Providing students with opportunities to invent, tinker, make, test and refine in order to foster the development of design thinking.
Connecting the makerspace to real world problems. This may include challenging students to engineer solutions to defined problems in the local neighborhood community or other areas of the world.
Creating solutions based on background knowledge, research, and empathy for the end user.
Allowing for open-ended exploration and student choice/ideas developing children’s ownership in a student-centered learning environment.
Communicating and collaborating with peers to refine and improve solutions.
Designing with an interdisciplinary mindset.
Sharing and celebrating successes and failures with an authentic audience.
