School Library Makerspaces: Grades 6-12

by Leslie B. Preddy

Overview

An essential resource for intermediate, middle, and high school librarians that guides the planning, learning, and implementation of a school library makerspace.

• Explains how to transform school libraries—always considered a destination for thinking and learning—to also be the place of doing, creating, and producing

• Supplies practical guidance on makerspace design, safety, instruction, budget, mentoring, and more

• Includes a "Think, Create, Share, and Grow" section with each makerspace activity that supplies learning and enrichment resources, guidance, and step-by-step how-to instructions

• Provides appendixes of national and local events; of ideas and supplies for makerspace activities; and of maker communities and maker resources

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610694957
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/24/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	193
File size:	86 MB
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About the Author

Leslie B. Preddy is the president of AASL and has been the school librarian at Perry Meridian Middle School in Indianapolis, IN, since 1992.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The School Library Makerspace
Makerspaces in School Libraries
Facility
Money and Budgets
Guided Instruction
Learning and Building Knowledge
Independent Challenges
Self-Directed Experiment
Pathfinders
Learning Standards
AASL Standards for 21st-Century Learner
Think
Create
Share
Grow
Common Core
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening
Mathematics: Standards for Mathematical Practice
STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Communication
Mentors
Safety, Rules, and Instructions
Safety
Rules
Instructions
Badges, Merit Patches, Participation Recognition
Digital Badges
Supplies
References
Chapter 2: Library Makerspace Programming and Activities
Creative Commons
Makerspace Projects
Community
DIY: Do It Yourself
Foodcrafting and Food Gardens
Fashion and Textiles
Fine Arts
Hobbies and Crafts Revised
STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Teamwork
Repurposing Books and Periodicals
Upcycling Crafts
Activities
Bee Balm
Body Spray
Coffee Cup Cooking
Comics and Graphic Novels
Embroidery Logo
Flower Pressed Designs
Game Tiles
Kite Flying
Loom Knit
Music Composer
Paper Quilting
Plarn Weaving
Puzzled Inspiration
Recycled Beading
Soaps and Scrubs
Tile Art
Video Production
Yarn Mâché
Chapter 3: Make and Take
Bookmarks
Button Bookmark
Paint Strip Bookmark
Pony Bead Bookmark
Desk Blotter
Desktop Write-on Board
Journal Covers
Book Jacket Journal Cover
Felt Journal Cover
Gift Wrap Photo Frame Journal Cover
Keyboard Frame
Library Envelopes
Magnetic Poetry
Money Tin
Office Organizer
Pencil Case
Tissue Paper Tealight
Groups
Recycled Road
Tetrahedron
Appendix 1: Glossary
Appendix 2: National and Local Events & Contests
Appendix 3: Ideas and Inspirations
Appendix 4: Maker Communities and Resources
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2014
This guide to setting up and justifying a maker space begins promisingly with practical and helpful information on topics such as space and setup, budgeting, necessary materials and equipment and safety rules. Preddy connects the idea of the school library maker space with the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner as well as the common core and the STEM movement. She outlines the possibility of rewarding the makers with digital badges and participatory recognition. She also suggests that some of the making should be done in the school community for the greater good, rather than simply the making itself. The bulk of this book is made up of potential projects to do in the school makerspace, ranging from making lip balm and soap to weaving and storyboarding. The focus is on analog rather than digital, with the only tech-based project being creating a video. While this book may be of use to the solo practitioner, it suffers from poor design. Dark and shadowy photographs vary from project to project, cluttered pathfinder pages, as well as the orientation of directions, change from vertical to horizontal for a single project (pg. 110), making the instructions hard to understand. Much of the information contained within is available online in a more attractive format. Indeed, one of the sources sited (makerspace.com) has a free "playbook" available on this very subject.—Stacy Dillon, LREI, New York City

School Library Journal

This guide to setting up and justifying a makerspace begins promisingly with practical and helpful information on topics such as space and setup, budgeting, necessary materials, equipment, and safety rules. Preddy connects the idea of the school library makerspace with the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner as well as the common core and the STEM movement.” —School Library Journal

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