STEAMed Magazine July 2016 | Page 33

  DESIGN FOR HOW PEOPLE LEARN In Design For How People Learn, you’ll discover how to use the key principles behind learning, memory, and attention to create materials that enable your students to both gain and retain the knowledge and skills you’re sharing.   WORLDS OF MAKING Interested in creating a makerspace in your school? This handy book provides some great ideas and considerations to think about before you leap in. Plus, it’s very reasonably priced at just under $12.  Includes lots of practical information like: • How to create an action plan for your own personalized Makerspace • Align activities to standards • Showcase student creations THE GENIUS HOUR GUIDEBOOK If you’ve been interested in the idea of using a Genius Hour in your classroom or school, but aren’t sure of how to set it up so that it’s successful and maximizes your time, this is a terrific book to grab. Very practical, with instantly applicable ideas to put into action in your own classroom. Available in both paperback and Kindle versions.   UNLEASH YOUR INNER CREATIVITY If you don’t think of yourself as “creative”, then you’re thinking about it all wrong.  This powerful book helps us all to connect with what it means to be creative and how to connect with our own unique brand of artistry. Even trained artists can have trouble with creativity!  This book helps to break down the science a nd the art of “stealing back your creative genius”. Excited to add this one to my summer reading list! 33