Paper Circuits STEAM Educator’s Guide
Our Educator’s Guide is a comprehensive guide to STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art and Math) learning with paper circuits!
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This 185-page guide includes:
- Overview and history of paper circuits, including materials, techniques and troubleshooting tips
- Suggested learning standards
- Resources on equitable teaching and collaboration in the classroom
- 7 detailed lesson sequences based on the Circuit Sticker Sketchbook in Part 1 Lessons
- 12 detailed lesson sequences based on Love to Code in Part 2 Lessons
- 6 Featured Projects: cross-curricular adaptable project inspirations
- Printable templates for each lesson sequence
Throughout the guide we celebrate artists, educators, art techniques and projects to showcase inspiring work in action. The arts are interwoven into each activity; STEM becomes a medium to ask and explore big questions about ourselves and the world, and nurture new forms of creativity!
Many Thanks!
This guide is the product of years of creativity, experimentation, and hard work from so many!
- Authors: Natalie Freed and Jie Qi
- Illustrator: K-Fai Steele
- Editors: Susan Brown and Jill Dawson
- Graphic and Cover Design: Emma Freed
We would like to give special thanks to the inspiring educators, artists, scholars, and Makers whose work and students’ work are featured or cited in the guide (in the order that they first appear):
- Molly Adams
- Joy Schultz
- RJ Webber
- Mitch Resnick
- Jane Bennett
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Eleanor Duckworth
- Tia Madkins and Nicol Howard
- Shirin Vossoughi, Paula K. Hooper, and Meg Escudé
- Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove
- Leah Buechley
- Andrew “bunnie” Huang
- Asli Demir
- Tiffany Au
- Eiko Uchida
- JooYeong Lee
- Maya Isaksson
- Shoshanna Cohen
- Holly “Manzie” Manswell
- Darshell Silva
- Holly Pierce
- Evonne Hackett
- Esther Gilbert
- David Cole, Jennifer Dick, and Nexmap
- Shiela Lee
- Hannah Grimm
- Benjamin Mako Hill
- Hannah Perner-Wilson
- Joanne Cohoon and William Aspray
- Victor Lee and Mimi Recker
- Jane Margolis
- Paul Oh
- Patricia Ng and Sean Cross
- Joseph Paradiso
- Taia Saurer
- Kevin Hodgson
- Neta Bomani
- Fay Shaw
- Stephanie Lee
- Alexa
- Becca Rose
- Jill Dawson
- North Star of Texas Writing Project
- Heliox Lab
- Michele Guieu
- Fum Fum Ko
- Pablo Neruda
- Beatrice Coron
- Well and Often Press
- Kara Walker
- Erin Riley
- Mary Uthuppuru
- Barbara Liedahl
- Ryan Jenkins, Nicole Catrett, and Wonderful Idea Co
- Colette Fu
- Susan Lowdermilk
- Wei Wei Wang
- Aurora Robson
- Michael Shannon
- Colleen Graves and Makey Makey
- Studio Mcguire
- STOMP
- Corinne Okada Takara
- Simon Heijdens
- Code at TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
- Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec and Dear Data
- Mrs. Bisson
- Lance Newman
- Taylor Peterson
- Joanna Tankel
- Jacquelyn Nickey
- Providence Public Library
- Kathy Tran
- CS Unplugged
- MATHmaniaCS
And finally a thank you to all our Educator Ambassadors, reviewers, collaborators and readers like you for sharing in the joy of paper circuits with us! ❤