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.
Activities
Dueling Makers
Tiny Techniques
rDC Writings
Books for Educators
Picture Books
More
- Cardboard Boat
- Cardboard Pen Holder
- Easy Wire and Tissue Paper Flowers (video)
- High Five Device
- How to Use Shrink Plastic (video)
- Inefficient Bubble Wands (video)
- Loose Parts
- Maker Connectors (video)
- Mini Stomp Rockets
- Parachute Pals
- Plastic Bottle Pencil Case (video)
- Recycled Treasure Box (video)
- Recycled Wind Sculpture (video)
- Rocketship
Every Wednesday at 4pm, two of your favorite reDiscover Facilitators race against the clock to build their own versions of the week's project!
- Tinkering and Prototyping Materials (article)(video)
- Cardboard, the Ultimate Building Material, by John Umekubo
- 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)
- 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
Activities
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
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