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Maker Mondays has been created for children and young people of all ages across Stirling
About Maker Mondays?
About Maker Mondays?
Through these challenges you will learn about and develop skills essential in the 21st century world of learning, work and life, including empathy, curiosity, creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking.
Maker Mondays encourages these skills by introducing a creative thinking process to help teachers and pupils solve challenges with confidence together. Find out more below.
How does Maker Mondays work?
How does Maker Mondays work?
This is a process that designers, engineers, inventors, innovators, architects and entrepreneurs use, but it is brilliant to use in school for problem solving and creating new idea. It helps you to think creatively and to collaborate to solve a problem and can be used by everyone....well, maybe not your pet hamster.
The workbook will help you to reflect on the challenge, gather information (such as why is it a problem, who is it is problem for, what might they need to help), generating possible solutions, refine your ideas and create prototypes.
With climate justice and environmental protection being key focuses just now many of the challenges will take this focus but we promise there will be some fun challenges too.
You then have the opportunity to upload your solution to the Maker Mondays Gallery and share your solution with schools across Stirling, and beyond.
Visit the Maker Mondays website to find out more and to take part in this terms challenge.
The Creative Thinking Process
The Creative Thinking Process
If you would like to find out more about Design Thinking in Education there are a lot of amazing resources. Here are links to just some of them. Happy exploring.
Getting started with Design Thinking - John Spencer
Design Thinking for Educators - IDEO
The Creative Thinking Process
The Creative Thinking Process
If you would like to find out more about Design Thinking in Education there are a lot of amazing resources. Here are links to just some of them. Happy exploring.
Getting started with Design Thinking - John Spencer
Design Thinking for Educators - IDEO
Further Information
Further Information
If you need any further information about Maker Mondays, would like to be added to our Maker Mondays emailing list to be kept up to date with new challenges, or would like advise or support for your school to take part in a Maker Mondays challenge please get in touch creativelearning@stirling.gov.uk
Curriculum Development
Curriculum Development
Design Thinking is also a useful tool for collaborative curriculum development and innovation or trying to solve some of the day to day challenges in school. If you would like to explore how to do this please get in touch creativelearning@stirling.gov.uk
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