STEM Maker Lesson Plan

 

• Identify the benefits of incorporating maker education into your future classroom.

The benefits of incorporating maker education into your future classroom which encourages students to "try things themselves, share ideas, ask questions and make mistakes." This is beneficial to my future classroom because students will be able to participate in their education rather than just writing down what they are doing and not feeling involved and asking questions about what they are learning. 

• Describe the maker-inspired lesson you have designed, including the learning objectives, materials needed, and step-by-step activities.

The lesson that I have designed is one that is meant to allow students to show their creative sides but also figure out how to disassemble and reassemble an item. Being able to remake something after they have taken something apart and doing the reverse of what they have already done allows students to show that they can redo something no matter how they take it apart just by doing. The learning objective is to be able to show your creative side and to be able to disassemble and reassemble an item. 

The materials that will be needed for this maker-inspired lesson will be a fidget spinner for each student, screwdrivers to take apart the fidget spinner, paint, paint brushes, and paper plates. These materials will be shared besides the fidget spinners so each student will come out of the lesson with a new fidget spinner and experience assembling something. 

The first step will be to describe the lesson and the importance of disassembling and reassembling something. The next step will be to have the students take apart their fidget spinners and lay them out, so they can paint each part. The next step will be to have the students customize their fidget spinners to their liking. After they are finished with this and their paint has dried, they will then reassemble their fidget spinner and have a finished one-of-a-kind fidget spinner to take home with them. 

• Explain how this lesson will engage students and support their development of critical skills.

This lesson will engage students by allowing them to show their creative side which is something that people should be able to show they can do. It will support their development of critical skills by being able to show that they are able to reverse engineer an item that they have taken apart until it is back to how it was. 

• Discuss any challenges you anticipate in implementing maker education and how you might address them.
  

Some challenges that I anticipate would be students not being able to reassemble their fidget spinners to how they were before. I would address this by having them ask another student how they got theirs back together or talk to them about how they attempted to reassemble it and then see how they may be able to fix it so they can make it function again.