Are you ready to integrate makerspace into your learning environment? Do you crave hands-on learning that engages your creativity and problem-solving skills? If so, it's time to join the makerspace movement.

Do you want to avoid your classroom or library feeling like a boring, stuffy old place where creativity goes to die?

Well, have no fear! The maker movement is here to save the day (and your sanity). But before you start stocking up on glitter, glue sticks, duct tape, and art equipment, you need to keep a few key ideas in mind when launching your collaborative space.

Are you a maker at heart? Do you believe innovation and creativity should be nurtured and encouraged in future generations? Do you want to foster a collaborative space and be integral to the maker movement? You should consider starting a makerspace in your classroom, media center, or homeschool classroom!

Student engagement is at the forefront of the maker movement and can be included in many different subject areas, but my favorite way to include Makerspace activities is by integrating literacy skills such as comprehension.

While starting a maker space in your classroom, school library, or homeschool area can be an overwhelming task, you can breathe a little more comfortable knowing that the maker mindset community encourages you to approach making in your own way with a focus on new things and new skills.

Makerspaces encourage creative thinking, taking risks, different ways of doing things, project-based learning, and learning from failure for young people.

Makerspaces don’t have to be in a Media Center or school library. School makerspaces are also great in a classroom, whether that is a traditional space or a homeschool classroom for young people. Since a Makerspace is merely a place to create, build, wonder, and discover, it can be just about ANYWHERE! That’s the good news. So in this week’s post, I want to show you five Fundamental Ways to Launching A Sensational Makerspace that focuses on creative thinking in different ways and the maker mindset.

Makerspace and the maker movement is a rapidly growing trend in schools across the country, and it is taking education by storm with new things and new skills.

Most Makerspaces can exist in the school library or in spaces designed for school makerspaces. However, I don’t feel it should be limited to these areas in a school. Although I think maker space is awesome in the Media Center, but why not have one in every classroom?