Exciting eTextiles!
The term started with the girls researching the history and difference between eTextiles and wearable technology. They spent some time learning simple sewing stitches,...
STEM ideas for Year 1 & 2
Children learn through play and discovery. Providing curious and interesting activities gives students opportunities to share their understanding and build on previous knowledge and...
3D Printing and HTML & CSS
Students observed the structures in their immediate environment, both natural and man-made. Using Splat3D the students experimented drawing 3D shapes and then building on...
STEM Ideas for Preppies!
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is so engaging for students in the primary years when each subject is integrated into ‘making’ activities. Students...
TechMate Term 4 2020
One of my favourite events each term is TechMates! The evening is for girls from Grade 4 - 6 to invite a significant male in...
Interactive Research with Makey Makey
Giving our year 6 students the opportunity to discover and play with Makey Makey enabled us to address the DT curriculum descriptors: Identify and explore...
TechMate create with Micro:Bit
TechMate is held once a term after school for girls from grade 4 - 6 to bring along a significant male in their lives...
UN Sustainable Development Goals & the Micro:Bit
Engaging students with the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals using the Micro:Bit was successful and fun when games were created. Each student selected...
Ideas for Exploring Machine Learning in the Primary Years.
Artificial Intelligence, and its subset Machine Learning, is very much part of our lives and will be even more so in the lives of...
TinkeringChild @ Home
If you follow TinkeringChild web posts, Facebook or Instagram you will know how strongly TinkeringChild feels about how learning ‘happens’ where constructivism and constructionism...