by og | Nov 17, 2015 | Mater Christi Makerspace
Students in the Elementary Code Club are introduced to concepts of coding using free iPad apps. Students in kindergarten through grade 3 meet every Thursday after school in the Makerspace. On November 12, 14 students attended the first meeting which included 6 girls...
by og | Oct 15, 2015 | Mater Christi Makerspace
We have a Harmonograph, built by the McCabe Family, on loan in the Makerspace. A Harmonograph is a machine that displays images of overtone and simple-ratio harmonic resonance on paper. In other words, it draws musical harmonies like a Spirograph using swinging...
by og | Sep 29, 2015 | Mater Christi Makerspace
Students in grades K-3 were introduced to the Makerspace this year with an activity called the Inspiration Icosahedron. One of four important rules in the Makerspace is to always wear our thinking cap. But sometimes our thinking cap isn’t enough to get us thinking...
by og | Sep 28, 2015 | Mater Christi Makerspace
In the Mater Christi Makerspace, second grade students learned about the fragility and extinction of species by participating in the Fold the Flock Passenger Pigeon Origami project. After folding their pigeons, they turned them into e-origami finger puppets with red...
by og | Sep 22, 2015 | Teacher Talk, Mater Christi Makerspace
Mrs. Rogers Kindergarten students adopted trees on the school campus to watch how the trees change over the course of the school year. They collected leaves and seeds to look at with magnifying glasses, and to do rubbings to add to their books about their tree. It...
by og | Aug 31, 2015 | Mater Christi Makerspace
At the very end of the 2015-2016 academic year Madame Giron’s 5th grade French classes made claymation videos to practice transportation vocabulary. In the videos, a clay character (or two) travels to France on vacation and uses multiple modes of transport,...
