Pinball & Creativity

A week after my lesson on simple machines I visit the school where I did the Pinball Machine lesson and discovered that some students had taken my ideas and created their own pinball's at home. Here's a couple that I took a couple of shots of.

What I find really encouraging about this is that the students have added things to the concept, which is ideally what we'd be looking for in  the development of 21st Century Learning Skills. It denotes critical thinking, creativity and innovation.

In these pictures you can see the students have added score boards and a scoring system and one student has created a more elaborate paddle system that is more authentic to a proper pinball machine.