Room 11 have just had their turn to research and create a Commonwealth Games stadium. The first step was to research images of their chosen sport and mark them up with labels. (See below.)
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Scott, Ava-Richelle and Brooke working on their structures.
See more photos of us all working below. |
Next the children were asked to work together with other team members to construct a stadium venue that contained the features they found in their photographs. As well as the stadium there had to be some kind of connection to other structures - a road, railway, bridge or tunnel.
Each child chose their sport and group members. The "
world" was created in advance and a "
host" (i.e. a responsible child familiar with minecraft) appointed by the teacher. Their job was to manage the team members' construction projects within the "world".
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| See more constructions below. |
There were just a few rules. No sporting events were to be duplicated within a world; no Minecraft weapons were to be drawn (unless an indigenous animal indigenous to the world strayed onto the building site and endangered competitors, officials or media commentators).
This project involved (among other key skills) measurement, design, incorporating the research data into the final construction.
The class was given a set of
Success Criteria. And they were away. Each child was asked to record their progress throughout the day in a document (see the bottom of this post).
