Implementation Plan
I. Preparing (November 2018-January 2019)
A. Send the proposal to principal and others to share how Makerspace can excite the students
B. Start talking to Teachers about skills that will be in used in the Makerspace room with email blasts/ faculty meetings
1. Critical/ Logical Thinking
2. Designing and Creating
3. Decomposition
4. Computational Thinking
5. Growth Mindset
6. Engineering
7. Coding
8. Science
9. Math
10. Technology
C. Start writing grants (and Donor Choose) to get electronics and furniture
1. Ozobots
2. Micro:bits
3. Little Bits
4. Legos
5. iPads
6. Containers
7. Tables
8. Bean Bags Chairs and Stools
9. Dash and Dot
10. TeacherGeek Maker Cart
11. Codeapillar
12. Bee-Bots
II. Planning (February 2019-May 2019)
A. Find a Place/ Room
B. Will a teacher be in the room at all times? Or will this be a room that teachers would sign up to use?
C. Talk to The Welman Project (free resources to educators and non-profit organizations) to look for these things-
1. Containers
2. Tables
3. Cabinets
4. Arts and Craft Materials
5. Tools
D. Teachers will do different activities working with these skills that will be in used in the Makerspace room in faculty meetings/
PLCs
1. Critical/ Logical Thinking
2. Designing and Creating
3. Decomposition
4. Computational Thinking
5. Growth Mindset
6. Engineering
7. Coding
8. Science
9. Math
10. Technology
E. Set up a Committee for Implementation
1. Administration
2. Teachers
3. Parents
4. Community
5. Students
F. Professional Development (with Kohn or other experts from Academic Educational Technology Department)
1. Engineering Design Process
2. Computational Thinking
3. Coding
G. Visit other makerspace rooms
III. Implementation (August 2019-December 2019)
A. Set up committee
1. Administration
2. Teachers
3. Parents
4. Community
5. Students
B. Have Afterschool and Saturday workdays to set up room
C. Ask for Donations from the parents
1. Recycled Materials
2. Fabric
3. Plastic
4. Paper
D. Have a Reveal Party in December 2019 or January 2020
Do you want to join me in having the students create and design in a Makerspace room?
A. Send the proposal to principal and others to share how Makerspace can excite the students
B. Start talking to Teachers about skills that will be in used in the Makerspace room with email blasts/ faculty meetings
1. Critical/ Logical Thinking
2. Designing and Creating
3. Decomposition
4. Computational Thinking
5. Growth Mindset
6. Engineering
7. Coding
8. Science
9. Math
10. Technology
C. Start writing grants (and Donor Choose) to get electronics and furniture
1. Ozobots
2. Micro:bits
3. Little Bits
4. Legos
5. iPads
6. Containers
7. Tables
8. Bean Bags Chairs and Stools
9. Dash and Dot
10. TeacherGeek Maker Cart
11. Codeapillar
12. Bee-Bots
II. Planning (February 2019-May 2019)
A. Find a Place/ Room
B. Will a teacher be in the room at all times? Or will this be a room that teachers would sign up to use?
C. Talk to The Welman Project (free resources to educators and non-profit organizations) to look for these things-
1. Containers
2. Tables
3. Cabinets
4. Arts and Craft Materials
5. Tools
D. Teachers will do different activities working with these skills that will be in used in the Makerspace room in faculty meetings/
PLCs
1. Critical/ Logical Thinking
2. Designing and Creating
3. Decomposition
4. Computational Thinking
5. Growth Mindset
6. Engineering
7. Coding
8. Science
9. Math
10. Technology
E. Set up a Committee for Implementation
1. Administration
2. Teachers
3. Parents
4. Community
5. Students
F. Professional Development (with Kohn or other experts from Academic Educational Technology Department)
1. Engineering Design Process
2. Computational Thinking
3. Coding
G. Visit other makerspace rooms
III. Implementation (August 2019-December 2019)
A. Set up committee
1. Administration
2. Teachers
3. Parents
4. Community
5. Students
B. Have Afterschool and Saturday workdays to set up room
C. Ask for Donations from the parents
1. Recycled Materials
2. Fabric
3. Plastic
4. Paper
D. Have a Reveal Party in December 2019 or January 2020
Do you want to join me in having the students create and design in a Makerspace room?