Rube Goldberg Machine Creators!
TechMate evenings are for girls from Grade 4 – Grade 6 to invite a significant male in their lives to join them for an...
Why Making to Learn?
Making is an essential part of being human. Humans have always made and created to survive and evolve. So why has education not continued...
Winches and Conveyor Belt Stories
This activity followed on from the skills mastered in ‘Engineering with Winches and Pulleys’
The girls viewed different types of conveyor belts and how they...
Guest blog: Investigate & Create
Just as students grow and learn by working with their peers, so do teachers! How fortunate to be able to work with Deb Koh,...
Being a Guest Blogger
Softlink specialises in knowledge, content and library management systems and request management systems for special, education, government and corporate information centres and libraries. St...
TechMates created with Hydraulics!
TechMate is held once a term for our girls from Grade 4 – 6 to come along with a significant male in their life...
Holiday ‘Making’!
Now that the New Year is approaching, and the excitement of new toys is in full swing, keep the ‘creating’ and ‘making’ going both...
Books and Technology
Although not spending as much time in our wonderful library with #bestteachingpartnerever, the use of literature to inspire and motivate students to ‘have a...
Fun with NeoPixels!
I was fortunate to attend a workshop on using Neopixels with conductive thread. My wonderful colleague, friend and ‘Makerspace’ guru, Anne Weaver, told me...
Learning with LittleBits.
This term students have been prototyping with LittleBits. We have been fortunate to be able to purchase the LittleBits Pro-Library which has over 300 bits. In...