What a Car! Makerspace
by Michelle Beckett
A Makerspace is a common space reserved for creative exploration, engineering, tinkering, inventing and purposeful play. In a Makerspace, children have opportunities to discover, assemble, problem solve, construct, test and explore using divergent, “outside the box” thinking. A Makerspace should inspire new passions for students and cater to their unique multiple intelligences. Our Makerspace will help students explore and understand the concepts of STEM learning with a hands-on approach. In this lesson the students will make a car that can move two feet or more by itself.
Lesson Grade Level
KindergartenLesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P0xIYm5F07T7TRLpjTUGadE7YRb4Pr9n2DmZ_ac…Related Content
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