What are you making this summer? It doesn’t have to be for school next year.
One of the great things about MakerEd is the vast variety of mediums to explore.
Are you cooking or baking or barbecuing?
Gardening?
Jams & Jellies?
Candles?
Knitting, sewing, crocheting?
Making jewelry?
Painting?
Redoing shelves or cabinets (or rooms)?
Woodworking of some kind?
Do you have a local Farmers Market to visit?
That is all #MakerMindset. Have fun with it.
Now, many of those could be utilized in school. Math and Science are easy connections. But what about other subjects? History, Geography, Languages, Government...
Schools should have gardens. What can be grown in the country you are studying or what was grown in the time you are studying? Can you do some baking/cooking and talk about countries and their foods, their spices, the Spice Trade, trade in general? Candle making is good for scents and spices that are found in certain areas of the world. What are the clothes in the country or time or book you are studying, how did they make them, what material, where did it come from? So many questions that can be asked. Once you start asking, the students will naturally pick up the questioning.
Remember, it is about using the artefact as a jumping off point for a variety of discussions.
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