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Maker Skill Building
Maker Skills Daily Feature
Lesson Starters
Activate student engagement with these short, self-contained activities which offer a powerful way to settle your students, ignite their curiosity, and seamlessly transition into deeper hands-on projects, cultivating a culture of creation and discovery every day.
Design Challenge Generator
Get ready to spark some serious creativity with the Design Challenge Generator! This fun, fast-paced activity helps you invent unique design challenges on the fly. It’s simple: we’ll combine a “Design a…” prompt with a “That…” requirement to create an endless supply of exciting, unexpected problems to solve. Perfect for warming up your design thinking muscles or kicking off a new project!
Do you Have the Mind of a Maker?
When learning is guided by curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and compassion, we all become more empathetic and persistent problem-solvers, teammates, and changemakers.
Featured Teacher
Jo Belyea-Doerrman
Shady Grove Middle School, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland
Engineering and Technology Teacher
Jo started partnering with KID Museum in 2017 when her school was selected as a partnership school for the Invent the Future program. Since that time, Jo has participated in multiple teacher professional development opportunities with KID Museum including Maker Studio, LatinX Maker Lab and the Teach for the Future Fellowship program. Through all these experiences, Jo has added to her toolbox of maker skills and approaches.
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Thematic Units
Each unit contains 4-6 lessons each encouraging students to EXPLORE, IMAGINE and CREATE
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