I’m compiling all my maker education lessons and projects on this page as a resource for others on their maker journey!
Makey Makey Lessons
New! Download the printable Makey Makey Educator’s Guide (some lessons are here and all of them are also in Labz) Don’t forget to read the blog post about MakeyMakey Challenge that started it all! 🙂 Original lesson plans are still available here.
Invention Literacy
- Post One – Intro and Getting Started
- Post Two – Researching and Making
- Post Three – Sharing and Reflecting
Crowdsourced sites for inventing
- Instructables
- Tinkering Studio
- Make It at Your Library
- Youtube
- SparkFun (For Electronics)
- Sparkfun Inventor Space
- Makey Makey Labz
- littleBits
- Cardboard History: Caine’s Arcade
Sewing Circuits
- Introduction to Sewing Circuits on SparkFun’s Inventor Space
- Chapter 7 in our BigMakerBook: Simple LED bracelets, Wearable art cuff, and Heavy Metal Stuffie with Arduino
- Valuing Process over Product in The Saga of George
- Sewing with Chibitronics Stickers
Paper Circuit Tutorials (By Me)
- Chapter 4 of our BigMakerBook (LED origami, Simple, Parallel, and Branched Circuits, Pop-Up Circuitry for Pop-Up Books.)
- Simple Circuit and DIY Switch
- Tinkering with Chibitronics Effect Stickers
- Light Up Poetry with We Love Code Board by Chibitronics
- Paper Circuits for Mom
Paper Circuit Tutorials
(Not written by me)
- From Exploratorium Tinkering Studio
- Chibitronics Educator Resources
- Hack your Notebook Day
- “Illuminate Your Thinking” Notebook PDF
- 21st Century Notebooking Page
- Hack Your Notebook Day Resources
- Hack Your Notebook Day Teaching Kit on Mozilla by Jen Dick, Jie Qi, David Cole, and Chad Sansing
littleBits Lessons
(More in our #Bigmakerbook)
- littleBits Artbot Challenge Tackk
- Librarian’s Guide to littleBits (You’ll have to give your email to download)
- littleBits Challenges from Aaron Graves
- Hacking Arduino Sketches with Arduinobit
Coding/Programming
- Programming Robots with Tickle (Projects in our #bigmakerbook)
- Programming and Coding Ideas with Scratch (Projects in our #bigmakerbook)
- Tinkering with Arduino Code
- Chapter 5 (Scratch, Ardublock) and Chapter 9 (Programming Sphero, Dash &Dot, Hummingbird Robotics) in our BigMakerBook
Arduino
- Hacking Arduino Sketches with Arduinobit
- littleBits Arduino and Ardublock in our BigMakerBook
- Getting Started with Arduino
- Tinkering with Arduino Code and Scribblebots
- Plum Geek Robot Review
- Chibitronics Arduino Board
3D Printing Design
Lesson Ideas
- Chapter 11 of BigMakerBook (Designing for Makey Makey, Designing for littleBits, DIY Phonograph Top, and Sphero Paddles.)
- Science- Design and print plate tectonics and use our Arduino or littleBits to program the different wave forms from the Seismograph readings of particular earthquakes.
- Business- Design a product for a business class, market it, and sell it at school “market”
- Science- Human Body Redesign- How could we design a better functioning human body? Design a movable/functional body part
- History – Design a functional hand cart or other product that would aide pioneers utilizing things only available from that time period
- History/Science- Design a functioning catapult
Design Challenges for 3D Printing
- Sphero Chariot Design Challenge
- Jewelry Design Challenge
- Game Figurines for Makey Makey Challenge Game Controller (Or even designing the game controller itself and creating it with the 3D printer.)
Sphero Lessons
(More in our #Bigmakerbook)
- Read about our Sphero Obstacle Course
- Thinglink on Sphero Obstacle Course
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