Encourage student creativity, spatial awareness, and hand-eye coordination by adding free-building to your classroom or STEM program. Allowing students to get hands-on with building also helps promote STEM careers, like engineering. Here are a few of our favorite building and engineering products your [...]
Mobile makerspaces, such as the Maker Bus or the Mobile STEM Scout Lab, have become increasingly popular over the past couple of years. These unique spaces allow students to [...]
I am starting at a new school this year. That means I have a whole new group of teachers to convince that I can help them in their classrooms. [...]
There’s no way to sugarcoat it – last school year was hard. It was hard on students, hard on parents, and hard on you. Nevertheless, here you are, a [...]
I love everything about makerspaces. What’s not to love about all the problem-solving skills, “Ah ha!” moments, displays of teamwork, and real-world applications of STEM ideas in one space? [...]
I am always looking for fun activities for students that involve STEAM principles and encourage students to come into the library. Last school year, I attended the Texas Librarian [...]
Boxes are one of those things that you always have a ton of, especially if you are addicted to online shopping like I am. I always recycle my boxes, [...]
A makerspace is any venue that promotes creativity, design-thinking, and tinkering. In a school, a makerspace can live on a cart, in a closet, in the corner of a [...]
There’s a lot of debate about STEM verses STEAM. In conversations I’ve had with teachers, they wonder which is more relevant and how they should approach the arts portion. [...]
Most of last year I raised money through grant writing and hosting movie nights and book fairs with one main goal in mind: to buy a 3D printer for [...]
