Windsor Secondary Learning Commons: MakerSpace

You will want to bookmark this amazing resource and visit it often! The Exploratorium isn't just a museum; it's an ongoing exploration of science, art, and human perception. Explore its vast collection of online experiences, activities and education resources supporting online teaching and learning.

Howtoons are instructional comics that teach kids how to build projects and toys using everyday household goods.

These free arts integration lessons are a perfect way for you to get started with arts integration and STEAM, or to enhance a program you already have in place. Available for Grades K-12.

Instructables is a community for people who like to make things. Explore, share, and make your next project with this great resource

Maker Mondays is a regular feature on this site that offers clever making ideas. HINT: click on the Maker Monday tag at the bottom of the page for MORE Great Projects!

Science-making activities you can do with stuff in the kitchen

The Maker Studio is a museum makerspace that offers a number of cool making projects through Instructables

Art and Science Making activities AND challenges - includes a monthly guide for art, maker, and science inspiration (free for a limited time)

Hungry for fresh, exciting science activities based in amazing phenomena? Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested, and use cheap, available materials.

NASA Stem@Home Includes building and making projects along with other activities for K-12 students

Science World has hundreds of free resources that can easily be done at home, using common household materials.

The California Science Center offers science learning with easy to follow activities. This resource is designed for families to explore, investigate and have fun learning together without leaving home. All activities use household supplies, and are appropriate for a variety of ages.

Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.

The National Music Centre offers video examples and ideas for creating pegboard instruments

This is a step by step guide to making musical instruments

Dive into the recycling box to celebrate Earth Day. CBC Parents offers projects that use up shoeboxes, egg cartons, styrofoam, toilet-paper rolls, cardboard and more!

"We Are Teachers" invites you to "Save the earth:make art" and try one of these eco-savvy Earth Day crafts that is sure to excite kids of all ages.

Earth Day is our annual reminder to slow down and appreciate the bounty of the earth.
These 50 Earth Day Activities for kids will encourage children to create objects from natural and recycled materials and spend more time outdoors.

This collection is a 10 week Tinkering series offered to first grade students. Using everyday materials in open-ended projects, transform the ordinary to the extraordinary while nurturing problem solving skills, building creative confidence, encouraging collaboration, and empowering students as agents of their own success.

This project is from TeachEngineering - a digital library of engineering curricula for K-12 educators to make applied science and math come alive through engineering design.

Science World's Educational Take-Apart Guide includes downloadable Gadgets & Contraptions Activities

Popular Mechanics article that explores "What it looks like when you tear down gadgets into every individual part"

A Project from The Tinkering Studio, with activity guide

This site offers: Blank Comic Book Pages, Special Activities, “Finish This Comic!” Comics, and Drawing/Writing Prompts.

A drawing lessons for kids site

Cardboard Automata are a playful way to explore simple mechanical elements such as cams, levers, and linkages, while creating a moving sculpture.

"We invite kids of all ages around the world to build something amazing out of cardboard, recycled materials and imagination".

The Spruce Crafts brings you paper mache recipes and project ideas

Cranky Contraptions are moving toys created with simple materials such as wooden blocks, wire, and foamies

A Marble Machine is a creative ball-run contraption, made from familiar materials, designed to send a rolling marble through tubes and funnels, across tracks and bumpers, and into a catch at the end.

Scribbling machines are motorized contraptions that move in unusual ways and leave a mark to trace their paths.

This guide introduces weaving using a basic wooden loom (that you build) and a plain weave - includes links to other weaving and loom creation projects

Wind tubes explore the effect that moving air has on objects, including constructions made from everyday materials. (Advanced)

This e-book documents a teacher-librarian’s firsthand experience of investigating, planning, developing and implementing an elementary school library makerspace.

The University of Calgary offers an excellent resource: All About Makerspaces and More!

A wealth of articles on Makerspaces (161 in total): everything from getting started, makerspace ideas and stories, to the benefits of making and these spaces.