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Welcome to NWP Makes!

Welcome to the NWP Makes! community on NWP Connect. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in the conversation about making by posting and sharing - What do you make and why? Who or what inspires you? What have you learned along the way? Can you share what you made so that we can make it too?

We look forward to hearing and learning from you!

We hope this space will be a place for all kinds of makers, tinkerers and creators of all kinds (yes, this includes writing too!!!) to share their projects, to think together about making in the classroom, and to write and learn about the connections in creation.

Imagine Making Makers: Kennett 8th Grade Makes

How do you get kids to tackle technical writing? It’s easy! (Okay. It takes some work, but it takes some play too.) Read my poster session notes for some tips on how to do just that.

What we did:

Step One: Start with an invitation to “invent” something or to interview a maker. Actually, you have to start even further back by having kids pull apart what makes a great essay by noticing what works well in lots of mentor texts a la Katie Wood Ray. 

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Writing, Making, Sharing, and Learning about Gardens: National Writing Project Makes! TTT 249 - 6.1.11

Do you garden with your students? Do they make things? And do they read and write about these experiences, and sometimes publish the results online?

On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, you’ll hear National Writing Project teachers from Colorado, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, and California describe the gardens and writing projects they are doing with their students.

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  • Caine's Arcade

    Added by Kate Leuschke Blinn on Apr 11, 2012 at 9:39am
    Remember when you had a small business in your front yard as a kid? Stop whatever you're doing and watch this video. It's worth it. http://connect.n... read more

  • The Toaster Project

    Added by Paul Oh on Dec 21, 2011 at 10:21am
    I just heard about the Toaster Project on NPR and thought it was an interesting example of a person following his interest in making and applying tha... read more

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Travis Powell: What does passionate inquiry look like at a charter school in rural Oregon? TTT 231 - 1.12.11

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Writing, Making, Sharing, and Learning about Gardens: National Writing Project Makes! TTT 249 - 6.1.11

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