LEARN joined John Adams for a morning session on fostering the maker mindset in our diverse students. This is a wonderful staff, full of life and excitement. We read a book, had a collective brainstorm on what is a makerspace
STEAM in K • June 13th 2019
LEARN has started playing with kindergarten students because they’re awesome! Our first STEAM workshop with the littles was as we expected, amazing… Students explored ozobots, Makey Makey, circuit cubes, lego, building with cardboard and then shared their experiences with us
Micro:bit 101 @ CVHS • April 30th, 2019
I say 101 in jest because these high schoolers were amazing! Within one day about 100 students got to play and experiment with Micro:bits and showed their teachers that technology is easy, make good lessons and we’ll take care of
Edgewater Grade 1 Discovers Rockets • May 9th 2019
On a chilly spring day in May, LEARN spend the day making two different types of rockets; straw rockets and water rockets. We looked a design techniques, flight, and aerodynamics… Students enjoyed the process of building their rockets, and LOVE
Forest Hill Elementary – 2019
The LEARN team visited Forest Hill Jr. (Grades K-2)… We spend two days in our Pop-up Makerspace and were able to have the whole school experience the magic of an open creative space. The students were excellent, the teachers were
Micro:Bits at MacDonald High School – 2019
The LEARN team spend a day with our Micro:bit pilot classes at MacDonald HS. Our goal was to have students experiment with a bunch of peripherals that hook up to the M:B for a possible future bigger project… The engagement
Mansonville Elementary School – 2019
LEARN spent the day at Mansonville Elementary of ETSB and had a wonderful day of learning, tinkering and playing… Our STEAM day was with the whole school, all 27 students from grades 1 to 6… The students worked very well
Laurentian Elementary School – 2019
LEARN spend some time at Laurentian Elementary (SWLSB) exploring the language of computers… The students explored Scratch, TurtleArt, plus constructed some pretty cool cranky contraptions, Lego vehicles, and artbots. Lots of hard fun for all; the students loved it and
Pierre Elliott Trudeau STEAM Exploration
LEARN spent the day at PETS exploring WeDo and Sphero. The aim was to let the Ss explore the tools in preparation of making characters for a winter story. As they were playing they were thinking about how they plan
Pop-Up Makerspace at Arundel – 2018
We were able to transform a classroom into a full-on makerspace and then take it all down in a single day! Look at all the learning that go done!