Dear all soon to be winter break freedom lovers!

Welcome to day 22. I feel so blessed to introduce another amazing person whose passion for education is hard to beat. I feel so blessed to share a resource that more educators need to be aware of(yes, I plan on hosting some workshops centered on this site for educators in Iowa). And more importantly, I am blessed to call this person a friend.

Todd Beard has created a new proejct on the HackingSTEM website for us to all use. If you have not used this website before, then it is one to bookmark and explore. It provides all types of projects linked to standards, lesson plans, student guides, videos, all the software downloads, and spreadsheets on what to buy based on student numbers. And it is all FREE!

It truly is one of the places I head to for inspiration and hope to emulate with the work I do. This project costs about $3 a kid to make, but I am sure you have many of these parts already in your classroom so it might not be so costly.

Create

The project today is going to teach your students all about circuits. There are countless ways to do this, but this project provides another method to help students learn about circuits and how they operate. From there they will begin to create their own circuits with an end goal of creating party lights.

Be clever in how you use the lights. Can they be part of a literacy project? Can they be part of a display for science? Think beyond the concept of coding lights for the sake of coding lights. Could these be part of a new project combined with Day 5 and the Light Up Literature?

While today is a day of survival for all, this might be the project to reignite learning after break!

We hope you enjoy the 22nd day of making project.

Share

Add your project or any other projects you are working on through these options to share how you approached today’s challenge or the one from yesterday. Then, check out and comment on some other examples when they are shared.

Besides using the hashtag #25daysofmaking on Instagram and Twitter I am also posting the projects over on Facebook so you can interact on this platform as well.

Finally, don’t forget to head over to Flipgrid and introduce yourself and/or your students!

Reflect

This element is important! Don’t neglect reflection on your own learning. We must be lifelong learners and be models to our students.

Take a moment to reflect on your creative process by sharing with the hashtags and other mediums. Let us start a conversation about this concept. How did remixing help you? What questions do you still have about remixing?

Aaron “Coffeechug” Maurer

P.S. Did you miss the previous days? Check out the site and get caught up. It’s never too late to start!

P.P.S. Want to share that you’re participating? Here’s a #25daysofmaking digital sticker.