Arielle2
Songster
Kids at school are making balloon run cars. THen nurse nixed it because the balloons are latex. 
The cars will be rubberband driven instead. 
The kids are building in class---no experiementing with what works better, smooth wheels, ruberbanded wheels, button wheels...... where is the learning...... it is just a competition. I talked ideas with my son when first assigned this project using internet images and utube to evaluate other designs and design faults. Hoping son was listening.
I miss the Destination Imagination projects that teach the adults to supervise and organize and discuss ideas but not to do it for the kids. The kids learn by doing---and trying to improve their designs. A one time project is less useful.... and stiffles creativity when it is graded. Stop grading. Pass/ Fail. Did the project or not.
The cars will be rubberband driven instead. The kids are building in class---no experiementing with what works better, smooth wheels, ruberbanded wheels, button wheels...... where is the learning...... it is just a competition. I talked ideas with my son when first assigned this project using internet images and utube to evaluate other designs and design faults. Hoping son was listening.
I miss the Destination Imagination projects that teach the adults to supervise and organize and discuss ideas but not to do it for the kids. The kids learn by doing---and trying to improve their designs. A one time project is less useful.... and stiffles creativity when it is graded. Stop grading. Pass/ Fail. Did the project or not.
