Social-Emotional Learning Using Makerspaces and Passion Projects
Step-by-Step Projects and Resources for Grades 3-6
Julie Darling
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Social-Emotional Learning Using Makerspaces and Passion Projects
Step-by-Step Projects and Resources for Grades 3-6
Julie Darling
Información del libro
Social-Emotional Learning Using Makerspaces and Passion Projects is chock-full of meaningful projects that educators can use to teach social-emotional skills in grades 3-6.
The projects show students how to create a digital calming room, prototype an inclusive playground, and make recycled cards with paper circuits to spread kindness. They also teach young makers how to focus on self-regulation and self-care, engage in community outreach by helping struggling families, and tell their own stories using podcasting and green screening. In addition, the book provides teachers with helpful strategies for scaffolding passion projects, funding a makerspace, and tips for building community and celebrating diversity.
With the engaging ideas in this book, educators will be able to help their students build direct connections to social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making, self-management, and self-awareness (CASEL's SEL Framework).
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Información
Chapter 1 Use Cardboard to Build Community
Projects, Activities, and Resources Included in This Chapter
- ♦ Activity 1: Establishing Safety Rules
- ♦ Handout: General Makerspace Safety Rules
- ♦ Handout: Stop - Breathe - Look and Think
- ♦ Handout: Tips for Using Makedo Tools
- ♦ Project 1: Make Giant Dice for a Gaming Night
- ♦ Project 2: Host a Cardboard Challenge
- ♦ Reproducible: Our Makerspace Is Hosting a Cardboard Challenge!
- ♦ Handout: Cardboard Challenge Reflection
Safety Considerations
Activity 1: Establishing Safety Rules
- ♦ By the end of this lesson, students will understand, and know how to demonstrate, basic safety considerations needed when working with makerspace tools.
- ♦ Students will create and/or adopt a list of safety rules to be used when working with makerspace tools.
- ♦ Thinking through the steps needed to complete a project.
- ♦ Considering and practicing using tools safely.
- ♦ Making good choices when using tools.
- ♦ Regulating impulses.
Step 1: Gather Your Materials
What You'll Need
- ♦ One of each of the tools you'll be using in your makerspace activities, for demonstrative purposes.
- ♦ Copies for all students of the Stop - Breathe - Look and Think Handout, with a few extra copies to post near work stations.
- ♦ Copies for all students of the General Makerspace Safety Rules, computers, tablets, or paper and pencil if you're planning on developing your safety rules together. Safety rules should also be posted near work stations.
Step 2: Consult Manufacturer-Provided Safety Guides
Step 3 (Optional): Create Safety Rules Together
- ♦ What should we watch out for when using this tool?
- ♦ What can you do to keep from getting poked by this sharp end?
- ♦ How much space do we need to work with this tool safely?
- ♦ What should you do if you see someone making an unsafe choice?
- ♦ What should you do if you or a friend gets hurt?
Step 4: Post Your Safety Rules
Step 5: Make a Plan for Unsafe Choices
Handout: General Makerspace Safety Rules
- Always follow instructions carefully If you don't understand something - ask!
- Wait to touch tools/equipment until instructed to do so.
- Only use tools that you have been trained to use safely.
- Report any accident or injury to the instructor immediately, even a papercut.
- Know where the Band-Aids and the first aid kits are.
- Always wear protective gear when needed. For example, wear safety goggles when using a hammer or a saw.
- Always clean up any messes you make.
- Make sure all equipment is unplugged, and put away, before leaving.
- If you use anything hot, leave it in the spot reserved for hot items.
- When you are in the makerspace, wear closed-toe shoes.
- If you have long hair, make sure to tie it back.
Step 6: Teach Self-Management and Responsible Decision-Making with Stop - Breathe - Look and Think
Handout: Stop - Breathe - Look and Think
- Stop and take a deep breath.
- 2. Take a moment to think through the steps for how to use that tool safely. If you can't remember these steps, ask.
- 3. Open your eyes and look around your space.
- 4. Ask yourself these questions:
- Do you have enough space to safely use this tool? If not, how can you solve that problem?
- What do you need to be careful about in this space to keep yourself and others safe? For example, is there a cord that could be tripped over? If so, pay attention and make sure to warn anyone who might trip over the cord.