Hands On - Identity Project at Hyde Park Elementary School

 

This year I had the honor of collaborating with Hyde Park Middle School Students and Staff  and the Vermont Arts Council for a week long Maker Residency focused on IDENTITY.  This experience helped me reflect on how a residency model can provide value for both teachers and students.   

 Join us at Dynamic Landscapes 2023  Google Slides  where we'll share what we learned. 

Be Inspired:

 Hyde Park School Maker Residency 

Create Confidence:

 SkillBuilder- Create Identity Artifact

  SVG file

Make Something Meaningful:

  Brainstorm Challenge PromptReflection: 

Session Description

Come Create, Make, and Learn with Lucie and leave empowered with your own fun IDENTITY artifact and a project based learning example of how to integrate making with language arts and social studies. This session is based on a recent fun maker residency with middle school students at Hyde Park School.


We will kick off the session with some highlights from the recent maker residency with students and teachers from Hyde Park School sponsored by the Vermont Arts Council.

We will then move into a hands-on Skill building Sprints designed to Create Confidence with new maker tools and processes used to create a personalized Identity Artifact.

The following slide deck includes the Skill building Sprint designed to create confidence with new maker tools and processes.  Through these skill building activities students and teaachers gained the basic skills  for using Google Slides, The Noun Project, and PicSVG.com to design an SVG file that can be used with laser cutters, digital cutters (i.e. Cricut), or even 3D printers to fabricate a personalized Identity Artifact.

 

Equipped with confidence using new tools and processes students and teachers were ready MAKE SOMETHING MEANINGFUL.    Students voice and choice were expanded with the confidence to use new tools and processes. Teachers  felt confident to  design instruction that include meaningful making. 

During our maker residency each student created a personal journal to  reflect on identity artifacts  they would create and collect throughout the year. 

If you would like to bring a Maker Residency to your school, 

contact Lucie at ldelabruere@gmail.com

Students are engaged in new learning experiences.  The experience inspires them to learn new skills. As they create confidence with new tools and processes, students are ready to take on meaningful making challenge.  

Teachers receive embedded professional development as they co-teach an experience that they helped to design.  The experience is a low risk way to create confidence with new tools and processes that model Project Based Learning pedagogy.   Teachers become inspired watching the engagement of their students during the residency. With newfound confidence in using new tools and processed, teachers are ready to design instruction that includes meaningful making projects.