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Teaching TAS1/2O

Building Future Innovators: Creating Makerspaces to Transform STEM Education

My presentation will explore how to design and implement makerspaces in schools to transform STEM education by fostering hands-on learning, creativity, coding skills, and innovation. Attendees will learn practical strategies for setting up makerspaces, integrating them into the curriculum, and utilizing tools like robotics kits, 3D printing, and coding platforms to create engaging, real-world learning experiences. The session will also highlight how makerspaces can bridge knowledge gaps, enhance collaboration, and prepare students for future careers in technology and innovation-driven fields.

A Digital approach to TAS1O -Coding, Electronics, Robotics, and Design

In this session we will explore various projects that have been implemented in 2024/25 school year at a school without Technological Studies classrooms. The projects have been focused on coding, electronics, robotics, and design. Each of these projects are aligned with the Engineering Design Process as provided in the new TAS1O/2O curriculum.

Teaching TAS in a school with no tech department

This session with present a version of the TAS course that can be taught at a school with no tech department and cover possible variations of the course in terms of topics, assignments and costs involved. Materials and assignments will be shared as well.

An electronics unit for TAS1O or TAS2O

This session will give you all the necessary resources needed for teaching basic electronics to students in either grade 9 or grade 10. We will quickly go over the unit on electronics (look at the resources and how they are laid out). I will then demonstrate how to use TinkerCad (a free online electronics workbench that runs on a web browser) and to give you a resource that you can share with your students so they can learn how to use TinkerCad. Finally, we will then take what we have learned and apply it to the TAS curriculum. 3 Final TAS Curriculum related assessments will be shared that are related to the unit.