STEAM and Makerspace Resources

Digital Resources for STEAM and School/Home Makerspaces

• Common Sense Media List of 20 Resource They Recommend

• Online Maker Ed PD for Teachers

• Teach Engineering Maker Challenges (many can be adapted to do from home with found materials)

• Stop Motion Video - Good Intro Video (great idea for projects)

  • Common Sense Media List of Stop Motion Animation Apps

  • My Kids Time Top 10 List of Handiest Apps for Stop Motion Animation

  • Stop Motion Animator for Google Chrome

  • Windows 10: Stop Motion Studio

  • Stop Motion Studio for iOS

• Tinkercad

  • Teach Page

  • Setting up a Tinkercad Classroom

  • Webinar PD Series

  • Learning Starters, Lessons, and Projects

• For students with LEGO bricks at home - 100 LEGO Building Project for Kids

• Maker Challenges with found materials at home

• Working with Cardboard

  • Attachment Techniques

  • Cardboard Fundamentals

• Make Cardboard Automata at home

  • Exploratorium Guide

  • Tinkering Studio Recorded Webinar on Automata (1 hour 45 min duration)

• Paper Cut, Fold, and Glue Projects

  • Popup Cards

  • Paper Structures Engineering Challenge

• Rob Ives web store collection of download, print, cut, and glue paper models. Several pages of free models.

• STEAM Projects using common household items

  • STEAM For Kids: Build a Paddle Boat

  • Make a Cardboard Box Labyrinth Game

  • Craft Stick Catapults

  • Paper Airplane Launcher

  • Slingshot Straw Rockets

  • Build a Straw Roller Coaster

  • Coding a Lego Maze (does not require a computer to “code”)

  • Make a Homemade Kaleidoscope

  • Make a Ping Pong Ball Launcher

  • Make a Homemade Spectroscope

  • Stick Raft Building STEM Project

  • Build a Hand Crank Winch

  • Design a Paper Plate Marble Maze

  • Let’s Build Boats - Engineering for Kids

  • Weather Vane and Compass Activity

  • Pyramid Catapult