Resources - Invent To Learn

Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom features hundreds of links to high-quality books, websites, projects, and other resources to help you create a makerspace in any school, no matter your budget.

In this section:

All Resources – sorted by type
Chapter by Chapter – resources as they appear in chapters of Invent To Learn

Invent To Learn Workshop Shopping List and Handouts
The Think-Make-Improve (TMI) Robot Poster
Book club study guide – run your own Invent to Learn study group. Study guides available for both first and second edition.
Getting started

All Resources by Topic

Click on the links below to find all the resources found in the book plus extras!

Making & Learning

Making & Learning – Essential reading and videos for understanding how making supports learning
Effective Teaching – Teaching and pedagogy that supports maker education
Maker Education – Guides, resources, communities, events, and organizations supporting making in K-12 education
Making in Libraries, Museums, & Community Centers
Fab Labs & FabLearn
Educator Websites – Sites and blogs by educators showcasing maker projects in schools, libraries, and community organizations
Videos Everyone Will Love – Fun and inspirational videos about making

Projects & Resources

Project Collections & Inspiration – Online project libraries and collections, tutorials, good starter projects, and project books
Books for Your Makerspace – A starter set of books every makerspace should have for makers and their families
Magazines
Clubs & Competitions
Makerspace & Hackerspace Directories
School and Makerspace Design – Space design for active, creative spaces, makerspaces, and storage ideas

Tools, Tech, Supplies, & Software

What to Buy & Where to Find It – Buyer’s guides, vendors, places to purchase supplies, and shopping lists
3D Printing & Fabrication – Project model collections, 3D printing, lasercutters, vinyl cutters, CNC machines, software, and outsourcing services
Physical Computing – Makey Makey, Arduino, micro:bit and other MDBs, and programming
Wearables & E-textiles
Raspberry Pi
Robotics & Robotics Kits
LEGO Engineering
Electronics – Resources for teaching electronics, electronics kits, and circuit design
Programming Languages – Logo, Scratch, other block-based languages, Python, Processing, Minecraft & programmable worlds, app and game makers
Biomaking
Inventors, Inventing, & Citizen Science
Creative Materials Old & New – Squishy Circuits, cardboard, creativity software, filmmaking, and photography
Copyright & Intellectual Property

Pedagogy, Support, & Research

Seymour Papert & Constructionism – Books and papers by Seymour Papert, resources on constructionism
Reggio Emilia Approach
Programming Education – Resources for teaching programming, organizations supporting programming and computer science education, amd research
Tinkering, Creativity, & Play
STEM & STEAM
Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
Research Snapshots – Selections from recent research supporting educational making, fabrication, robotics, programming, scaling maker education, PBL, pedagogies that support making, STEM, STEAM, design, and links to research groups

More about making, tinkering, and engineering

Professional Development & Curriculum – Professional development opportunities for making in education, curriculum (focusing on PBL and Engineering)
History, Future, & Maker Movement
Author Websites

Resources by Chapter

Chapter 16 is the resource chapter, so all the resources in that chapter are found in the “All Resources By Topic” section above, sorted by type.