Develop and Design

Students explored issues related to the manufacturing of jeans in sweatshops, then developed increasingly sophisticated questions.

A student created a one-page representation of the story The Lost Thing, including a synopsis and personal meaning, and explained the process and decisions.

Students worked together to solve an open-ended problem about sharing cookies.

In this French Immersion class, students were asked to solve a problem in groups of three:

“There are six cookies for the three of you.  Saha’s mom said he can only have one cookie. How will you share all the cookies so it’s fair?”

Students were asked to represent their thinking in any way they chose.

The video shows how students used a variety of ways to solve an open-ended problem about sharing cookies.

Students worked with various materials to respond to the challenge, “How high can you stack it?”

A table was set up with four work surfaces; a wooden, square plate and 5 bowls of materials:  Flat rocks, corks, spools, wooden rings and cubes.  A prompt card with the question, “How high can you stack it?” was also at the table, to promote child/adult participation.  The work surface was kept small in hopes the children would stack up.