Activity Guides
These resources are aimed at helping children learn through making in home, school, and community settings.
Tool Guides
We use these resources to teach safe and effective tool use at reDiscover Center.
Pedagogy
- Tinkering and Prototyping Materials (article)(video)
- Cardboard, the Ultimate Building Material, by John Umekubo
- Praising Process
- Maker Safety - What will happen when
- How to NOT Cut Your Arms Off (video)
- How to Fail Like a Pro (video)
- Create is a Verb (video)
- The Coffee Shop Tinkering Story (video)
Articles
- The Maker Mindset - Dale Dougherty
- What's the big idea; Toward a pedagogy of idea power - Seymour Papert
- Seeing Young Children with New Eyes, Part1
- Seeing Young Children with New Eyes, Part2
- Piaget's Constructivism, Papert's Constructionism: What's the difference? - Edith Ackermann
- What Would We Like Kids to Take Away from Tinkering School, with Respect to Fabrication?
Videos
- Gever Tulley - Life lessons through tinkering
- AnnMarie Thomas - Hands-on science with squishy circuits
- Mitch Resnick - Let's teach kids to code
- Carol Dweck - How to help every child fulfill their potential (whiteboard animation)
Other Sites
