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Last year, I had a vision of creating a space within the library to give students an opportunity to use their creativity to tinker, build, design, invent and PLAY! Many of the students at my school do not have the resources to engage their imagination with hands-on activities. So, I converted a storage room within the library into a Makerspace Room! My goal is to fill this room with lots of opportunities for students to have unstructured learning and play. The students will use clay and paints to explore their artistic talents by creating clay designs. STEM is also a big focus at our school, the students can experiment and have hands-on experience in testing the principles of gravity and motion with the Marble Run or the Marble Maze Logic game. Students will also learn about the principles of electrical circuitry and alternative energy with the Snap Circuit set. I also have a wall of dry erase poster boards, so I wanted to have dry erase pens for students to draw, write messages, or create a poem. I will pair all of these activities with books to spark their imaginations. This space, along with the materials will be accessible to all students during our "free choice activity". The teacher’s can also schedule the use of this room during class time and it can be used for the after school STEM program. I am really excited to see this place blossom into cool place for my students to discover the scientist, the artist, the engineer, and the mathematician within them.

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Last year, I had a vision of creating a space within the library to give students an opportunity to use their creativity to tinker, build, design, invent and PLAY! Many of the students at my school do not have the resources to engage their imagination with hands-on activities. So, I converted a storage room within the library into a Makerspace Room! My goal is to fill this room with lots of opportunities for students to have unstructured learning and play. The students will use clay and paints to explore their artistic talents by creating clay designs. STEM is also a big focus at our school, the students can experiment and have hands-on experience in testing the principles of gravity and motion with the Marble Run or the Marble Maze Logic game. Students will also learn about the principles of electrical circuitry and alternative energy with the Snap Circuit set. I also have a wall of dry erase poster boards, so I wanted to have dry erase pens for students to draw, write messages, or create a poem. I will pair all of these activities with books to spark their imaginations. This space, along with the materials will be accessible to all students during our "free choice activity". The teacher’s can also schedule the use of this room during class time and it can be used for the after school STEM program. I am really excited to see this place blossom into cool place for my students to discover the scientist, the artist, the engineer, and the mathematician within them.

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