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.

Beyond the NPDL Framework

The Victorian Education Department (DET, 2015) highlights the 5e Instructional Model as a tool for the development of inquiry based lessons and units. There website provides a clear description about the 5es and their use. This week I summerised a variety of documents to create the 5e Framework that relates to the way the La Trobe Wildlife Sanctuary approaches education experiences.



Further, I delved into a bit of the theory behind the 6C's and created the following to guide the development of our activities.
This is hopefully starting to put some substance to the integration of the NPDL framework into the La Trobe Wildlife Sanctuary.