The goal of the Playful Engineering-Based Learning (PEBL) project is to enable children to experience learning through play in their classrooms every day. The focus of the project is to ensure equity in being able to learn through play to happen in schools with limited resources. We want to achieve this goal by working with teachers to enhance their capacity to deliver hands-on learning experiences to their students through PLAY.

With this project, Karkhana Samuha has built a collaboration with public and private schools and their teachers as well as local government and relevant organizations with missions aligned with playful learning and innovative approaches to learning. Teachers are essential to bringing playful engineering-based learning to students and teachers in this complicated post-COVID educational landscape where schools are juggling competing priorities. Samuha has identified teachers and working with them to help them design and deliver playful engineering-based learning through 3 different approaches. First Samuha worked on designing PEBL learning kits for students. The PEBL kits have 16 different hands-on activities for 10 to 14-year-old students with curricular ties. Samuha has provided the teachers with digital support through videos, blogs, and other reading resources to help them implement the activities from the PEBL kits. Second, Karkhana Samuha has conducted teacher development workshops for over 50 teachers to enhance their capacity of supporting learning through play in their classrooms. Third, Samuha has been working to build a Community of Practice for educators centered around discussing progressive learning All the approaches will prioritize social-emotional components integrated with team-based hands-on playful engineering activities that are grounded in their local context; and will be agile to respond to the changing needs of learning being remote, in-person or hybrid.