FutureMakers

• Category:
  

  • Visual

  Type of Programs Offered

  • residency
  • virtual
• • Drawing Machines!

    Description:
    

    In the one-session design challenge, Drawing Machines!, young makers invent wiggling electrical creatures that draw fantastic geometric patterns. You and your students use engineering and design thinking to make a creature stand, its motor spin, and LED’s glow. Each student creates a working, take-home drawing machine.

    Grade Levels: 1-8

    Curriculum Connections
    

    21ST CENTURY SKILLS
    ENGINEERING
    STEM

    This program can be completed virtually:
    Yes

  • It’s Alive! Kinetic Creature Lab

    Description:
    

    Who says sculpture can’t dance or draw? In the technology residency, It’s Alive! Kinetic Creature Lab, your young makers invent kinetic electromechanical creatures with distinct personalities! Students draw “coded” character sketches, decode the work of their peers, and develop their designs into 3-D creatures by “sketching with stuff.” Finally, they bring them to life with motors, LED lights, and electrical circuits. Elementary students explore color, line, shape, form and kinetic elements, and assign personal meaning to their design choices. Participants in grades 6 and above create coded creatures with increasingly more complex circuits and unique kinetic elements that allow them to draw. All creatures go home after a culminating creature dance party!

    Grade Levels: 1-8

    Curriculum Connections
    

    21ST CENTURY SKILLS
    ENGINEERING
    STEM

    This program can be completed virtually:
    Yes

• Name or Art Agency:
  Young Audiences / Arts for Learning of Maryland
  Email:
  info@yamd.org
  Phone:
  410-837-7577 ext. 116
  Address:
  2600 North Howard Street, Suite 1300 Baltimore, Maryland 21218

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