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Learning Through Play Circa. 1917!

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Learning Through Play Circa. 1917!

You may be familiar with the Lego Education concept of “Learning Through Play” But I bet you didn’t know the concept dates back to 1917! According to Edgar James Swift “The value of constructive play as a factor in development...

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Michael MinoOct 14Comments Disabled

Embracing Our Inner Makers!

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Embracing Our Inner Makers!

According to Nick Schiner “Maker Learning is Powerful Learning. When learners engage in design experiences that are personal and accessible, authentic and challenging, collaborative and connected, and inquisitive and reflective, they have the opportunity...

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Michael MinoSep 11Comments Disabled

FAB Foundation Teachers Studio

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FAB Foundation Teachers Studio

The Fab Foundation emerged from MIT’s Center for Bits & Atoms Fab Lab Program with a mission to provide access to the tools, the knowledge and the financial means to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication to allow...

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Michael MinoJul 27Comments Disabled

Summer Fun @ Family Maker Camp!

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Summer Fun @ Family Maker Camp!

According to founder Dale Dougherty, Family Maker Camp encourages making and hands-on learning at home. Making is fun and engaging for kids as well as adults. What is making? It can be many things and use all kinds of materials and tools. Making is usually...

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Michael MinoJun 23Comments Disabled

Cardboard Projects to Make at Home

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Cardboard Projects to Make at Home

Building with cardboard is a great way to teach your kids problem solving and thanks to the Instructables web site there are some easy to reproduce at home projects that you can make with common household materials. Create games and puzzles, make fun...

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Michael MinoJun 08Comments Disabled

HomeSchool STEAM: Art Projects

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HomeSchool STEAM: Art Projects

Keep kids engaged AND learning with this collection of fun art and music projects at the Instructables web site. Every project uses materials commonly found at home, so they’re great for remote learning. Try making a rubber band harmonica, learn...

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Michael MinoApr 27Comments Disabled

Homeschool STEAM: Engineering Projects

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Homeschool STEAM: Engineering Projects

Build it, launch it, balance it, race it and more with this collection of kid-friendly engineering projects on The Instructables web site. Instructables is a community site that features over one hundred thousand projects. Instructables started as the...

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Michael MinoApr 20Comments Disabled

LGA Makerspace Featured in Hampshire Gazette

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LGA Makerspace Featured in Hampshire Gazette

The LGA Makerspace is making news in Hampshire County. An article titled “A Space to Create: Lander-Grinspoon Academy opens new makerspace for students” was published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette and featured pictures and a description of...

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Michael MinoNov 08No Comments

LGA Maker Space Construction Underway!

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LGA Maker Space Construction Underway!

The end of the 2018-19 school marked the beginning of something new at the Lander-Grinspoon Academy in Northampton, Massachusetts. Thanks to funding from the David Lear Sulman Fund construction has begun on the new Maker/Art Space at LGA! Construction...

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Michael MinoJul 05Comments Disabled

LGA Cardboard Sled Design Challenge!

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LGA Cardboard Sled Design Challenge!

When the winter weather doesn’t cooperate, do what they do in Hollywood, Go with the Green Screen! That’s what a group of Kindergarten and 6th Grade students at the Lander-Grinspoon Academy did this past week. After completing a “Cardboard...

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Michael MinoJan 28Comments Disabled