Tinkering Pedagogy
These resources are aimed at helping children learn through making in home, school, and community settings. The Tool Use Onesheets are part of our official documentation for Tinkering Programs at reDiscover.
By rDC Staff:
- Tinkering and Prototyping Materials (article)(video)
- Praising Process
- Maker Safety - What will happen when
- The First Rule of Glue Guns
- Creative Clamping (video)
- More Creative Clamping (video)
- How to NOT Cut Your Arms Off (video)
- How to Fail Like a Pro (video)
- Create is a Verb (video)
- Maker Connectors (video)
- Tinkering Hinges (video)
- The Coffee Shop Tinkering Story (video)
- Why Kids and Power Tools Go Well Together (video)
Other 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?
Educator Books:
- Youth Makerspace Playbook(pdf)
- The Art of Tinkering
- d.school toolkit - design thinking(pdf)
- Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
Kids Picture Books at reDiscover (for younger tinkerers):
- Iggy Peck, Architect, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
- Rosie Revere, Engineer, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
- Ada Twist, Scientist, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
- The Dumpster Diver, Janet Wong and David Roberts
- If I Built a Car, Chris Van Dusen
- If I Built a House, Chris Van Dusen
- Violet the Pilot, Steve Breen
- The Most Magnificent Thing, Ashley Spires
- Papa's Mechanical Fish, Candace Fleming
- Randy Riley's Really Big Hit, Chris Van Dusen
- Balloons Over Broadway, Melissa Sweet
- The Tin Forest, Helen Ward
Links:
- Tinkering School
- Exploratorium Education
- Exploratorium Tinkering Studio
- Maker Ed - Resources for Youth Makerspaces
- Maker Ed - Resource Library
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)
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Clamps
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