TinkerCAD Ying Yang – Master the Align Button!
TinkerCAD Ying Yang - Master the Align Button!
This is a great introductory project to the align button! It is a useful tool that all my students nee…
Category: Innovative Arts
Understanding a rubber band car – project details and advice
Here are instructions about how to make a rubber band car. I give advice and show you the basic steps, feel free to customize your project however you…
Raft Creativity Challenge! – Middle School STEAM activity
Here is a great STEAM project for middle school students - Using old 3D printing rafts as a creativity challenge!
The drawings
I used electrical wi…
Apply for a Makerspace Grant | ‘Puzzle Shift Create 2022 Materials Grant’
Status of this grant: Unavailable in the near-term future. Innovative Arts class is still being developed and the resources are in need of further refinement.…
Custom Shaped Glowbox! – Easy STEM Project for Middle School
This is one of many great STEM Projects for middle school that I have developed. Check out the other ones on my channel!
In-depth conversations happe…
Mini-tutorial: Make a pencilbox in TinkerCAD
This pencilbox is a great practice in TinkerCAD! Useful links for teachers: This site holds the resources for Innovative Arts class, a class that replaced…
Make a lithopane and 3D print it!
Lithopanes are great ways to make a basic black-and-white picture on a 3D printed object! What is a lithopane How to make a lithopane Here…
Do the Inkart Challenge!
This is a challenge. Can you make a creative drawing from a random mess? Click here to share this in the designer group! Useful links for teachers:…
Using Easel/xCarve by Inventables
What could be made? Easel Tools Easel cut depth explained Advanced Easel Tools Using “simulate” starting an xcarve` Useful links for teachers: This site holds…
Custom motorized project for middle school students
This project is a great way to have your students make a complex project that is 3D, motorized, and totally customizable!
See the links below for …
Learn to code with Scratch – All lessons
Scratch is such a powerful learning tool! Kids can learn how to code in minutes and make impressive things after just a few class periods!…
Engineering a popsicle stick catapult | Middle school project
Making a popsicle stick catapult is a great beginner engineer project. Warm up your hot glue gun!
‘How you do anything is how you do everything’
On the first day of school, making nametags is just another starting activity. This year, I thought it would be interesting to connect the idea that '…
Innovative Arts: Making the class that I want for my own kids
Innovative arts was born from my frustration as a science teacher. I was frustrated because the amount of content I had to teach each year…
Actually Teaching Growth Mindsets: 5 Dos and Don’ts
Growth mindsets are the superfad from five years ago. At this point, most teachers have have tried and probably gotten tired and frustrated like I…
Ep12 Trello as a Classroom Portfolio Tool
I have been trying to help my students create portfolios ever since I started teaching. Every attempt was a failure. Failure #1) Paper Portfolios A…
Introducing Innovative Arts! Kids are creators instead of consumers!
I am so excited to be developing Innovative Arts as a new course in our middle school. This is the second year for the course…
Mission: Each kid can become a creator of their own type
Teachers are always trying to get kids to buy in, engage, participate, and internalize the lesson of the day. The struggle never ends. The content…
The limits we put on ourselves
What we think is a ’10/10 effort’ … isn’t. It sounds cliche but most of our students limitations are put there by the student his/herself…
Self-Discipline, Typing, and Middle School
Typing as a mindset lesson Innovative Arts took over for the old middle school technology class. The part of that class was keyboarding. Students spent…