
South Nodaway kindergarten, first and second grade classes are in front of the makerspace project display they explored and developed.
South Nodaway faculty and administration are implementing Project-Based Learning (PBL) as a teaching tool for the first time during this school year.
PBL is a classroom approach in which students actively explore real-world problems and challenges. South Nodaway’s kindergarten, first and second grade classes worked together on a makerspace project. A makerspace is a collaborative work space for making, learning, exploring and sharing.
Second grade teacher Stacey Moutray, first grade teacher Shayne Talmadge and kindergarten teacher Heather Heerlein proposed the makerspace idea to their classes.
The first step in the process was to discover what a makerspace is. The students visited the…