Abstract

The Make to Learn coalition was established to identify effective pedagogical approaches for employing makerspaces for educational innovation in schools. The Make to Learn coalition is anchored by the Make to Learn Laboratory in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and the Laboratory School for Advanced Manufacturing in the Charlottesville City Schools, working in collaboration with the Joseph Henry project at Princeton University, advanced manufacturing programs at Midlands Technical College, and the Smithsonian Institution. This paper describes a key consortium initiative, American Innovations in an Age of Discovery. Participating students use school makerspaces to reconstruct working models of transformational inventions. The reconstruction process is grounded in a method employed by historic inventors, invention through emulation. The benefits of this approach, updated to take advantage of modern technologies, are discussed in the context of maker education.

Highlights

  • Much of the current school curriculum in the United States is based on a model established by the National Education Association’s Committee of Ten at the end of the nineteenth century

  • Integrated STEM learning focuses on theoretical knowledge but on “what you can do with what you know” in real-world contexts (U.S Department of Education, 2015) This emphasis has been reflected in the Generation Science Standards (NGSS, 2013), which established cross-cutting concepts across multiple domains of science and engineering

  • Based on experience with implementation of Make to Learn Invention Kits, we identified the following criteria for developing reference designs: 1. Designs should be straightforward to fabricate and assemble

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Introduction

Much of the current school curriculum in the United States is based on a model established by the National Education Association’s Committee of Ten at the end of the nineteenth century. Make to learn invention kits Among other accomplishments, Joseph Henry was the foremost American scientist in the area of electricity and magnetism in the nineteenth century He developed an electric motor that was the precursor of the first patented electrical device in the United States, the Davenport rotary motor (U.S Patent No 132, 1837). A series of related tools and instruments have been developed to support the Invention Kits, including a Solenoid Winder Kit, a Magnetic Pole Detection Invention Kit, and a Mechanical Waveform Generator Invention Kit. A key goal of Make to Learn historic reconstruction Invention Kits is to present a unified view of these systems and the way in which they provided the foundation for today’s modern systems.

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