Makerspace Club

This year the media specialists at Greenville County Schools have started talking more about makerspaces.  I have been playing with a few things already and have added some creative outlets in my K-2 library centers, but I also wanted to give it a try with some of my older students.  I now have a 5th grade makerspace club that meets once a month!

Our first meeting in September we talked about what Makerspaces are and how we want to foster creativity.  For this meeting in October, I decided to read them Going Places by Peter and Paul Reynolds and then let them explore some low-tech ideas.

They had great fun creating different lego devices...

As well as trying some origami and duct tape crafting...

And some binary coding with beads!