Ms. LaGrange, our exceptionally talented art teacher, once agin designed the carts and all of their unique embellishments, and Mr. Jay, the husband of our health room assistant, built them over the summer. They are gorgeous!
Our goal was to make them as "ready-to-go" as possible, so that teachers could check them out, wheel them in, and be ready to go, so they have fold out tabletop space built in.
We created four themed carts:
The Creativity Cart - filled with all sorts of building, creating, and crafting materials like burlap, sewing materials, yarn, wood, weaving looms, and glue guns.
The Science Cart - filled with simple machine kits, digital microscopes, Marble Run kits, and tools like funnels, pipettes, hand lenses, tweezers, and petri dishes.
The Engineering Cart - containing Legos and K'nex.
The Technology Cart - including 3Doodlers, Osmos, GoPro Cameras, iPads, and Chromebooks.
We're still waiting on some of the equipment to arrive, but I can't wait till they're out around the school and helping teachers integrate the Maker Mindset into their classrooms!
