Easily accessible, and inspirational for all ages
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Community Review for Instructables
My Take
Instructables was a great resource for our tech club. Students were inspired to take on projects when they saw them broken down into steps. Students also appreciated the amount of projects done by younger students including the boy that made an aluminum forge.
How I Use It
Our Tech Club uses it as inspiration for student projects. I use it to show them how possible these projects are when looked at as a series of steps instead one overwhelming idea.
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Alisha M.
Huntington High School
Huntington, WV
June 1, 2015
This website has endless instructions to do anything you could possibly think of. I like how it breaks it down so that you can search different categories.
I think this is a teaching tool that you could add to things that you already have. I liked that you can research by different categories instead of it all being thrown together.
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Denis K.
District 75 Special Education Science Instructional Coach
New York, NY
June 17, 2014
The "IT" of Do-It-Yourself websites
This is a good teaching tool as it provides a way to make (sometimes) advanced objects out of (sometimes) common materials. These can be used inside and outside the classroom. Definitely the go-to place for instructions on classroom models that might be too expensive to purchase for the school budget.
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Mona E.
Huntington High School
Huntington, WV
June 13, 2014
The website is a great resource for design and 3d printing ideas.
I liked all the different design ideas that can be found on the site. I have noticed ads for items not appropriate for students such as Mike's Hard drinks. Also, some of the design ideas are not for students but a teacher can use the site for their own research and only use the designs they feel are appropriate for students.
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