What you will learn in our Engineering Workshop:
Swinging, running, jumping, falling. Children love to have fun with physical forces and to explore their effects. In this interactive workshop, you will delve into the impact of physical forces through leveraging, lifting, swinging, and moving and unleash your inner engineer.
Do you like to get creative or to immerse yourself in step-by-step instructions? Find out your engineering type – an analyst, experimenter, maker, or inventor — and, thinking about the different types of children in in your service, discover how to playfully integrate technical education into a nurturing learning environment.
In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to create rich STEM learning experiences in your service through the exciting topic of engineering and use it as a topic through which to teach the outcomes of the Early Years Learning Framework. Activities may include:
- Use rods, weights, and tools to invent something that balances on a rope.
- Discover how forces initiate movement.
- See the impact of friction by playing tug-of-war.
- Understand the connection between movement, mechanics, and the effect of physical force on the human body.
- Find out how a rock and a feather can fall at the same speed.
- Make your own catapult.
- Set up an incline plane and crash test toy cars.
- Make a Leaning Tower of Pisa and explore what happens when the diameter, height, or weight changes.
