Cardboard
“The greatest toy alive!”
3 Goals
How do we create hands on learning on a very tiny budget?
How do we create hands on learning that applies to any type of learner and school condition?
How do we integrate the Old School with the New School to create One School?
Crazy Cardboard Construction
This session will provide an entry point into learning various ways to use and manipulate cardboard to do basic building and construction. During this session we will explore at least 10 different ways to connect, strengthen, and support cardboard building to take prototyping to a new level. These techniques will help ensure you don’t just have massive duct tape bundles of cardboard in your space.
Crazy Cardboard Automata
This session will build upon the basic building techniques and begin to understand automata and how it works.
What is cardboard automata? Cardboard automata are crank-operated mechanical devices that tell miniature stories with movement and narrative, these simple but engaging contraptions are often a vehicle for personal expression and humor.
Through this section we will be exploring how the work, how to make a variety of different mechanisms, and learning applications.
Cranks, cam, followers, linkages…..
These are some terms that you soon understand through exploration. Let’s dive into some inquiry and hands on learning.
Crazy Cardboard Physical Computing
This session is taking our cardboard knowledge to the next level by adding microcontrollers to the mix. We will be exploring how microcontrollers such as Hummingbird Robotic Kits, Micro:bits, Circuit Playground, and more can be infused with cardboard to make our learning come alive.
In this session we will learn how to create some machines and mechanisms using the Hummingbird Robotics Kits. If you have these robot kits, then please bring with you so you can take your creations back to your space. A few will be provided for those that do not have one and would like to learn more.
Resources
- Are lesson plans and a learning framework necessary for the Makerspace? You betcha!
- Cardboard Creations from Make Yourself Into A Maker PD