Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Hands down, one of the coolest things about Contraption Maker is seeing what students make with the game. In the last two years, we’ve given away over 700 copies of the game, so kids have had a long time to be creative and come up with some cool contraptions. We asked teachers to send us […]
Educational advisor to Spotkin and all around awesome teacher Kris Schwengel has been involved in various Contraption Maker projects, from felt boards to foreign language. He pioneered using Contraption Maker as an ELA tool, and he had some fantastic results the first year he did this language arts lesson plan. This year he’s at it again, focusing on […]
Integrating Contraption Maker from 1st Grade to Foreign Language Study
January 5th, 2016 by Deborah Fike
We last heard from Kris Schwengel, one of our educational advisors, last summer as he was winding down his English Language Arts / machine-building lesson with his 4th Graders. In this update, Kris brings us up to speed on how he’s improving his original lesson, plus some other Contraption Maker projects in the works at […]
We’re always excited to hear from teachers who have used The Incredible Machine in their classroom for many years. Douglas Klier of The Willows Community School is one such teacher. He is also generous enough to let us share one of his tried and true lesson plans that you can use with Contraption Maker. He originally used […]