Customizable Maker Maven Training Sessions
At Maker Maven, we offer engaging and customizable training sessions that can be delivered virtually or in person, depending on your needs. Our standard training durations are 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 1 day, or 2 days. Customization is available to ensure we meet the specific goals of your educators and students.
Our Available Training Offerings
Custom Training: Tailored STEM Integration for Your Needs
Maker Maven offers custom training sessions designed to meet the unique needs of your school or district. Whether integrating curriculum, exploring product use, or focusing on specific themes, we tailor our sessions to your goals. For example, in a previous session, we helped educators use STEM products to teach Jewish holidays in PK3-3rd grade classrooms. This session focused on cross-curricular integration with STEM and computer science. Custom training is flexible and adaptable to support various educational settings and objectives.
Making Standards Easy: Enhancing Education Through STEM Integration
This training helps educators and administrators understand Industry 4.0 and Education 4.0. It covers how to integrate technology and STEM effectively across the curriculum to prepare students for future careers, fostering creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking with minimal teacher effort.
Watch It Wiggle and Light Up Your STEAM Instruction!
In this session, educators will explore quick, easy, and engaging STEAM activities. Learn how to create things such as light-up name tags, solar-powered bugs, and engineered scribble bots to inspire creativity and exploration with minimal coding.
Harnessing Assistive Technology for Inclusive Education
This training explores the power of assistive technology (AT) in creating inclusive and equitable learning environments. Educators will learn how to use AT tools across various subjects, including math, coding, and social-emotional learning (SEL) support, with examples like coding tools for blind students. Participants will discover strategies for integrating these innovative technologies to support students of all abilities, fostering a diverse and inclusive classroom.
Make Math Matter in K-5!
Empower your students to think creatively and solve complex math problems by integrating coding and digital manipulatives into K-5 math lessons. This session highlights ways to modernize math instruction while reducing prep time for teachers.
Bots with Heart: Using Robots to Build Affective Skills
Discover how robotics can help students develop social-emotional skills like self-awareness, self-management, and relationship building. This hands-on session teaches educators to integrate robots into lessons that foster emotional intelligence in students from K-5.
Low Tech Sustainable STEM
Learn how to effortlessly integrate low-tech, sustainable STEM activities into your classroom. We will explore simple, engaging projects that promote creativity and innovation while emphasizing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Learn how to use everyday materials to inspire students through projects like solar-powered creations and sustainable engineering challenges.
Tech-Transformed Teaching: Drones, Rovers, and Tomorrow's Skills
Explore how drones and rovers can transform STEM learning in your classroom. This in-person only session highlights immersive technology experiences that equip students with critical 21st-century skills. (This is an in-person only training)
Demystifying AI: Simple Strategies, Tools, and Lessons to Teach AI Without Fear
No prior AI knowledge is required! This session takes the fear out of teaching AI by showing educators how to integrate AI concepts into the curriculum using simple tools and lesson plans that engage students in real-world AI applications.
Grow, Create, Innovate: The STEM-Powered Art Program
This training for PreK-5th grade educators combines STEM and art to foster creativity and critical thinking. Aligned with CCSS, NGSS, and ISTE standards, the program includes hands-on activities like DNA modeling and Automata building to promote interdisciplinary learning.
Code to the Core: Computational Thinking for Future Careers
This training, based on the No Fear Coding framework, is ideal for grades 3-8 educators. It teaches coding, algorithms, and data analysis through hands-on tools like Piper Pulse Sensors and CoDrone EDU, connecting classroom learning to real-world STEM careers.
Code, Create, & Connect: Building Computational Thinking in Young Learners
Designed for PreK-3rd grade educators, this session introduces foundational computational thinking through hands-on activities with Cubelets and BlueBots. It provides strategies for engaging young students in problem-solving, coding, and algorithm design, aligned with CCSS, ISTE, and CSTA standards.
