Description
Book SynopsisMakerspaces is a first-to-market resource for early childhood professionals that focuses on how to cultivate the maker mindset in the youngest learners, how to engage young children in maker-centered learning, design and introduce makerspaces, and how to select/use open-ended tools and materials.
Field tested in real classrooms, home settings, libraries, and museums, the authors have practical suggestions, student samples, implementers’ suggestions, photographs, anchor charts, and many other forms of documentation. Each chapter focuses on a different type of makerspace, details ways to successfully set up that makerspaces, offers provocation ideas for how to extend learning, and shows how educators can document evidence of how a child can develop a stronger growth mind-set by interacting with the makerspace. Full-color demonstrative photos give readers additional visual guidance.
Trade Review“Makerspaces makes a wonderful contribution to education by bringing the playful and creative mindset of the maker-movement to early years settings. The book champions a much-needed approach to children’s education that is based around collaboration, self-expression and learning through making. Bringing together hands-on planning tools with evidence-based learning theories, Makerspaces is a must-have resource for preschool and kindergarten teachers.” —Dr. Louisa Penfold, founder of Art Play Children Learning and Post-Doctoral Fellow in Early Childhood Education at Harvard University
Table of Contents
- Introduction: What Is a Makerspace?
- Chapter 1: Setting Up and Designing for Your Makerspaces
- Chapter 2: Construction Makerspaces
- Chapter 3: Performance Makerspaces
- Chapter 4: Collage Makerspaces
- Chapter 5: Sculpture Makerspaces
- Chapter 6: Small World Makerspaces
- Chapter 7: Art Makerspaces
- Chapter 8: Sewing Makerspaces
- Appendixes Letter to parents to collect materials and loose parts
- Planning form for designing a makerspace
- Documentation forms
- Recommended resources
- References
