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What is this project?
What is this project?
The new season of monthly build challenges for your learning space, makerspace, school, workshop, classroom is finally here! I am so excited to share this one with everyone.
We are in a place and time that needs more compassion, gratitude, and small gestures of kindness.
When we think about compassion making we cannot save the world overnight, but we have the power to help someone feel appreciate and good about themselves.
Everything you need is below. If you need anything else, then please reach out. Throughout the month I will share other tutorials and tips and as others share we will have those examples as well.
As we always talk about in my workshops, be sure to document the journey and share! We have community of learners and makers and the only way we all get better is through sharing, supporting, and interacting with one another.
Please be sure to share your work, your journey, questions, ideas, and more with me and the group. This will allow this project to improve and empower one another through sharing.
Project Launch Video
Project Launch Video
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
- Students will understand the the importance of being a positive ripple in the universe by developing their understanding of the word gratitude
- Students will demonstrate how to work with others to create art designs to lift the spirits of someone who has helped them.
- Students will creatively express their ideas through a hands on project.
Project Ideas
Project Ideas
- Gratitude
- Compassion Making
- Expressing emotions through art
- Paper circuits
- Zentangle
Skill & Mindset Development
Skill & Mindset Development
- Creating community in your makerspace
- Introducing new making concepts if you choose to include
- What is gratitude?
- How can we express being thankful?
- Working with students to learn how to work together
Think about this before you begin!
Think about this before you begin!
- This is up to the individual educator for this project. The participants are the students involved in this project so you must provide them with the following:
- Materials they are able to use for building and making
- Tools they are allowed to use
- Handout/Slide/Poster of the constraints of the sign so they know what the constraints are for the project
- Time and space to think, explore, and make
- Consider the age of your students and what tools you want to provide. If this is the first time students have accessed your space you might want to use simple tools and materials. You could organize the space in a way that as they create and make they are doing a sort of scavenger hunt to discover what is all available.
- If you want to introduce a specific concept i.e. Arduino and LED you could make these items a required element of the build.
- Consider time, materials, and cost before you launch. You want to make sure everyone can complete the project.
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