Volume 1, Issue 7
Making Experiences That Inspire STEM Learning
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The Maker Movement Is Everywhere, Including in the Current Issue of CSL
Editor Dennis Schatz welcomes you to the seventh issue of Connected Science Learning, focused on STEM learning experiences through making. ...
By Dennis Schatz
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Educators from the Exploratorium Tinkering Studio and the Lighthouse Community Public Schools explored how out-of-school Making and Tinkering programs could support learning that flowed into the school day. ...
By Bronwyn Bevan, Jean J. Ryoo, Aaron Vanderwerff, Mike Petrich, and Karen Wilkinson
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Taking the Maker Experience From a Local Phenomenon to National Implementation
MAKESHOP at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is open for all to experience hands-on building and tinkering, and their initiative has spread nationwide. ...
By Chip Lindsey, Lisa Brahms, and Kathryn Koffler
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Accessible Making and Tinkering
Maker spaces and programs offer tremendous opportunities for all learners to explore new materials, expand their practical skills, think creatively, and exercise social-emotional skills such as problem-solving and collaboration. With this in mind, ...
By Charlotte Martin
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Do Children Make Good Citizen Scientists?
Participating in citizen science—where members of the public collect data for use by scientists—has become popular over the past 5 to 10 years, with teachers increasingly looking to incorporate citizen science into lessons (Gray, Nicosia, and J...
By Christine L. Goforth
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The Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative (GLSI) is a statewide network in Michigan that promotes rigorous place-based education experiences for K–12 students....
By Sarah Waters, Brandon Schroeder, and Tracy D'Augustino
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Fabricating Fidgets to Support Inclusive Maker Education
With the goal of supporting an inclusive maker education learning experience, a science museum, university, and middle school partnered to engage students diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in an authentic design challen...
By Alexandria K. Hansen, Eric R. Hansen, and Danielle B. Harlow
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Inspiring STEM Interest Using Foldscope
The Gaining Options to College Collaborative (GO College) is a successful college mentoring program within the Erie, Pennsylvania, school district. It provides free, on-site, extracurricular resources for local high schools. Faculty members from Ga...
By Anne Schmitz, Nicholas Conklin, Quyen Aoh, and Barbara Priestap
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Cocreating Transformative Change
Leveraging community to create a mobile, cultural makerspace that travels to schools, powwows, and community events throughout a Native American reservation in Montana....
By Holly Truitt, Ruth Swaney, William Swaney, Nick Wethington, and Nathalie Wolfram