This document discusses the creation of makerspaces and intellectual design spaces in classrooms. It defines makerspaces as publicly accessible places for designing and creating, and fab labs as low-cost digital spaces for project-based learning. The document provides resources for creating a classroom makerspace, including guides from the Digital Harbor Foundation. It also describes an activity for a digital card/digital badge project using LEDs and foam construction sheets.

3. On Creating an “Intellectual Design
Space”
“Young people need their teachers to craft learning
environments that reduce stress levels, interruptions,
and confusion. Teachers can signal that the
makerspace is a different kind of learning space
through visual and physical cues.”
Martinez and Stager, 2013
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4. Some Definitions
Makerspace – “Publicly accessible places to
design and create.”
Digital Harbor Foundation,
2014
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5. Some Definitions
Fab Lab (Fabrication Lab) - “Low-cost digital
spaces where you can “make almost anything”, aimed
at supporting project-based student-centered
learning.”
FabLab@School Project
Stanford Graduate School
of Education
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6. A Guide to Creating a
Classroom Makerspace
- Digital Harbor Foundation
www.slideshare.net/stephgrimes/
add-a-makerspace-to-your-
classroom
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7. Resources for Makerspaces
Digital Harbor Foundation
www.digitalharbor.org/resources/c
lassroom-makerspace/
A Librarian’s Guide to
MakerSpaces: 16 Resources
http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/a-
librarians-guide-to-makerspaces/
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8. Kits for Making and
Makerspaces
Exploratorium Store
https://transaction.exploratorium.
edu/store/feature/tinkering
Invent to Learn
www.inventtolearn.com/stuff/
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9. ACTIVITY: The Digital
Card/Digital Badge Project
STEPS
1) Order the “Tinkering
Fundamentals Bundle” from
the Exploratorium
https://transaction.exploratorium.
edu/store/feature/tinkering
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10. ACTIVITY: The Digital
Card/Digital Badge Project
STEPS
2) Follow these directions for
making an LED pop-up card
http://makezine.com/projects/led
-pop-up-cards/
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11. ACTIVITY: The Digital
Card/Digital Badge Project
A TIP:
Try substituting Foam
Construction Sheets for the
construction paper.
ADVANTAGE: They can hold a
battery and LED wires together
easily!
Available at Michael’s and other
craft stores.
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12. REFERENCES
FabLab@School | Transformative Learning
Technologies Lab. (n.d.). Retrieved
December 22, 2014, from
https://tltl.stanford.edu/project/fablabsch
ool
LED Pop-up Cards | MAKE. (n.d.).
Retrieved November 16, 2014, from
http://makezine.com/projects/led-pop-
up-cards/
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13. REFERENCES
Martinez, S. L., & Stager, G. (2013). Invent
to learn : making, tinkering, and
engineering in the classroom. Torrance,
Calif. : Constructing Modern Knowledge
Press, 2013.
Wilkinson, K., & Petrich, M. (2013). The art
of tinkering : meet 150+ makers working at
the intersection of art, science &
technology / Karen Wilkinson & Mike
Petrich. [San Francisco] : Weldon Owen,
[2013].
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