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they are designing recycling products. They are discovering mathematics in your life.

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Engaging Students to Construction.
Student starts building a spaghetti and marshmallow tower. Unlimited materials are available.

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In our Erasmus+ project #TastingSchools our students have to cook their own recipes with the help of the teachers. They have to think about ingredients and the making process.

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My little ones love creating objects and colouring pictures. They create objects, hand made crafts with the recyclable materials such as papers. They like collecting recyclable papers, newspapers and using them in the classroom to create their own objects.

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I used paper coated with different colors, crepe paper, cardboard for making Easter decorations.

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My students love to create objects and creative work using either textured material or recycled material or found in nature.
I think it's important to let them to try out creatively. Art, science, technology offer them the opportunity.

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An interesting and involving activity that engaged my pupils in a creative way. They had to choose how to play their stories in an eTwinning project . They collected  old cardboards and built a theatre, making use of puppets to represent their stories. They were very proud of their handmade theatre; they  also put some  led lights to make special effects. I collected some pictures in a folder in Materials (Marisa Badini Module 2 task1 : Theatre building for eTwinning project

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I teach Spanish and last year before Christmas students expressed their feelings creating word clouds with Tagul (http://bit.ly/2vuH1CF).
Thanks to this learning event, I've thought that I could ask my students to create Christmas decorations in two ways.
The first one is creating crochet decorations for a Christmas tree (balls, stars, flag of different country).
The second one is recycling CDs and transforming them as Christmas decoration to use on the windows of the classroom or on a tree.
This second idea comes from Make Magazine.
I'm proposing these two simple ideas because I already have at home all the materials we need.

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Twenty years ago, CDs reigned supreme as a preferred storage medium. However, with the onset of portable music players and streaming services, CDs have found themselves gathering dust in the corners of many a media library.

But that doesn't mean they have to die there. While CDs might not be your go-to channel for installing software or listening to music anymore, they can still offer themselves as parts for new projects.

In the event that you find yourself with a CD you know you'll never use again, you can pull off the foil backing, leaving you with a transparent disk perfect for art projects.

With some paint you can easily transform this obsolete disk into a faux stained glass sun catcher. Read on to follow along and make your own!

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Peel and Paint a CD to Put New Spin on Sun Catchers | Make:

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Twenty years ago, CDs reigned supreme as a preferred storage medium. However, with the onset of portable music players and streaming services, CDs have found themselves gathering dust in the corners of many a media library. But that doesn't mean they have to die there.

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AUTUMN ACTIVITY- My students ( 5th grade) collect the leaves form school  garden with their classmates.They designed a shape , an animal, a creative figure and tell its story using simple present tense ( unıt 1)

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This school year, to celebrate Halloween, we managed to organize a pumpkin lantern contest and it was fun :)

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I think that all science activities are perfect for involving tinkering and making. In my school we made the vegetablle garden and students organized all.

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I would use paper circuits to implement an activity I usually do with my students to make them more aware of grammar categories in English. In this activity, that is more a tool than an activity actually, I teach the students a "colour code" in which every part of a sentence has a specific colour according to its role. So, for example: the verbs "to be " and "to have got" are red, the subject pronouns are black, the common verbs (eg. go, do, like, walk, etc.) are green and so on. Each colour corresponds to a role and to a specific position in the sentence, that can change if the sentence is a question, a negative or an affirmative one. My students and I prepare sets of cards with different colours and then we start forming sentences in English. The aim of this activity is to get students aware of the changes of the verbs in the negative and the interrogative forms.
Papers circuits could make this activity even more interesting,  because students would use coloured leds, instead of simple coloured cards.
I am sorry, but I have no pictures of this activity, because I give everything to my students.

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I am a teacher of technical education I worked with my students of the electrical circuit like his

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My students enjoyed the coming of spring by building storks of recyclable materials.

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I would like to be able to connect to the study of the Cartesian plan using a 3D printer, in order to expand the program to the third dimension. This would lead pupils to reason on the application of mathematical theory to the practical aspects necessary to achieve 3D objects

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During our Erasmus+ project "Water, a European Task in a Global Context" our science teacher created a turbine: Water on the turbine and a little bulb flashs up.

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Here you are our shoebox football game, I would like to try to propose it to my pupils during the next school year, I have tried to build it with my 7 year old nephew. We used straws, wooden sticks, plastic cups, double-sided tape, boxes and ..... very large pearls as ball. I think many school subjects will be involved: math, art, technology and Italian. I think we'll have a lot of fun. I will have a first class next year

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I suggest an activity that involves making of a remote-controlled car and its programming using arduino or arduino mega. I will propose this experience at my fifth class of technician studies in Telecommunications (ages between 18 - 19 years) along with its programming using Arduino or Arduino Mega.

After assembling, we go on programming the software of the remote controlled machine.

We need to insert a bluetooth sensor which works with an application on the smartphone adapted to the programming code.

So I would propose this task when dealing with the Wifi and Bluetooth systems topic.

The remote controlled car also has got a sensor to avoid crashes and in case it can use the automatic pilot mode.

If you want to turn a curve, the wheels of the remote controlled machine work in the opposite direction so these is able to change their route.

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For biology classes:
www.thinglink.com/scene/853155671309287425

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I don't have an example of what my students made last Christmas using a sauce, some pasta, the top of a plastic bottle, some glue and a candle. try to image it covered with golden or silver spray

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3d printing objects designed with Tinkercad

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Tutoring beetween 5th grade and Kindergarten.

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These are my 6 grade students. They are making a poster to our partners

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This is my pupil's creation.

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I usually introduce the cryptography to my students every year.
The importance of the cryptography is based on the concept to encrypt and decrypyt a message.
After introducing  the Vigenère cypher we enjoyed trying to encrypt and decrypyt messages.
I gave them two sheets.
On the first sheet there was  Vigenère table  and I asked each student to write an encrypt message on the second sheet. Each student chose a keyword and, using the table, encrypted the message.
The most amusing moment was when each student decrypted the message of another student
and found out that the table really worked very well!!

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A Christmas Calendar - digital and real
I did this activity with my students just before Christmas. We learned about the Random Acts of Kindness campaign so I asked them to create digital Christmas calendars. For each day they had to think of an act of kindness that they and their peers could do on the days before Christmas. They used a simple tool called Tuerchen - here's one of their digital calendars: https://tuerchen.com/a69cfVA6 However, they liked the idea very much, so they created a real, huge Christmas calendar which was displayed in the school corridor.

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Scuola Primaria San Tarcisio e dell'Infanzia Bimbi Lieti

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The first class pupils together with their teachers, Carla and Rachel for the eTwinning project "Inside the rainbow" had fun, making a rainbow indoors, with a simple experiment. Pupils have continued to explore the colors and the light with the Newton Disk.

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Unfortunately I have no pictures to show, but in my second grade maths lessons pupils built a town relief map with boxes and other materials. They were allowed to experiment and collaboratively find their way and they learnt a lot about maths and geography

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During our lessons robotics we created small boats.It is very easy and funny

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How to Make a Simple Electric Boat - Fast Speed Boat DIY

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Hi Everyone & Happy New Year 2017 Coming Soon! Today I want to share with you how to make a simple powered boat with dc motor which I got it from toy fan. I hope everyone one can do it and have fun with it. Thank you for watching!!

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The pupils had the opportunity to create the rainbow through the simple experiment of a light beam on a cd and they wondered how it would feel under a color shower

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Italian, Bulgarian, Czech and Polish students have been able to learn color from the emotional and scientific point of view through the eTwinning project "Inside the rainbow". We asked them: "How do I feel under the shower of different light?"

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the magic box

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The playground inside

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During this year with my primary school pupils (age 8) we participated in an educational project on the topic of recycling. Pupils were led to hypothesize the potential of presence in our territory of a recycling center.
A recycling center makes the projects and dreams possible and "sustainable" because it provides material for new projects and, like a magic box, it already contains the dream of my children: a playground at school. The plastic was made using only recycled material

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In an environmental project we did with the students of all the school, we made a robot that would help in picking the rubbish. We used the idea to make comics, posters, recycling, robotics, radio shows and presentations. You can see our project at http://roborecyclinginpyrgos.weebly.com/

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Σοφία Κουζούλη

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Εκπαιδευτική ρομποτική και ανακύκλωση

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Το 8ο Δημοτικό Σχολείου Πύργου με την ομάδα ΧΑΡ-Τi συμμετείχε στον Παγκόσμιο Διαγωνισμό Εκπαιδευτικής Ρομποτκής First Lego League Trash Trek. Στο σχολείο μας υλοποιούμε το πρόγραμμα "Ανακυκλώνω με ρομπότ στον τόπο που γεννήθηκαν οι Ολυμπιακές Αξίες", που στοχεύει στην ευαισθητοποίηση των μαθητών στο θέμα της επαναχρησιμοποίησης και ανακύκλωσης, και στην ανάπτυξη των δεξιοτήτων επίλυσης προβλημάτων με τη χρήση της ρομποτικής τεχνολογίας που χρησιμοποιούμε ως μέσο ενίσχυσης της δημιουργικής σκέψης και της καλλιέργειας περιβαλλοντικής συνείδησης.

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We thought of making a school mini company in our school. So, we decided to make traditional greek sweets with almonds. Our students collected almonds and used them to prepare sweets. They designed a logo for our comp. Then packed the sweets and labelled them. They worked together exchanging ideas, becoming creative, assertive and able to cooperate with each others.

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Art lesson. Students bring material to be recycled from home. They work in groups and create their "house of dreams" with the material they have available. They had to discuss, find a way to use the material, tinkering, redoing, until the final "Traumhaus" was ready to be exposed.

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We made a herb garden  in our school . School gardens are a wonderful way to use the schoolyard as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agriculture concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects, as well as several educational goals, including personal and social responsibility.

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Miguel Ignacio Herreros Martín, Lardero (Spain

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Miguel Ignacio Herreros Martín, Lardero (Spain

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Traffic lights sequencer with arduino.
We have experiment with students of 4th of secondary (ESO,  16 years) programming an Arduino Uno and a set of leds to simulate a cross road traffic light system.
Our new goal is to experiment with sensors (light, proximity, temperature,...)

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During last school year my students in 4th year, primary school, participated in an Ikea contest. they have created a small garden with recycled materials within a completelyforgotten corner of the school.

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During last school year my students in 4th year, primary school, participated in an Ikea contest. they have created a small garden with recycled materials within a completelyforgotten corner of the school.

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http://scuola.ikea.it/gallery/481/fullscreen?p=2

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https://padlet.com/gozdetemizci/e9sebzxdu0di

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Carmela Fuoco from Lamezia Terme (Italy)

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Carmela Fuoco from Lamezia Terme (Italy)

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I'm a math and physical teacher of secondary school. Especially during physical lessons I always propose to my students activities involving  "tinkering and making" inviting them to make experiments with poor materials. In this way they can experiment firsthand with the theoretical concepts studied .

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The Bionic Tower is a small town in the form of an eco-friendly building where you can find living quarters, cinemas, offices, commercial areas, hanging gardens and solar panels. My students have built this model for an environmental project.

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There are so many ideas on this wall! As a part of a project we participated and in an effort to teach about Media edu and visual thinking our students created glass and fabric painting in order to make their own tutorials. http://mediaerasmus.weebly.com/tutorials.html
The idea would go further if they  added self created leds on  their glass creations ex making a light spot! :)

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Reading the posts below have given me two simple ideas that most likely I'll realize next school year:
1) a Christmas card with a led
2) a matching game in English with copper plate, a coin battery and leds that light them on when the matching activity (picture/word) is right

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Some years ago I carried on with a class of 5th graders a CLIL project about a very peculiar wetland near my town in which the flamingoes regularly nest. We involved L1, Le2 (English), Art & craft, ICT and Science of course! As a final result the pupils, divided into small groups, had to exploit the information gathered during the project to create and realize with simple materials some board games to play with. They have been involved a lot and had so much fun in planning (so in tinkering, now that I know what it is), creating (so in making) and playing with them! Memory and the other Board games have been used for years!This is a sample of our work:

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I teach in the Italian Primary School. Two years ago, together with a colleague of a parallel class, we took advantage of the study of Prehistory to search and build the first types of housing for pupils. Some willing parents were also involved. Everyone is committed to building with various recycle materials, some really ingenious. We did not use online resources, if not indirectly for historical research. We used photos, books, multimedia encyclopedias. The final result, exhibited at the end-of-year show, has witnessed the productivity of what has been designed and experimented. I attach some photos of the exhibition.

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In my  ICT classes, I promoted some activities with the goal of making them think by doing. In this way, the children performed a game with bows as suggested in the attached video. The idea was for students to switch places with each other but obeying some rules explained in advance. It was fun and the goal was achieved. Students solved problems by cooperating and communicating with each other and testing various hypotheses.

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Curso Brincar Cooperativo - SP - Arcos 1

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Prof. Ms. Marcos Teodorico Pinheiro de Almeida ministrando curso Brincar Cooperativo durante o II Congresso Brasileiro de Atividade Física e Desenvolvimento Humano e XV Congresso Paulista de Educação Física, realizado no período de 23 a 25 de Junho de 2011 em Jundiaí - SP. Neste vídeo, apresenta brincadeiras simples e divertidas utilizando arcos!

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Science experiment tinkering.
Before finishing our school year, I tried experiments to proove different materials characteristics. Kids used common ordinary objects to prrove conductivity, flexibility, water proof, inflamability, etc
In this picture, kids are testing conductivity with lemons in a Science class, making a circuit with a battery, wires, a small light bulb and lemons.

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I am  tutor in a school -  work project. Tinkering and making can be done through such a project too.

Students are trying to build a website to promote their own city.
Last year they designed tourist itineraries, wrote texts on local monuments and events to be uploaded on the website.
Some students were as tourist guides (in Italian and English) for their classmates for just one day, experiencing difficulties in such a job.

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I'd like my pupils create the main character about a story that it'll be introduced by my two colleagues, who teach Italian. They should create it using recycling materials or tools.

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I'm a primary school teacher in Ital, but who has a great experience in the kindergarten where I have taught for 30 years. I propose the math activities with children 5 years of kindergarten. Play, build cubes with puzzles and then build up quantities, rank them, create relationships ... in short, learn by playing.

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With my 3-5 year olds I have read a story 'The very hungry caterpillar'. Then, I  made with the children a board game based on the story and the children kept playing it. They loved it. The game helped them to sequence the events in the story and improve their counting skills. Maybe in the future we could use surface-mount LEDs to make our board to light up. (Sorry, I couldn't find a photo of the game.)

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With my 3-5 year olds I have read a story 'The very hungry caterpillar'. Then, I  made with the children a board game based on the story and the children kept playing it. They loved it. The game helped them to sequence the events in the story and improve their counting skills. Maybe in the future we could use surface-mount LEDs to make our board to light up. (Sorry, I couldn't find a photo of the game.)

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I would also like to try with making light painting with my children. However, I am not sure if they are not too young for it.

(by Violeta Korkucyte)

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During the last year's eTwinning project my pupils (3-5 year olds) used recycled materials to make musical instruments. They have made shakers out of yogurt pots and decorated them. Then, they have used them to play in a band using different musical instruments. 

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During the last year's eTwinning project my pupils (3-5 year olds) used recycled materials to make musical instruments. They have made shakers out of yogurt pots and decorated them. Then, they have used them to play in a band using different musical instruments. 

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https://www.slideshare.net/VioletaKO/making-musical-instruments-presentation

They have also used recycle materials creatively to make different kinds of vehicles. I could develop that activity further by using copper tape, surface-mount LEDs, coil cell batteries to make the vehicles light up.
(By Violeta Korkucyte)

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For the next year, I would like to do some coding lessons, using for example unplugged activity.
This year in art we used to make many drawings giving instructions.

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I teach Italian, math, art, technology, history in a fifth class. The pupils, have made beautifu flowers at Mother's Day.

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Part of the Work I made with my students for an eTwinning Project named "Greetings from my region"

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Part of the Work I made with my students for an eTwinning Project named "Greetings from my region"

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Think and Make: My students loved to do It and they want to repeat that wonderful experience next School Year :)

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View these interactive images by Céu Martins.

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Some years ago I had a Comenius project about recycling. Students from Italy, England, Spain and Turkey had to use every kind of material to prepare a fundraising exhibition.
The result was amazing!

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My pupils' thinkering: they used recycling and performed their handmade works.

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I used molds for my primary ESL classroom for teaching the food unit. It was fun for the children and  they enjoyed creating the molds and then naming different types of food.

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Here is a project I would do in October, the month dedicated to healthy food.

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Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception

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Science of Cooking: Eggs | Exploratorium

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Learn about the science behind cooking with eggs with fun online exhibits, articles, recipes, and activities.

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Here is one result of the teaching topic recycling. The question was how to prevent garbage and waste. It was a good idea from some students, to show that you can also make useful things out of waste. A group of students created bags of the packaging of chocolate. The packages are cleaned, fallen, sewn and a zipper is sewn on it at least.

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My students made lapbooks with Christmas recipes and send it to they partners from Czechia.

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I work in a primary school near Piacenza, in Italy.
The aim was to build something using recycled materials.
My students  worked in group and some of them   made funny dolls: the body is a spoon  of wood.

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In my school there are many students of the arts who use technology in many activities related to art.

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My high school students used tinkering in robotics workshops - they played with Lego Mindstorms and other robotics sets and created robot-dancers, robotic pencil, moving robot and so on. I especially liked girls' project once in this kind of activities - they sewed and linked lights to the robot and created the robotic old prophet who blinked with her eyes, moved and said something. It looked impressive with that new dress they made for their model.

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I teach students aged 11 to 14. As a part of the activities concerning Safer Internet Day students have a job to think how to educate their parents about this topic. They worked in groups, make different project ideas about organizing a workshop, prepared materials (presentations, brochures , quizzes). On this way they learned a lot but also they were re-thinking all the time trying to make their workshop idea the best. They were learning while doing and re-create their first idea several times. I think that the most important is that they reflect on their learning on time and improve their final work

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I am a Primary school teacher and my disciplines are Italian and English languages. I like art and crafts and creating books..In these photos my students invented and created strange houses as book covers containing invented tales about these strange houses, their inhabitants and their adventures...there are also pop up pages to represent places, characters and situations...

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This school year me and my students have created from recyclable materials our village model to discuss the needs of the local community, traffic rules, geometric shapes, ecology and sciences.
It was a successful project that I kindly recommend to all.

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My students  aged between 11-13 and they have some cognitive problems. I can use with them the schedules presented in the below link . They are useful also for them.
http://www.museoscienza.org/scienzabile/scuola.asp

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Light Painting - https://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/light-painting I can imagine using light painting in my English classes e.g as inspiration for writing stories. As explained in pdf file https://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/sites/default/files/projectpdfs/Light_Painting.pdf we can go even further and capture long exposure images

of the cityscape, planes flying

overhead, the stars and moon

moving through the sky. Students could make a wall of their paintings and we could discuss different topics in English, make speculations...

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My students like experiments. We used the method of learning through scientific investigation in the i-best project ,,Weather and weather parameters"

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This project involves Art, Technology and English.

Here is a list of useful parts if you want to experiment with paper circuits .

Essential materials
Copper tape
Surface-mount LEDs
Coin cell batteries

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https://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/sites/default/files/Instructions/paper_circuits.pdf
I have never tought through tinkering or making but in September I will make a project for a particular subject of Geography. My student will built a route to go home from school. In conclusion, the subjects involved are: Geography and technology

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With the students of the third class I work on Digital Logic Circuits. Working in group students study  basic terminology, types of logic gates (AND, OR, NOT), the basic logical operations and they build electrical circuits.
In the linked presentation it is possible to have a look to their work (it's in italian, I'm sorry...)

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Circuiti in serie e in paralello-Scienze

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As I teach English, I couldn't think of any hands-on projects, but I thought that creating a talking avatar would be fun and have many uses, such as presenting an issue, giving a speech, explaining a tense use, etc.  This is my short sample:

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My students are third  class and this year  have realized this works.

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My students are first class and this year have realized this work.

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My students worked on recycling and they produced many recycled objects following instructions on websites

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At Christmas, with my children age 8/9, during the hours of art,

we made a string ornament.

How to Make a String Ornament
https://youtu.be/EYIqzdFc8to

Here's a fun, new, craft ornament idea to try with the kids––string ball ornaments! They're easily made as ovals ("eggs" for Easter) and orbs (Christmas and just "decorative balls"). Their very simplicity is what makes them so delightful to behold––they have a texture people love to touch and they're equally at home with rustic themes through to more sophisticated decorating.

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We make a wall of Christmas cards with our best wishes. But we do not use the electronics to design them. I believe that after what has been learned in this course it would be a good idea to put it into practice.

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My students could prepare a special Christmas tree recycling old CDs. Using English to explain, they have to paint famous cities skylines. All these CDs could be linked using a fishing line and they form a special Christmas tree.
We take picture of all the passages. Put in a movie maker video and we could sing a foreign song. It could be a nice way to send Christmas wishes, recycling materials and learning writing and speaking English.

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Cups & robots! Enjoy unplugged activities! Let's code in action! :)

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TOUCH this image to discover its story. Image tagging powered by ThingLink

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I like working with my students in the end of the units.My students created a city and light up the biridges and streets.By doing the activities like this learning is more permanent

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I like working with my students in the end of the units.My students created a city and light up the biridges and streets.By doing the activities like this learning is more permanent

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Making light-up greeting cards for special occasion like Christmas cards for example. I teach at a Primary school and this activity is usual but add electrical circuit in these cards is new for me and my students. It's a plus and involve different subjects like Art, Math, Science and Language too because before and during the activity I have to describe every steps (thinkering).

I completely agree with constructivist theory of learning that knowledge is not simply transmitted from teacher to learner but actively constructed by the mind of the learner and when learners are actively engaged in making an external artifact they construct meaning and understanding.

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When studying the geography of our country students can draw a big map with the mountains, rivers, natural resources and cities on it. They also make 3D models of historical buildings printed and put on the map like this:

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Tamari Eliashvili.                        At the Biology lesson Students  create a model of a DNA genome.  Students use this model to demonstrate mobile DNA and the role of gene duplication and modification in evolution.  Students move sections of “DNA” around the genome to simulate “jumping genes.”  Jumping genes, also known as mobile DNA, are an important source of genetic variation.  In creating genetic variation, mobile DNA is as important as point mutations, the more familiar concept of how DNA changes over time. 

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Tamari Eliashvili.                        At the Biology lesson Students  create a model of a DNA genome.  Students use this model to demonstrate mobile DNA and the role of gene duplication and modification in evolution.  Students move sections of “DNA” around the genome to simulate “jumping genes.”  Jumping genes, also known as mobile DNA, are an important source of genetic variation.  In creating genetic variation, mobile DNA is as important as point mutations, the more familiar concept of how DNA changes over time. 

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I´d love to try light painting with the 6-year-olds. It seems accessible for not much materials are needed. It could be used to explore various phenomena (for example creating our very own aurora borealis, or just looking at different colours, or finding new ways of creative expression).

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I am a professor of professional textile items and on theoretical and practical lessons I try to stimulate creative thinking, curiosity and love for working with textiles and other materials, but also the application of technique and computers in teaching and learning.

In order to explain the construction of the student's sewing machine, we together prepared the following interactive presentation:

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/907000073978642433

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I like using digital tools to create artifacts, but if I have to organize activities to promote tinkering and making, I would like to give as task the creation of lapbooks to tell stories or to show countries the students study in English language or create a cube (in paper or other materials) to play games on vocabulary. They are two activities I have in my mind, but never tried to realize. This is one of my objectives for next school year. Here is a tutorial to make lapbooks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uquNEP49uk4
Here is a picture of a cube:

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In my school students and teachers celebrated Pi-day. During the event, students participated in numerous workshops and developed projects that linked mathematics, IT, physics, chemistry and geography.