Your Name and Title: Online Faculty – Teacher Education
School or Organization Name: Boise State, Western Governors’, Walden Universities
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): Educators and Curriculum Specialists in School and After-School Programs
Short Session Description (one line): An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
Learn about the From Puppets to Robots curriculum that was implemented with gifted elementary students in a public school setting and at a local Maker Space at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum. This unit begins with students exploring the history of puppetry through researching and constructing shadow puppets and marionettes. A focus of this unit is on exploring human movements and how they can be incorporated into making the puppets. Later lessons build on student knowledge of human movement, puppetry construction to explore and build robots to create a positive impact on humankind.
The general goals of this unit are:
By the end of this unit, students will have gained knowledge and skills related to:
Through the implementation of this curriculum, several characteristics of maker education were observed.
These characteristics will also be discussed as part of this presentation.
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: http://puppets2robots.wikispaces.com/home
Here is a link to my presentation materials - http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/steam-and-ma...