Math, Coding, and Making
Makerspaces & 3D Printing
Makerspaces & 3D Printing
Books about Making, Makerspaces and Kids as Inventors
Books about Making, Makerspaces and Kids as Inventors
- What Do You Do with an Idea? Kobi Yamada. Illustrated by Mae Besom. Compendium, 2014
- See also What Do You Do with a Problem?
- Rosie Revere, Engineer. Andrea Beaty. Illustrated by David Roberts. Henry N. Adrams, 2013
- See also Ada Twist, Scientist & Iggy Peck, Architect
- Three Little Pigs. David Wiesner. Clarion Books, 2001.
- Imaginative retelling of what happens to the pigs and the houses they constructed
- Smithsonian Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects: Build, Invent, Create, Discover. Jack Challoner. DK Children, 2015
- Paper Inventions: Machines That Move, Drawings That Light Up, and Wearables and Structures You Can Cut, Fold, and Roll. Kathy Ceceri, Maker Media, 2015
- The Big Book of Makerspace Projects: Inspiring Makers to Experiment, Create and Make. Colleen Graves, McGraw-Hill, 2016
- Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came To Be. Charlotte Foltz Jones. Illustrated by John O'Brien. Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1994
- The Invent to Learn Guide to More Fun. Josh Burker and Sylvia Libow Martinez, Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, 2018.
- The Kickstart Guide to Making GREAT Makerspaces. Laura Fleming, Corwin Teaching Essentials, 2017.
3D model of a home security system designed by UMass Amherst student, Alyssa Federico: "I made a 3D model using TinkerCAD. Marie Van Brittan Brown is a black woman who was the brains behind the first home security system. She came up with the idea because the crime rate in her neighborhood was growing."
Naomi Wu demonstrating how to configure a Raspberry Pi 2 by Naomi Wu CC BY-SA 4.0
Inventors
Inventors
Books & Digital Resources about Kids as Inventors
Books & Digital Resources about Kids as Inventors
- Engineering with Paper Airplanes, Origami and Good Junk. Learn about an after-school engineering school for first to sixth graders
- Meet the 11 Year-old Girl Who Invented Water-Testing Device
- She named her device Tethys, Greek Goddess of clean water
- Meet the 11 Year-old Who Invented a Healthy Lollipop
- She created Zollipops, the Clean Teeth, Anti-Cavity Lollipop
- 10 Great Inventions Dreamt Up By Children
- Frank Epperson started selling Popsicles in 1922, an item he first created in 1905 when he was 11 years-old
- 60 million popsicles were sold in the United States in 1928
- Crazy Kids' Inventions Turned into Real Products
- Picture Books for Little Inventors and Engineers:
- Can Toys Create Future Engineers? The New Yorker (December 12, 2013)
- Benjamin Banneker
- Elijah McCoy
- George Washington Carver
- Granville T. Woods
- Sarah Elizabeth Goode
Product Development
Product Development
Learn how mistakes, growth mindsets, or creative change of purpose inspired product development:
Digital Resources
Digital Resources
- Writing IS Making
- National Week of Making (June 21, 27, 2019)
- Why Makerspaces Give Kids Space to Fail and Why That's a Good Thing
- Makerspace Resources for K-12 Educators, The Edgerton Center, MIT
- Mix and Match Makerspace Challenges
- The STEAM-Powered Elementary School: Montour Opens World's First Lego-Themed Brick Makerspace
3D Printing & Doodling
3D Printing & Doodling
- 3D Printing 4 Teaching & Learning
- There (Very) Young Inventors Using 3D Printing to Change the World. Popular Science (April 4, 2017)
- Cool 3D Printed Toys: 11 Ideas for Children of All Ages. ALL3DP (July 1, 2017)
- This Girl Designed Her Own Superhero Prosthetic Arm, and It Shoots Sparkles. Fast Company (March 28, 2016)
- 15 Best 3D Pens for Kids & Artists/2017. AvatarGeneration
- 3D Doodler Smart Video
- President Obama Presidential Portrait in 3D
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