Education
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Full STEAM into Summer Camp with Strawbees and MakeDo
Get ready for an amazing STEAM Summer Camp! Our education team had a fantastic webinar session brainstorming ways teachers can merge the creative potential of Makedo and Strawbees. They joined Strawbees Creator Erik Tortensson Boji to share tons of summer...
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Classroom Inspiration: the Castle Challenge
Covey Denton, STEM coordinator and Upper School Science Teacher in Wilson, North Carolina recently shared a design challenge she embarked upon with her students. We loved it so much that we asked her for more details. Exploring the engineering design...
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How to make a cardboard maze
You’re building a Maze! Hooray! As with any maze adventure, there’s no telling exactly where it will go or when it will end. The same goes for building one. Each Makedo maze is unique and varies according to the cardboard...
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The Importance of Play in Education
Whether you built skyscrapers from blocks, folded extravagant paper planes or created sculptures in the sandpit, reminiscing about childhood play often evokes warmth and nostalgia. Despite these positive connotations, the inclusion of play in education is often seen as an...
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In the Classroom: Father-Son Book Club
I’m a library teacher at Brambleton Middle School in Virginia, USA. I began a Father-Son Book Club in an effort to get more dads involved in school activities. I wanted to provide opportunities for dads to serve as reading role...
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In the Classroom: Building a Cardboard Dome Reading Space with Makedo
Makedo is a system of tools for cardboard construction to make it easy for students to use cardboard to create anything they imagine … even a new room! Grade 8 students from St Marguerite d’Youville Catholic School, Ontario, constructed a...
