Description

Many early learning teachers do not feel confident in their knowledge and expertise with the maker movement. Makerspaces is a first-to-market resource that focuses on how to cultivate the maker mind-set in the youngest learners through maker-centered environments, design and material selection, and open-ended play.

Field tested in real classrooms, home settings, libraries, and museums, the authors have practical suggestions, student samples, implementers’ suggestions, photographs, anchor charts, and many other forms of documentation.

Award-winning authors. Michelle Kay Compton and Robin Chappele Thompson's first book StoryMaking won the Midwest Book Award in the Education category. The authors present regularly at national and regional conferences throughout the year.

Makerspaces will contain more than 300 full-color photos, giving the book a similar aesthetic to the Loose Parts series.

This resource offers a visual guide with demonstrative photos on how to create effective makerspaces.

Practical suggestions, anchor charts, and many other forms of documentation are added value to this resource for the busy classroom teachers.

Audience: classroom teachers of children ages three to eight years old, family child care providers, center directors, before- and afterschool programs, museum program associates, and librarians.