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Item Nr: B 95374 Title: Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
Grade Lvl: T Author: Martinez, Silvia Lobow Stager, Gary
Length: 237 Prod/Pub: Constructing Modern Knowledge Press
Copyright: 2013 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 0 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  Advocates for children to learn by doing, making and building through direct experience with materials. Authors Martinez and Stager describe "learning learning" through engagement, design and building. Explains the maker movement. Three activities of the modern maker movement can revolutionize learning: fabrication, physical computing (robotics, Arduino, etc.), and programming. Promotes the use of technology to make, repair or customize the things we need bringing together engineering, design and computer science. Constructionism.

  Subjects:
  340 - COMPUTERS/TABLETS
  367 - CREATION (LITERARY, ARTISTIC, ETC.)
  368 - CREATIVE THINKING
  394 - DESIGN
  1401 - HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
  1408 - INTERDISCIPLINARY/INTEGRATED CURRICULUM
  636 - INVENTIONS
  1218 - LEARNING, PSYCHOLOGY OF
  1613 - REQUEST--AEA
  1808 - SCIENCE PROJECTS
  1057 - TECHNOLOGY