Kids Need to Tinker to Learn

This term Yachts students in Years 2, 3, 4 and 5 have deeply engaged with project based learning.

Our engineering teams were inspired “to tinker, to learn by doing and take agency for their learning” (Schwartz 2013). Students were given the opportunity to actively participate in the enquiry process as they created, found solutions, researched, tested and designed.

Our young engineers came up with new ideas, applied these to create an experience, observed, reflected and asked questions as they controlled the direction and pace of their learning. Metacognitive reflection allowed students to experiment, examine and implement innovations.

Brilliant bridges, captivating catapults, crazy cogs and magnificent machines were built, trialed and revised, as knowledge was combined and applied and projects were refined.

Fantastic exploration and discovery was shared and celebrated by all!

Ms Anthea Brighton, Head of P-5 Learning Enrichment