 Bemidji's Northern Elementary School has created a new area designed specifically for creating. Reporter Cheryl Moore shows us their Makerspace classroom in this week's Golden Apple. If you take a look inside Northern Elementary School's new Makerspace classroom, you'll find everything from building blocks and gears to rulers and toothpicks. The Makerspace classroom is designed to be a flexible and adaptive learning environment where students can create. This classroom has been an awesome addition to our school. We get to bring our kids down and there is a shelf full of materials that we can use and we also have like the everyday materials, the paper, the glue, paper towel tubes, cotton balls, q-tips, kind of you name it. The kids are allowed to take risks and try new things in the Makerspace classroom. In this lesson, second graders had to make a shelter that could withstand a windstorm. And in the end, their shelter was put to the test. It hold it well because the cardboard and we put a bunch of tape on there so it works. I put holes in it so like when she used her bow dryer, the wind would go through the holes. What you see today is only the beginning of the Makerspace classroom. Over the next year, the space will evolve into a complete space where kids can be creative and make whatever they want. It really allows us to let our children be creative and use their imagination and just kind of create things that we normally don't do in the classroom. And we can also tie it to stories that we're working on or something from our science or social studies curriculum. The kids are learning through play and in a lot of the lesson plans, they're also learning to work together. What did you learn today most of the time? That groups are supposed to be fun. Having a designated area just for making things has been a hit not only with the teachers but with the students as well. Some say their favorite part is just sitting down and starting to build. Just working or just making stuff. Reporting in Bemidji with this week's Golden Apple, Shromor, Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.