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Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School by Laura Fleming – A Book Review

Fleming, Laura. Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School. 1st ed. Corwin Connected Educators. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Sage, 2015. 65 Pages. ISBN-10: 1483382826, ISBN-13: 978-1483382821.*        Fleming’s book is an attempt at giving school leaders and teachers a how-to guide on setting up a physical makerspace in […]

Maker Faire Bay Area 2018: “How Maker Education Can Help Teachers Integrate Subjects and Standards”

I had the great pleasure to talk at Maker Faire last month on how teachers can use maker education to integrate Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core Requirements in Science, Math, ELA, and History. It is related to my previous blog, 4th Grade Science, History, Math, and ELA with Isamu Noguchi, but I go through the design […]

4th Grade Science, History, Math, and ELA with Isamu Noguchi

“Academic disciplines are often seen as separate fields of study with little in common, when in reality they are interconnected through a multitude of complex nuances” -Tonya Scott and Todd Twyman.       When we integrate our subjects, we are creating a real-world experience for our students. Have you ever had a student ask […]

ACOE’s Integrated Learning Specialist Program, Strategies and Resources for Arts Integration (Course A)

My revelation in taking the “Strategies and Resources for Arts Integration” class, provided by Alameda County Office of Education through their Integrated Learning Specialist Program, was not how I can integrate maker education with my K-8 students, but how I can help my teacher students do so. As I speak to the classroom teachers I […]

HES’s Educational Philosophy

My educational philosophy is fluid, as I am always learning. But I do have some educational beliefs that are permanent with my teaching process. As a teacher my responsibility is to provide engaging and dynamic curriculum for my students, to expect my students to have autonomy with how they learn and have grit when faced […]

SSU’s Maker Education Certification Program Volunteer Reflection: Exploratorium/Tinkering Studio’s Exploring Light

I took the first lesson of Exploratorium’s “Exploring Light: Hands-on Activities and Strategies for Teachers” on Coursera and have already learned more than I expected in two hours. I learned about how perception can be tricky and why, Ames room – a popular optical illusion demonstration, cow’s eye dissection (because they are similar to human’s […]

2017 – 2018 School Year Offerings. From the New from HES Series.

2017 – 2018 School Year Offerings Hephaestus Education Studio (HES) loves to integrate what you are teaching your students in the classroom into maker workshops. Think you can’t combine history, forces of motion, math, and literature into one workshop? Think again! In fact, send us your challenges to our twitter handle, @HephEduStudio, using the hashtag #challengeme! Beginning […]