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What is MakeDo?
What is MakeDo?
MakeDo is an open-ended cardboard construction toolkit that encourages critical thinking, fostering student’s natural inclinations of learning by doing.
The awesomeness of MakeDo is that children develop a wide range of 21st Century Learning Skills by: doing, creating, experimenting, failing, redesigning, improving and consolidating their new understandings through reflection.
The creations students make then open the door to new wonderings and inventive solution finding in an ongoing and evolving process.
Why use MakeDo in your Classroom?
Why use MakeDo in your Classroom?
MakeDo ties right into the new Science Curriculum Strand A! It provides educators an easy avenue into Project Based Learning as well.
A1.3 use the engineering design process and associated skills to design, build, and test devices, models, structures or systems
A1.4 follow established health and safety procedures during science and technology investigations, including wearing appropriate PPE and safely using tools, instruments and materials
A3.1 describe practical applications of science and technology concepts in their home and community, and how these applications address real-world problems
A3.2 investigate how science and technology used with other subject areas to address real-world problems
How do I get started with MakeDo?
How do I get started with MakeDo?
Every Elementary school in the DDSB received two full class MakeDo Invent Kits in the Fall of 2022 from Experiential Learning Funding.
A good place to start is to ask your Teacher Librarian about the kits!
Below is an introduction guide we made for teachers to MakeDo and the initial projects we launched in Fall 2022.
MakeDo Teacher Makerspace Hub
MakeDo Teacher Makerspace Hub
The MakeDo Hub is a teacher generated resource that is curated by MakeDo.
You can find lots of interesting activities here and is a great place to get started with MakeDo.
Link to MakeDo Hub: https://know.make.do/
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