Resources – Sticks, a stone and a bowl

Implementation

Use your problem solving and fine motor skills to lay your sticks out and balance the stone so it doesn’t fall through into the bowl. As a challenge limit the amount of sticks and use a smaller stone!

Intent – Learning goals

Characteristics of Effective Learning

Playing and Exploring –

Being willing to ‘have a go’

• Initiating activities
• Seeking challenge
• Showing a ‘can do’ attitude
• Taking a risk, engaging in new experiences, and learning by trial and error

Active Learning –

Being involved and concentrating

• Maintaining focus on their activity for a period of time
• Showing high levels of energy, fascination
• Not easily distracted
• Paying attention to details

Keeping on trying

• Persisting with activity when challenges occur
• Showing a belief that more effort or a different approach will pay off
• Bouncing back after difficulties

Enjoying achieving what they set out to do

• Showing satisfaction in meeting their own goals
• Being proud of how they accomplished something – not just the end result
• Enjoying meeting challenges for their own sake rather than external rewards or praise

Creating and Thinking Critically

Having their own ideas

• Thinking of ideas
• Finding ways to solve problems
• Finding new ways to do things

Making links

• Making predictions
• Testing their ideas

Choosing ways to do things

• Planning, making decisions about how to approach a task, solve a problem and reach a goal
• Checking how well their activities are going
• Changing strategy as needed
• Reviewing how well the approach worked