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## The Research and Teaching Companion
Once *Secrets of Craft and Nature* was completed, the Project turned to creating a suite of research and teaching resources aound the digital edition [*Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France*](https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/). The Research and Teaching Companion contains resources—and we hope inspiration—for teachers, researchers, and makers who wish to integrate hands-on and digital components into their classes, research projects, and art practice. Its resources are intended to be used flexibly, and we invite you to freely adapt from it and create your own resources to fit your particular needs.

Like *Secrets of Craft and Nature*, the Companion was created through courses, workshops, and collaborative projects, as detailed below. See also, [Credits](credits) and, on the Project's website, [Collaborations](https://www.makingandknowing.org/collaborators/).
Like *Secrets of Craft and Nature*, the Companion was created through courses, workshops, and collaborative projects, as detailed below. See also, [Credits](/credits/) and, on the Project's website, [Collaborations](https://www.makingandknowing.org/collaborators/).

### Graduate Lab Seminar
The graduate students in the course *Craft and Science: Making Objects in the Early Modern World*—taught 2014-18—conducted text-, object-, and laboratory-based research that resulted in the edition's approximately 130 [essays](https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays) which interpret, contextualize, and reconstruct the content of Ms. Fr. 640. The Companion contains [Making and Knowing Syllabi](syllabi) for each of the eight versions of Craft and Science, focused each year on a different theme: Moldmaking and Metalworking; Colormaking (including dyes, pigments, artificial gems, coloring woods and metals, and varnish making); Practical Knowledge (including vernacular natural history, practical perspective, optics, mechanics, and medicine); Ephemeral Art; and Printmaking, Inscription, and Impression. We hope these syllabi will be a source of inspiration and provide a practical guide to the complexities of integrating seminar discussion and critical analysis with hands-on work in the laboratory or studio.
The graduate students in the course *Craft and Science: Making Objects in the Early Modern World*—taught 2014-18—conducted text-, object-, and laboratory-based research that resulted in the edition's approximately 130 [essays](https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays) which interpret, contextualize, and reconstruct the content of Ms. Fr. 640. The Companion contains [Making and Knowing Syllabi](/syllabi/) for each of the eight versions of Craft and Science, focused each year on a different theme: Moldmaking and Metalworking; Colormaking (including dyes, pigments, artificial gems, coloring woods and metals, and varnish making); Practical Knowledge (including vernacular natural history, practical perspective, optics, mechanics, and medicine); Ephemeral Art; and Printmaking, Inscription, and Impression. We hope these syllabi will be a source of inspiration and provide a practical guide to the complexities of integrating seminar discussion and critical analysis with hands-on work in the laboratory or studio.

### Skill Building
In teaching these hands-on research seminars, we tried to balance about 8 weeks of hands-on skill building with 8 weeks of individual (or group) research and writing. During the weeks of skill building, we brought in for short periods "expert makers" (whose essays are also included in the edition, see [Tutor or Student?](https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_334_ie_19) and [In Pursuit of Magic](https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_501_ad_20)) whose practice focused around the year's theme. Their essays reflect upon some of the ways we all learned together during these skill building sessions. As for the student essays, we gradually developed a form of writing by which we could combine argument-driven historical writing with descriptions of reconstruction processes. Throughout the semester, and particularly when conducting their own experiments, students' hybrid [lab/field notes](https://fieldnotes.makingandknowing.org/) were essential, and much time and effort went into recording and formatting these notes. The resulting essays, then, encapsulate much of the learning and many of the dynamics of the work of combining hands-on with critical analysis, which we hope will be useful to others in creating their own courses and research projects. For more information on this course, see [Making the Edition of Ms. Fr. 640](https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_329_ie_19).

### Undergraduate Hands-On History
With the edition complete, we transitioned in 2021 to a new course, *Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europe: Hands-On History*, in which a mixed cohort of undergraduate and graduate students explore Secrets of Craft and Nature to create sample [Student projects](student-projects)—involving all kinds of research—that extends the content of the edition in creative and sometimes surprising ways. The duration of the course period for this class is only about 2 hours/week (in contrast to the 4 hours of _Craft and Science_). Time and scheduling present a serious challenge to integrating hands-on work in the classroom, and it was out of this need to streamline the hands-on work that our step-by-step [Lesson Plans for Hands-On](activity-sheets), emerged. As you can see in the [Making & Knowing Syllabi](/resources/syllabi), the hands-on sessions incorporate many of the skill building activities first formulated for _Craft and Science_. The Lesson Plans and associated teaching resources included in the Companion provide step-by-step guidance in planning, tools and ingredients, and the processes of the hands-on work. These Lesson Plans have been used by instructors from high school to graduate courses, and their experiences and advice can be found in [M&K Resources in Use](/resources/case-studies). Further reflections about teaching hands-on activities can be found in the Project's [Reflections on Hands-On](reflection).
With the edition complete, we transitioned in 2021 to a new course, *Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europe: Hands-On History*, in which a mixed cohort of undergraduate and graduate students explore Secrets of Craft and Nature to create sample [Student projects](/student-projects/)—involving all kinds of research—that extends the content of the edition in creative and sometimes surprising ways. The duration of the course period for this class is only about 2 hours/week (in contrast to the 4 hours of _Craft and Science_). Time and scheduling present a serious challenge to integrating hands-on work in the classroom, and it was out of this need to streamline the hands-on work that our step-by-step [Lesson Plans for Hands-On](/activity-sheets/), emerged. As you can see in the [Making & Knowing Syllabi](/resources/syllabi/), the hands-on sessions incorporate many of the skill building activities first formulated for _Craft and Science_. The Lesson Plans and associated teaching resources included in the Companion provide step-by-step guidance in planning, tools and ingredients, and the processes of the hands-on work. These Lesson Plans have been used by instructors from high school to graduate courses, and their experiences and advice can be found in [M&K Resources in Use](/resources/case-studies/). Further reflections about teaching hands-on activities can be found in the Project's [Reflections on Hands-On](/reflection/).

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### Digital Humanities
During development of the edition, we also taught digital humanities courses that integrated methods and tools of digital scholarship so that the students could help to build, test, and use the prototype of the edition. The syllabi for these courses provide information about minimal computing and the open access technology that underlie the edition and our digital publication tool, [EditionCrafter](LINK). Student projects resulting from these courses are included in this Companion [Digital Making and Knowing](digital), and can also be found on the Project's [Sandbox](https://cu-mkp.github.io/sandbox/), along with many additional digital projects using the data of the edition.
During development of the edition, we also taught digital humanities courses that integrated methods and tools of digital scholarship so that the students could help to build, test, and use the prototype of the edition. The syllabi for these courses provide information about minimal computing and the open access technology that underlie the edition and our digital publication tool, [EditionCrafter](https://editioncrafter.org). Student projects resulting from these courses are included in this Companion [Digital Making and Knowing](/resources/digital/), and can also be found on the Project's [Sandbox](https://cu-mkp.github.io/sandbox/), along with many additional digital projects using the data of the edition.

## The Sandbox
While teaching digital humanities courses, the Project established the [Making and Knowing Sandbox](https://cu-mkp.github.io/sandbox/) which makes available a number of resources that utilize and explore the data underlying *Secrets of Craft and Nature*. The Sandbox presents experimental, provisional, and in-progress work that engages and analyzes the data, topics, and content of *Secrets of Craft and Nature*, the manuscript, BnF Ms. Fr. 640, and the larger themes explored by the Making and Knowing Project.
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