Kids can name NASA’s next Mars Rover!
Wow – Disney and NASA have teamed up for a contest – K-12 kids can name the next Mars Rover. Grand prize is a trip to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to sign your name on the real rover!
Kids & Family
Elementary school music video makers
Students @ Bancroft Elementary School in Montreal, Quebec are making some awesome music videos as part of the Modern Music Makers after-school program students (five to ten years old) are divided into groups of four (give or take), and given the means to make their own songs from scratch. Explains Shaw: “Each group got a […]
DIY bike stand
Michael wanted a bike stand, but didn’t want to pay, and wanted to use it as a project to build his Computer Aided Design and fabrication skills. We had been using ProDesktop by PTC, to learn how to design mechanical parts. He was doing the tutorials along with his classmates. He worked out the idea […]
DIY speakers
Lucas and his dad enjoy making stuff. In this video Brad interviews the young Tinkerer about the spiffy new speakers they made and rigged up to their stereo. This was a great project – we followed the plans at https://makezine.com/12/diymusic_plate/ but didn’t have the right wire, magnets, or plates. Instead we used 30 ga wire […]
Star Knot tutorial
Stormdrane made this beautiful Star Knot by following this tutorial. Stormdrane’s own tutorial for making a Paracord bracelet can be found in the new Make book, The Best of Instructables, reviewed recently by Marc de Vinck and available in the Maker Shed.
Time Warp on Discovery
We’re really liking Discovery’s new show, Time Warp – it’s the perfect combination of science, woohoo! moments, and how things work. The hosts, Jeff Lieberman and Matt Kearney, both have an infectious sense of curiosity that make the show really fun to watch. Do you know how your dog uses its tongue to drink? In […]
Make throwies to learn Ohm’s Law
If you really want to understand electric circuit theory, eventually you will need to come to terms with Ohm’s Law. So how can you get the concept across that I=VR? Will your students be able to figure out that V=I/R or that R=V/I, or that all three of these equations are pretty much the same? […]