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These tasks were designed to:
encourage students to begin their own investigations
support students in developing their own wonderings
scaffold the process of gathering and grouping their own information
continue developing their coding and computational thinking skills
promote collaboration amongst students
support the acquisition of summarising, critical thinking and coding skills
Problem Solving - Creative Thinking Routines
Problem Solving - Creative Thinking Routines
Students explored the importance of problem solving and how this is an important part of being creative, discussing the opportunity to learn and make improvements to our initial designs and ideas.
An important part of being creative is being able to problem solve! We showed pictures of toys that have something wrong with it e.g. Lego car with square wheels. Boys work in pairs to answer the following questions;
How could we improve them?
What would we change?
What is the success criteria for this toy to be “working”?
Students draw a labelled diagram of their improved model of the ‘broken’ toy.
Impressed upon the students was the idea that when things don’t work or go to plan that it is not a ‘failure’. It just means that it is an opportunity to learn and that there are improvements to be made.
Students were asked why new models of products come out when the previous version was working well (improved technology and materials, planned obsolescence, changing styles and tastes etc.).
Teamwork Videos: Above and Beyond
Teamwork Videos: Above and Beyond
Students explored the importance of teamwork, the different roles of team members and why it’s important to work to the different strengths and ideas of team members.
Some “helpful phrases” were shared with the students to use when working in a group. Students engaged in a discussion about the importance of respecting the ideas of others when working as a team. Allow the students to reflect on their own behaviour and participation in group tasks and identify three areas they wish to work on in the future.
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