Making Middle School
eBook - ePub

Making Middle School

Cultivating Critical Literacy and Interdisciplinary Learning in Maker Spaces

  1. 125 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Making Middle School

Cultivating Critical Literacy and Interdisciplinary Learning in Maker Spaces

About this book

Making Middle School is the story of eighth-grade English teacher Steve Fulton and science teacher Tiffany Green's explorations of the intersections between critical literacy and science through maker spaces alongside their students.

Steve and Tiffany, with thinking partner Cindy Urbanski, use the idea of make to center student learning in their classrooms as well as to democratize learning, back-loading English and science standards while front-loading the current focus on STEAM.

Making—following one's own desire to create—is based on principles of connected learning, where students work in community to challenge themselves, to be creative, and to wonder about their world. Making represents a pathway directed by the learner and allowed to unfold organically, without a scripted route or destination. By looking up close at the real work of teachers and students, Fulton and Urbanski illustrate the rich and real applications of a make-based approach in today's middle school classrooms.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. CONTENTS
  5. FOREWORD
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. CHAPTER 1 The Sweet Spot
  8. CHAPTER 2 Hacking Traditional Schooling: The Dialogic Classroom and the Notion of Play
  9. CHAPTER 3 Hacktivism in the Classroom
  10. CHAPTER 4 Beginning Make in Middle School: Science and Literacy Histories
  11. CHAPTER 5 Integrating Novel and Science Content through Building a Sustainable Cardboard City
  12. CHAPTER 6 Paper Engineering: Pop-Up Books and Social Justice
  13. CHAPTER 7 A Few More Makes
  14. CHAPTER 8 Making STEAM: Diving In and Assessing It
  15. APPENDIXES
  16. REFERENCES
  17. INDEX
  18. AUTHORS