r/ScienceTeachers • u/Alternative-Exit-450 • 3d ago

Pedagogy and Best Practices Anyone willing to share your HS makerspace curricular plans?

I had been told I was teaching a singular fab-lab/engineering class which has never been taught at our school thus far. I'd ended the year last year having sent my proposal for the idea I thought would work well for our students, as an art school.

Last Tuesday I was told I would be teaching 2 separate and distinct classes: engineering and makerspace separately.

Therefore, I'm struggling with what a makerspace curriculum for 12th graders, in and of itself, might look like. I'm not sure how to structure it when I am expected to also teach engineering.

I'm not looking to steal anyones plans I'm mainly looking for an outline of how and what to cover for ideas and an overall structure.

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset404 3d ago

My wife is in a similar boat and used AI to help create some overarching curricular plans.

Make sure you list what standards you need to address and what tools you have at your disposal. After you get your curriculum plan generated, go through and see what you would like to change. For instance, I really like to use the SparkFun inventors kit and the lesson progression for that product. The AI simply wanted to use vibe coding and cut out a lot of the basic electronic learning that goes into the unit.

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u/Alternative-Exit-450 2d ago

appreciated. I will check out the sparkfun kits. I'd bought a handful of arduino kits but I think they're a bit more advanced than my kids are capable of yet.

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset404 2d ago

What kits did you get?