.com

  • App, Song, Movie or Book reviews

  • BCS Sports highlights

• Photo Blogging

• Video Blogging

  • How about a weekly iOS tip show for students? - iFive

  • What about a weekly Minecraft tip show for noobs, advanced players, parents ...? - Minecraft Tutorials

Build A Computer

• How to Build a Computer from Scratch

• Raspberry Pi

  • Pi Store (for software)

  • Raspberry Pi Education Manual

Crafting

• Learn to make paper

• Learn to make piñatas

• Learn to make soap

• Learn origami

  • Try foldify

• Learn to make ...

• Start a business selling homemade ...

• Design an original halloween costume

• Duct Tape Crafting

• Weave, Knit, Crochet

• Sew, Stitch

• Clothing Maker or Fashion Design

• Paper Crafting and Paper Making

• Printmaking

• Tinkering Studio Jumpstart - Jewelry Making

• Resources

  • Craft:

Create your own "channel" to share a passion

• Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show!

Drawing/Painting

• Start a Comic Strip (Comic Life, Strip Designer, etc.)

• Explore affordances and constraints of art on the iPad (with and without a stylus)

• 3D

  • SketchUp, Shapesmith, 3DTin, Autodesk 123D

  • Shapeways, Ponoko, Scuplteo

• Paint, COREL Paint, etc.

• Wacom Tablets

• Visual Note Taking

  • The Basics of Visual Note-taking

  • RSA Animated

  • Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool

  • Sketchnotearmy.com & The Sketchnote Handbook

  • Videoscribe

  • Visual Recording on the iPad

  • In Plain English Videos

Electronics

• Squishy Circuits

• Snap circuits

Food

• Make your own ice cream

• recipe hacker

• chopped challenges

• Cookie Hacker

Game Design

• Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - Game Making

• Bloxels

• Minecraft

  • Improve a Minecraft wiki

  • Create a world to share with the world

  • Create a fly through to show off your world or take it a step further and edit a trailer to entice people to try out your world

  • Minecraft In School Wiki

  • Teach your teacher to better manage a Minecraft server

  • Setup and maintain your own Minecraft server

  • Playing Minecraft With a MaKey MaKey

  • Review mods

• Resources:

  • Gamestar Mechanic

  • Scratch or Snap!

    • Makey Makey Scratch Game Controller

  • Kodu

  • Alice3D or try out the Hour of Code tutorial

• Design a new card, board, or outside game

• Design a new cardboard arcade game

• Games Aiming to Change the World

Gaming

• Budget Hero

• Civilization

• GoodGame Empire

• iCivics (especially We The Jury) also check out Commons - Digital Town Square

• Kerbal Space Program

• Minecraft (3 week limit to explore, then you need to identify a challenge)

  • Minecraft-1001 Uses for Minecraft in Schools

  • Consider these challenges from Massively Minecraft, then come up with your own epic challenge

  • Create a HowToon

• Mission US (History)

• Past Present

• Portal and Portal 2

• SimCity

• Sound Shapes

• Stencyl

• WolfQuest

• Makey Makey Project

Gardening

• Hydroponic Gardens

• Square Foot Gardening

• Terrariums build your own

• Succulents and cactus gardens

• living wall projects

Help A Teacher (no mundane projects allowed, think Epic!)

• Create learning resources for classmates or younger students

• Curate resources related to curricular topics

Infographics

• http://ascd.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/infographics.html

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/64112955/Creating-Infographics-with-your-Students

Internet Safety

• Create a blog collecting and commenting on internet safety resources

• Create a PSA on a particular aspect of internet safety

• Start a campaign to educate and get classmates to stop cyberbullying

• Combine with Internet Searching & Producing - NetSmart - use Howard Rheingold's book as a starting point for a student created media campaign

LEGOS

• Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - LEGOs

• LEGO Instruct - Design and document your original creations

• Master Builder Academy

• Crickets

• WeDO

• NXT

• stop motion animation

Mini Maker Faire

Modern Language

• Create a Pronunciation Portfolio

• Create a set of flashcards and quizzes for a years worth of vocabulary and phrases or to review previous years' vocabulary

• Gather resources (podcasts, flashcards, lessons, etc.) for the language you are already learning

• Learn a new language

Music

• Audio Engineering

• Create a Portfolio for an Instrument You Know

• Learn a New Instrument

  • Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - Learn to Play Guitar

• Make an instrument

• Music Mixing - GarageBand

• Music Recording - GarageBand

• Music Reviews - Create a blog to review music

• Write a song or an entire album of songs

  • • Crestwood Elementary knows how to rock and rap

Online Courses

• Take an online course

• Create an online course (iTunes U)

Paper toy foldables

• Making paper foldable toys

• Designing your own paper foldable toys

• Experimenting with the cricut machine and glowforge to digitally cut the pieces.

Photography

• Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - Digital Photography & Editing

• Build, Learn Shoot - Bigshot Camera Kit

• Digital Photography

  • Take an online or DVD based course

  • 3D

• HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography

• Make your own iPhone or iPad microscope/camera - pdf & video

• Photo Editing

• Yearbook Photojournalism

Printing

• 3D Printer-Prusa MK3s

• Tons of printing ideas

  • Balloon powered car

  • 3d printed records

  • 3d printed green house

  • Moving At-At

  • Tinkercad tutorial for snowflakes

  • Smoothing your prints

• CNC Milling Machine

• Screen printing

• Vinyl printing

• heat press printing

• Glowforge projects

  • Glowforge a Ukulele

  • Glowforge vector help

• Prusa 3d MK3 iD printer projects

• Flexible filament 3d Printing

• How to use tinkercad and export to Slic3r basic must watch video

Podcasting

• Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - Audio Podcasting

• Create and maintain an iTunes podcast channel on a topic that interests you

  • iTunes, & GarageBand (or other recording/editing software)

Programming/Coding

• Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - Programming

  • Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - JavaScript

  • Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - Python

  • Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - Scratch

• Android App Development

  • MIT App Inventor

• Blocky - Google

• Cargo-Bot iPad App

• Codecademy

• iOS Development -

  • Beginner's Guide to iOS Development: Building your First App - Part 1 & Part 2

  • Stencyl

  • Codea ($9.99)

  • iPad and iPhone Application Development (iTunes U course)

• Java

  • Greenfoot

• Javascript

  • Code Avengers - HTML5/CSS or JavaScript (maybe someday)

  • Crunchzilla - Javascript

  • Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior - iPad app for learning JavaScript

• Programming Basics

• Lynda.com - Java, C#, and HTML5 (Thinkering has an account)

• Python

  • Python For Kids: A Playful Introduction To Programming

  • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (MIT - Python)

  • An Introduction to Python by Mark Clarkson or here

  • Project Euler - Python

  • Python for iOS

  • Pygame

• Ruby

  • KidsRuby

  • Ruby for Kids

  • Hackety Hack

• Scratch

  • BCS' ScratchEd Challenges

  • Super Scratch Programming Adventure

  • Scratch on iPad

    • Hopscotch HD (free iPad app) - Try these Hopscotch Challenges

    • Snap!(works on iPads)

• Tynker (application turned in)

• 10 Tools To Get Kids Excited About Programming

• Online University Classes

  • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (MIT - Python)

Research/Experimentation

• Dig into an iWonder question

  • BBC's iWonder

  • Wonderopolis

• ThinkQuest

Robotics

• Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - Robotics

• WeDo

• Crickets

• NXT

• Advanced LEGO Building Techniques

• Sam Labs (space and blockly)

Science

• 25 Fun Home Experiments

• Become a Connoisseur of Coasters

  • Coaster Crafter

  • Design your own K'NEX Coaster

• Kitchen Chemistry

• Paper Airplanes

• Rocket Science

  • Rocket Science 101

  • Straw-Rocket Aeronautics

Screencasting

• Create a howto wiki or wiki page on a technology of interest to you

• Tools:

  • Camtasia

  • QuickTime

  • Screencast-O-Matic

Videography

• Thinkering Studio Jumpstart - Digital Video

• Become a YouTube Guru (must be 13 or older)

• Commoncraft style explanations

  • Making of a In Plain English video

• Documentary

• Flipped Video for Core Curriculum Class

• Green screen video

• News Interview

• Paradoy Video

• Stop Motion

• Video Tricks

Web Design

• Mozilla Webmaker

• ThinkQuest

• Design a page, site, or blog for a school/organization support

• Wix

• Weebly

Writing

• Blog - see blogging section above

• Create a poetry portfolio

• Create a digital story

• Make an informational wiki on a favorite topic

• Write a novel, play, nonfiction book

  • Publish an iBook

• Join the Digital Writers Guild and create a writing portfolio

• Design an eBook (or iBook)

Other

• Arduino

  • LilyPad Arduino

  • Modkit

  • S4A (Scratch for Arduino)

• Build/Construct

  • Create with cardboard - Makedo Gallery

• Juggling

• Magic - https://diy.org/skills/magician

  • Card Tricks

  • Magic Tricks

  • Create a 3 trick magic show

• MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone

• Build a bike, repair a bike, hack a bike, perform a spring bike tuneup

• Start a company

• Other Tech Tools

  • Aviary

  • Glogster

  • Prezi

  • QR Codes

    • Create an informational tour of your school/classroom using the QR Treasure Hunt Generator

  • Web 2.0 Tools for under 13 students

"The word technology comes from the Greek. It is comprised of two parts: "techne," meaning an art or skill, and "logia" meaning the systematic study of an idea (Oxford English Dictionary, 1989). Thus the word technology originally meant the systematic study of an art or skill." Shoffner, Jones, and Harmon

Project Idea Sites to get inspired

25 Makerspace Projects For Kids

• Community Science Workshop

• Craft Stick Engineering

• Creativity Lab - Project Guides

• Design Squad (Click button to sort by: Art | Building | Machines | Music | Toys | Vehicles)

• DIY Projects & Experiments for Summer

• Exploratorium After School Activities (use arrows to see all 10+ activities)

• Exploratorium Tinkering Projects

• Science Fair Project Ideas (Science, Engineering, Robotics, Psychology, Etc.)

• Science Fair Project Ideas (not the same site as the one above)

• SparkTruck Tool Cards (Organized by Tool - Check out the Glue Gun Projects)

• Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show

• Make: Projects

  • Make: Projects - Kids (easier and cheaper?)

• DIY.Org Skills (click on an area of interest, then scroll down to challenges)

• Girl Scouts Get Making with Get Moving

• Project H Lesson Plans & Activities

• TeachEngineering Sprinkles

  • TeachEngineering.org (better for students with words to search for than just browsing)

• 5 Engineering Challenges with Clothespins, Binder Clips, and Craft Sticks

Jump Start Project Ideas:

• 3D Printing

• Animation & Stop Motion

• Chess

• Cricut "Printing"

• Digital Photography

• Digital Photography Editing

• Digital Video

• Electronics

• Game Design

• Jewelry Making

• Kerbal Space Program

• LEGO

• Magnetism

• Minecraft

• Music

  • Learn To Play Guitar

  • Music Appreciation, Ear Training, and Theory

  • Piano

  • Ukulele

• Origami

• Papertoy foldables

• Podcasting

  • Audio Podcasting

  • Video Podcasting

  • Screen Recording Podcasting

• Presenting

• Programming

  • JavaScript

  • Python

  • Scratch

• Robotics

• Sewing

• Screencasting 101