{"data":{"ID":1363,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1731346877,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Meaningful Making With Middle Schoolers (Year 3)","Handle":"meaningful_making_with_middle_schoolers-year_3","ShortDescription":"In Year 3 of our hands-on program to engage and educate middle school makers:  What best practices in STEM, STEAM, Makerspaces, Engineering, and more can be used to create an engaging and educational experience?  What outcomes do we value when creating these programs? What did we learn from the past?","Description":"Making in middle schools can be both exhilarating and frustrating in equal measures.  Planning hands-on projects for our students is a lot of fun, and also a lot of work.  From the initial planning, to creating materials and activities, scaffolding lessons, managing projects, and designing assessments, a lot of work goes into a successful project.  Join a middle school Pre-Engineering teacher and Makerspace teacher for a discussion around best practices, planning, management, and projects for a broad spectrum of maker programs.  We\u2019ll dive into conversations around topics such as structuring a multi-year program, developing project ideas, managing creative spaces, creating capstone projects, and what we changed from the last two years.  Come prepared to share your experiences, both what has worked and what hasn\u2019t, as well as future goals and \u2018pie in the sky\u2019 ideas.  Don\u2019t have a standalone maker class?  No problem!  We\u2019ll also discuss ways to integrate these types of projects into more traditional classrooms.","Link":["https:\/\/slams.philasd.org\/"],"Audience":["Middle School"],"Practice":"Presenters will facilitate conversation both within the whole group and smaller breakout groups.  Ideas and suggestions will be compiled in a shared Google Doc.","Presenter":["Michael Franklin","Meredith Martin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA Middle School"],"PresenterEmail":["msfranklin@philasd.org","mbmartin@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":26,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"We work at SLAMS. I would really love to attend John Kamal's final year of educon for his session on engineering.  Please don't schedule us at the same time if possible.  Thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12}}