We offer professional development and parent workshops on tinkering, art, and sustainability for educators serving preschool-8th grade. reDiscover's educator workshop modules range from setting up learning spaces that inspire a maker mindset to working with upcycled materials to safety training on specific hand and power tools. Children's spontaneous, creative self-expression increases their sense of competence...
1-10 Day Residency We supply tools, materials, and expert maker-educators; you designate a space and we kit it out. Each day, cycle through multiple classes for tool training and small take-home projects, or have one class go in-depth with woodworking and tinkering. A typical full day workshop introduces children to clamps, drills and saws, combining...
Grade Ranges: Pre-K, 1st-5th, and 6th-8th 60-90 minutes once a week (After school programs run for 8-12 weeks to match your existing after school program.) Tinkering Workshop is a place where children imagine, dream, and think; a setting for making things, experimenting and fiddling with many materials, an unfiltered space for children to work with...
Ideal for Elementary School 2 hours reDiscover provides all materials and tools necessary for children to create large and small structures, sculptures, inventions, and other explorations of hands-on materials. Our materials include cardboard boxes, cardboard tubes, bamboo, fabric, mylar, rope, inner tubes, and lumber. Inspirational and safety guidelines posters define a temporary space and establish...
Grades K-2 Discounts available 60-90 minutes In this program K-2 students explore the concepts of resource conservation and the power of imagination culminating in the creation of an assemblage project. An age-appropriate lesson inspired by 'The Tin Forest' by Helen Ward introduces an conservation-linked art activity using recycled and upcycled materials. Students will participate in...