Making with Your Hands

Low Tech makerspace

For some, makerspace can be intimidating due to feeling like you need certain things, but by bringing it back to the basics, you can still set up a thriving makerspace with minimal investment by simply repurposing and recycling items.

Getting started

The Maker Day Toolkit is a resource from UBC that provides a background and introduction to Maker and bringing it into schools.

makerday-2-toolkit.pdf

What do you need?

There are not any "mandatory" supplies that you need for students to create, below are some ideas that could be beneficial to get started:

Cardboard
Scissors
Glue
Newspaper
Recyclable products such as milk/ juice containers
Duct/ scotch tape
Toilet paper/ paper towel rolls
Misc. craft supplies

More examples here

Caine's arcade

Caine's Arcade is an excellent example that supplies shouldn't be a limitation to makerspace. This 9-year-old boy created an arcade out of recycled cardboard and repurposed supplies.

Sample Projects

Accessible through the BC curriculum these projects combine makerspace, design thinking as well as sustainability to foster innovation and problem solving.

Rebuilding a Damaged Earth.pdf

Rebuilding a Damaged Earth

Lower Middle School

This challenge is a cross-curricular project that combines big ideas from the ADST and Science curriculum. Utilizing First People's Principles students try to rebuild a damaged Earth in a sustainable way.

Designing a Watering System for a School Garden.pdf

Watering System for School Garden

Upper Middle School

This project takes a real-world problem of designing a watering system and challenges students to create a sustainable solution in order to have minor maintenance or a power source.

Assessment

- At the end of the project teachers and students should fill out the Single Point Rubric for ADST
- Utilizing the check-in provides students with feedback on what they have done well, and what can be improved. Students will take this feedback and enhance their projects.

Single Point Rubric - ADST Curriculum

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