Makerspaces is a first-to-market resource for early childhood
professionals that focuses on how to cultivate the maker mind-set in the
youngest learners, how to engage young children in maker-centered
learning, design and introduce makerspaces, and how to select/use
open-ended tools and materials.
Field tested in real classrooms, home settings, libraries, and museums,
the authors have practical suggestions, student samples, implementers'
suggestions, photographs, anchor charts, and many other forms of
documentation. Each chapter focuses on a different type of makerspace,
details ways to successfully set up that makerspaces, offers provocation
ideas for how to extend learning, and shows how educators can document
evidence of how a child can develop a stronger growth mind-set by
interacting with the makerspace. Full-color demonstrative photos give
readers additional visual guidance.