Sandi H. Dennis, Ed.S. : Library Media and Instructional Technology Specialist
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Bringing Literacy to Life through Making
​Shannon Miller

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A lot of projects happen in library
makerspace Mondays
tie in maker space to books
future ready librarian wheel- literacy in center
booklist- what do you look for in a book you could use in a makerspace activity?

​books and ideas for 3D printing
Leo the maker prince, Thingiverse has characters,
peter & Pablo the printer
velma gratch and the way cool butterfly
​3D print butterflies after uploading student art to website
object viewer App ( use with merge cube)

books And ideas for animals and insects
a bear is a bear (recycled things) hibernation
those darn squirrels- coding bee bots and spheres from the book
Mechanimals - upcycling, recycling, welding

art drawing painting
art & max - website that goes with it
The Dot- tiny canvas for each child then display
CHALK book- wordless
the day the crayons quit (new one in December)
community coloring and creating in library - builds community in library

AUTOMOTIVE and mechanics
if I built a car
violet the pilot - cardboard planes

baking and cooking -
dragons love tacos- play doh
sweet eats with a side of science 4D

Box & Cardboard Creations
what to do with a box
a box can be many things
Not a box
Makedo cardboard creations

Mr Cornell’s dream boxes
​out of the box
epic cardboard adventures capstone
global cardboard challenge

building and architecture
Rosie revere
iggy peck
iggy peck on RIF website has lesson plans
if I built a house- KEvA PLANKS
i wanna new room
Pb teen free room designer
the village of round and square houses
my home, your home, our homes paired with music using a qr code free on cantata learning site

​coding

Cantata loops, sequences, algorithms, debugging- books with songs
made with code google
adventures in maker space
hello Ruby - free website too- design a logo or card with code
one word from Sophia
Stuck

cultural events
cinco de Mayo cantata learning
everybody bonjours- stencils for hot pens
its a small world dolls, doink green screen

Dolls and paper dolls
the doll hospital
​buncee digital storytelling tool
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Engineering
boy harnessed wind
roller coaster
lego chain reactions
Rosie revere engineer
tinkering station strawbees
Rosie’s website
STEM RESOURCE GENERATOR ON ROSIE WEBSITE

FAIRY TALES
THREE LITTLE PIGS IN RHYTHM AN rhyme
SWEET SOUNDS KINDERGARTEN CANTATA
little bins for little hands GREAT WEBSITE ARCHITECTURAL STEM FOR LITTLES
GOLDILOCKS AND THREE BERS KNOWLEDGE QUEST
FRACTURED FAIRY TALES
CAPSTONE GOLDILOCKS ROCKS
YOU CHOOSE BOOKS

​GAMING
big board game jam- bloxels
diary of a worm play- bloxels game (diary of —— ) any animal
kids write own stories about being an explorer

inventions and gadgets
awesome dawson
izzy gizmo cardboard and toilet paper roll birds
doll—e 1.0
a low-tech mission by s miller

DIY INVENTION BOX
MOST PERFECT GIFT FOR THE CREATIVE CHILD


​Lettering and Words
the story machine - typewriters typewriter fonts website to write stories
the word collector another book same title
the word collector by p Reynolds
Poetry month

metalwork
Galimoto

Murals
dot day mural
monster mural- table sized coloring sheets
lego mural- any picture can be turned into legos- upload book covers
maybe something beautiful
Traveling mural project by Shannon miller around read for the record day
hey wall

music and instruments
cantata learning stories and songs
recycled bottle make instruments
banana piano maker makey
drum dream girl- look on instructables site to make drum with music teacher
dreamworks site
pbs kids site

nature
Leaf Man
cool crafts for : flowers leaves seeds

Paper airplanes
after the fall- fold and fly website
little paper planes book - artists create paper planes
air shark, needle nose, 4D capstone series

robots

Boy + Bot for use w
Ozobots
RIF activity for ozobot journey with markers
read Balloons over broadway and K can decorate ozobots like Macy’s day parade floats
the wild robot by p brown- light up robots with paper circuits
robosauce - penguin website has great materials and videos
shrinkydinks - robot pieces online you can order shrinkydink paper on amazon and trace robot pieces
adventures in maker space miller series
@mr-gstock on twitter

Textiles
extra yarn
finger knitting
the cloud spinner- how to make a cloud in a jar / infinity scarf
Henri,s Scissors- kids make own book with collage and cutting
Sew Electric- unique introduction to programming and electronics - pebble Go has fiber arts article also - methods of making art section in pebble go w videos

tpewriter old tech
dolle 1.0

little brown free sheet online
old cds old vhs tapes
Old CDs craft book
cool crafts with old Cds
weeded books fantastic books Morris lessmore
battle bunny - fake written over and kids can go on handouts and edit for themselves
kids can do this with other weeded book
SCRAPS Lois Elhert

epic graphic novel crafts

INSPIRE MAKER IDEAS

INVENT TO LEARN
BIG BOOK OF MAKER SPACE PROJECTS
​STEAM BOOK CHALLENGES WEBSITE- librarian

​bit.ly/settingthetrendmaking
bit.ly/literacyandmaking


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