I mulled over what our makerspace rules should be for a while. I didn't want to have a lot of rules. I didn't want to have a lot of do not's or no's. But as any educator knows, you need some rules or expectations to have things work. From all of the blog posts I've read and conversations I've had, it sounded like clean up was one of the most important rules to establish early on. Someone (Can't remember who, I'm sorry!) mentioned needing to keep students from undoing or damaging the work of others, which gave me my second rule. Then I wanted to make sure students weren't being wasteful and were using resources well, thus 3 and 4 were born. And then I believe that rules 5 and 6 about collaboration and attitude are something all makerspaces should be trying to encourage.
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