Read More

• Maker Ed Resource Library
• A Blueprint: Maker Programs for Youth – NY Hall of Science
• Article: “Transforming a School Library into a Makerspace”
• Article: “Safety in School Makerspaces: Common Rules, Practices”
• Article: “Key Qualities for a School Makerspace”
• Article: “Stocking Up School Makerspaces”
• Article: “ReMaking Education: Designing Classroom Makerspaces for Transformative Learning”
• Article: “6 Strategies for Funding a Makerspace”
• Article: “Make a Makerspace”
• Article: “Some Advice for Maker Education”
• Book: Invent to Learn by Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager, Ph.D
• Book: Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction
• Book: How to Build a Hovercraft: Air Cannons, Magnetic Motors, and 25 Other Amazing DIY Science Projects
• Book: Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff

Supplies & Kit Suggestions

Makerspace Starter Kit

• MaKey MaKey ($50)
• Squishy Circuits ($25)
• Minecraft EDU ($40)
• LEDs ($11)
• LED Batteries ($11)
• Copper Tape ($13)
• PlayDoh ($6)
• Scratch (free)
• General Craft Supplies (paper, felt, yarn, glue, tape, scissors, pipe cleaners, etc.) (Various Costs)
• Aluminum Foil
• Cardboard
• Tackk (free) – Document your maker projects and share with the world. Easy tool to make a one page website on anything

Level-Up Your Makerspace Kit

• Printrbot Simple Metal 3D Printer ($599)
• Arduino Adventures Book ($31)
• Arduino Adventures Parts Kit ($85)
• Raspberry Pi Kit ($65)
• Legos ($25)
• Snap Circuits Kit ($40)

Kit Resources

• SparkFun Electronics
• Make: MakerShed
• Radio Shack
• Adafruit

Project Ideas

Sample Projects

• Caine’s Cardboard Challenge
• 3D Printed Digital Camera
• STEMbot: A Robot That Makes Programming Easy & Fun
• Critter Capture Gram
• LED Color Organ
• Proximity Sensor
• Infrared Trip Wire Sensor
• LED Pop Up Card
• Pi Alarm: Raspberry Pi Alarm System
• DHF Family Make Night program & projects

Inspiration

• Music: Vitamin String Quartet
  • We like to play this as background music in our makerspace as it is fun and agreeable (and there are no lyrics!)
  • Available on iTunes, Spotify
• Documentary: We Are Makers
• Caine’s Arcade
• What is “Making”?
• TED Talk: We Are Makers – Dale Dougherty, founder of Make:
• The Maker Movement
• Dive into the Maker Movement
• High Tech High School
• What Should a 21st Century School Look Like?