Elementary Teaching Blog
How can teachers make learning more engaging without adding more work?
This teaching blog shares simple, practical ideas to help elementary teachers bring joy back into learning. You’ll find low-prep strategies, reading and STEM connections, and real classroom insights that support both students and teachers.
Making AWESOME Makerspaces: The 7 Attributes of a Great Makerspace
Are you ready to integrate makerspace into your learning environment? Do you crave hands-on learning that engages your creativity and problem-solving skills? If so, it's time to join the makerspace movement.
Starting a Makerspace? 5 Fundamental Ways to Launching a Makerspace
Are you a maker at heart? Do you believe innovation and creativity should be nurtured and encouraged in future generations? Do you want to foster a collaborative space and be integral to the maker movement? You should consider starting a makerspace in your classroom, media center, or homeschool classroom!
How to Introduce Practical Procedures in Your School or Classroom Makerspace
While starting a maker space in your classroom, school library, or homeschool area can be an overwhelming task, you can breathe a little more comfortable knowing that the maker mindset community encourages you to approach making in your own way with a focus on new things and new skills.
Makerspaces encourage creative thinking, taking risks, different ways of doing things, project-based learning, and learning from failure for young people.
How To Organize and Label Your School or Classroom Makerspace
Organizing and labeling a makerspace can be an intimidating task for classroom teachers or media specialists in school libraries.
But it doesn't have to be! Whether you're starting school makerspaces in a school library or in the classroom, if you're part of the growing maker movement, you can make the most of your maker space with the right organization and labels. With a little effort, it's easy to turn your space into a creative hub that's ready for all sorts of tinkering and exploration. So grab your supplies, and let's get started!

