Description

When you purchase and download this resource, you will receive an 11 page booklet. It includes all you need to achieve success in teaching your children about structures/arcade machines using recycled materials and minimal resources.

This project is aimed at developing both skills in STEM learning alongside team work skills, problem solving, cooperation and communication skills, within a meaningful scenario.

The booklet includes:

Cover Page
Contents and resources
Aims of the project
Lesson Plans for teaching the project and hints as to when to let the children "fail" before intervening with support and "Handy Hints"
Scenario to read to make the learning purposeful (how the children will be researching, designing, making and playing arcade machines)
Research and Planning sheet along with 6 targeted questions to support research and preparation before making
Handy Hints Sheet 1 (Making strong and rigid support poles from newspaper)
Handy Hints Sheet 2 (Making stronger joints using struts)
Certificate to mark success, the end of the project and celebrating taking part.

The aims of the project have been identified as:

Social skills

Develop the skills of co-operation
Improve communication skills
To support one another to reach a shared goal
To delegate tasks
Discuss issues and solve problems as they arise
Have fun in achieving the outcome and support the development of new friendships

STEM skills

Research different arcade games (not electronic games)
Design own version of an arcade game
Use recycled resources creatively to make arcade machine
Use class-based equipment to complete the project
Write instructions to be able to play the game
Play the game
Open to the public and create a large Arcade for others to play and enjoy

However, these are not exhaustive skills and the project is flexible and open enough for other skills to be developed.

The 6 Lesson Plans are detailed with session numbers, clear purpose to the lesson, detailed activity plans and outcome of the session. The plans clearly tell the teacher when to let the children experiment, when to allow them to fail in order to learn and problem solve, when to use the Handy Hints sheets and when to intervene with further skills teaching to move them onto the next stage of the project.

Resources are limited and inexpensive. To complete the project, each group will need:

1 copy per group of…
Copies of Arcade Machine Design Sheet
Handy Hints 1 and 2
Lots of boxes, different sizes and
Shapes
Sellotape
Glue
Card and paper
General resources: Scissors, measuring stick, pens, pencils, paints, paintbrushes etc

Our children enjoyed this project, especially the fact that it used recycled resources, as well as recycling resources that would normally be thrown away, making it a very inexpensive project to complete - and most importantly - they got to play the machines that they and their friends had made. We also used the opportunity to open up the arcade to the parents of the children and the older children in the school to come and play - paying for the privilege of doing so and raising money for the school.

Thank you for visiting our store and viewing our resources.

Best wishes

INSPIReducation

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