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Tinkering with Circuits
They started with four piles – power sources, simple loads, switches, and complex loads – and by the time their hour of tinkering had passed, our students were expertly connecting multiple circuit...
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Wall Climbing Whatsits
Wall Climbing Whatsits One of the Creativity Lab’s top priorities is to get our community comfortable with the idea of making things, and perhaps more importantly, to learn to be persistent when things...
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Expanding Possibility: the Transformative Nature of Scribble Machines
Wednesday, December 18 was not only my birthday, but also the Lighthouse Community Charter School Winter Expo. Parents are required to attend three events each school year and the Winter Expo is one...
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Adaptable Habitats: Integrating Curriculum into 2nd Grade Making
The 2nd graders at Lighthouse are spending the next few weeks learning about habitats of the Bay area and how animals adapt to live in them. Since we have a weekly making time, we decided to do an...
View ArticleSmartblog Award Winning Blogger On School Creativity, Aaron Vanderwerff 06/25...
Mr. V was interviewed on Tuesday, June 24th by EDUCATION TALK RADIO about Making and Designing in a Creative Classroom and School. Listen to the interview here: SMARTBLOG AWARD WINNING BLOGGER ON...
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Summer Making – Fiber Arts, Animation, & Makey Makey!
Over the last three weeks I have watched one of our regular drop-in makers, Yarely (a 4th going on 5th grader), go from making very simple, crafty, step-by-step projects for kids to making projects...
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Work-in-Progress: the process of making ideas a reality
Throughout the summer making program, we used several techniques to help students develop their ideas at different stages of making. The processes of drawing, prototyping, and documentation are just as...
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