Quite by accident, I started last school year with the Cardboard Challenge. As part of our introduction to Genius Hour, we watched Caine's Arcade. After viewing it, one of my fourth grade students mentioned that she thought that we should build our own cardboard arcade games. After a bit of panic and doubt about such a big (wild and crazy) event, my parapro and I decided we could do it. So we started gathering boxes, sending notes home about what was happening, and asking for donations. We got started, failed along the way, and ultimately succeeded in our efforts to plan, design, and create our games. This year, with our new MakerSpace in place, I knew that I wanted to start off the year again with a big event! Plus, each grade level would need an introduction to the space and would need to learn what possibilities it held. I decided that each grade level would begin the year with a maker project that would require them to use supplies from our space, wor...
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