• 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

Main Dueling Makers Page

Every Wednesday at 4pm, two of your favorite reDiscover Facilitators race against the clock to build their own versions of the week's project!

• Episode 1 - Marble Runs
• Episode 2 - Costume Masks
• Episode 3 - 3D Self Portraits
• Episode 4 - Wearables
• Episode 5 - Finger Puppets
• Episode 6 - House Plants
• Episode 7 - Favorite City Spots
• Episode 8 - Pet Stuff
• Episode 9 - FIVE ITEMS ONLY

Tiny Techniques - Super short videos for quick info

• How to Use a Canary Cardboard Cutter
• How to Use a Hot Glue Gun
• How to Make a Hole in Cardboard
• How to Tear Tape

Longer Technique Videos

• Maker Connectors
• Tinkering Hinges
• Creative Clamping
• More Creative Clamping
• Tools and Materials for Prototyping
• How to Fail Like a Pro

Our YouTube Cardboard Construction Playlist

• 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)

• Youth Makerspace Playbook(pdf)
• The Art of Tinkering
• d.school toolkit - design thinking(pdf)
• Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

• Ada Twist, Scientist, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
• Balloons Over Broadway, Melissa Sweet
• The Dumpster Diver, Janet Wong and David Roberts
• How Do Bridges Not Fall Down, Jennifer Shand and Srimale Bassani
• How Do Seesaws Go Up and Down, Jennifer Shand and Srimale Bassani
• Human Computer: Mary Jackson, Engineer, Andi Diehn and Katie Mazeika
• If I Built a Car, Chris Van Dusen
• If I Built a House, Chris Van Dusen
• Iggy Peck, Architect, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
• The Most Magnificent Thing, Ashley Spires
• Papa's Mechanical Fish, Candace Fleming
• Randy Riley's Really Big Hit, Chris Van Dusen
• Rosie Revere, Engineer, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
• Sofia Valdez, Future Prez, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
• The Tin Forest, Helen Ward
• Violet the Pilot, Steve Breen

Activities

• Bottle Cap Pixel Art
• Tinker Sprinkler

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

• Tinkering School
• Exploratorium Education
• Exploratorium Tinkering Studio
• Maker Ed - Resources for Youth Makerspaces
• Maker Ed - Resource Library