SCS Elementary Makerspace

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MakerSpace News - February 2021

Even though you can’t come to MakerSpace at school we still have some activities that you can do at home. Try one or all of them and have fun creating!!

2020-2021 MakerSpace News

Due to the COVID pandemic our physical MakerSpaces are closed to students but....

You can still check out our stations to find ideas to do at home. We will also be offering some "Take It, Make It" ideas for our students to promote creativity and independent/innovative thinking.

We miss you!

2020 March MakerSpace News

Let’s get ready for St. Patrick’s Day in Makerspace

Even if you’re not Irish you can enjoy the green and shamrocks. Students will be challenged to create shamrocks out of pipe cleaners, beads, paper hearts, legos, and fabric. They will use shoe boxes and a variety of materials to make leprechaun traps - be sure to include something to lure them in as well as a trap to hold them safely. Ozobots and Spheros will race to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and our GREENscreen and stop motion animation stations are sure to capture many leprechauns in action.

2020 February MakerSpace News

Valentine’s Day is our focus in Makerspace

Students will be thinking with their heart in Makerspace this month. They may be creating simple heart crafts like buttons, bookmarks and necklaces or may take on the challenge to build a structure using hearts. Look for valentine inspired shapes made with legos or connects. Our heart is in Makerspace!

2020 January MakerSpace News

It’s snowing in Makerspace

Our students are learning about snow and the water cycle this month in makerspace. Students will be thinking snow at all our different stations. They will be making six sided snowflakes with various materials, racing ozobots through a snowflake patterns, using patterns to create beaded snowflakes, skating snowflake patterns as they learn the geometry of angles on Hour of Code with Anna and Elsa and much more. Students will also be thinking about the water cycle as they create 3 dimensional models of the cycle, build water related lego objects, and make stop-motion videos using yarn and felt that demonstrates their understanding of the process.

https://studio.code.org/s/frozen/stage/1/puzzle/1

September Makerspace News!

Apples, Apples, Apples

This month our Makerspaces are filled with apples. Our students are making apple pins, apple pencil toppers, apple collages and apples trees. Our Ozobots are crossing the states where Johnny Appleseed journeyed and following the map from "Apples to Oregon", Makey Makey's have become apple instruments and the Spheros are tracing apple patterns. We even have a few student sewing apple pillows to decorate their rooms.