Documentation

Beyond Rubrics Toolkit

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Guide
Category 
Assessment

While there are many benefits of making and makerspaces, one of the greatest challenges of implementing making in K–...

Planting Your Own Garden

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Project Guides
Category 
Learning

Building a planter box is a simple way to start gardening. This lesson will help students build their own planter...

Making in Action: Observation Tools

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Templates
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Assessment

This set of three observation tools supports learners and educators to identify and assess the moves and indicators...

Stages of Development for Maker Educators

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Guide
Category 
Program Design,
Assessment

This rubric is designed for educators to identify where they are within stages of development along four categories...

Documentation Prompt Jar

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Templates
Category 
Assessment

This collection of adaptable documentation prompts supports learners to capture their work, process, and experience...

Looking at Student Work: Suggested Practices

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Guide
Category 
Assessment

These suggested practices for looking at Maker-Centered Learning integrate a collaborative documentation practice...

Assessing Learning in Maker Education

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Stories & Examples
Category 
Assessment

This article takes a look at how maker education is assessed—and how assessment is evolving to measure more than...

Practical Guide to Open Portfolios

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Guide
Category 
Assessment

This guide distills some of the best practices for documentation and portfolio creation as a means of assessment in...

Equity Focused

A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction

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Guide
Category 
Learning,
Assessment

A toolkit offers an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in...

Project Zero's Thinking Routine Toolbox

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Website/Database
Category 
Assessment

A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking...

The Framework for Maker-Centered Learning

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Guide
Category 
Assessment

This framework describes three interrelated capacities that help learners develop a sensitivity to design and a set...

Portfolio Journey Map

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Guide
Category 
Assessment

What’s involved in creating an open portfolio? This overview helps to situate all the pieces to consider, whether it...