Cross-Topic Connections
📋 What it is
Making blends fields — the design process guides everything, electronics needs materials, and code brings fabrication to life.
🗣️ Coach says
Making is where fields meet. The design loop steers it all; electronics need the right materials; code makes your fabricated parts move. A maker borrows from science, art, math and engineering all at once. It’s all connected.
🧠 Memory hook
Making blends fields — design, science, art, math, engineering, together.
😂 Giggle
Why did the Arduino board go to school?
To get more programming experience!
😲 Whoa!
A single maker project can use math (measuring), science (circuits), art (design) and engineering (structure) all at the same time.
✅ Quick check: Give one example of how two maker skills (or subjects) depend on each other.
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
e.g. code brings a fabricated part to life; electronics need the right materials; the design process guides every other skill. (Any valid link.)
Seeing making as connected fields is higher-order thinking.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Pick two maker skills and say how one helps the other in a project.