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Clockwork objects, enhanced learning: Automata Toys Construction in primary education for Learning to Learn promotion, creativity fostering & Key Competences acquisition, with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.

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Piloting with the primary school - Alivola - Step 2 - December 20, 2012 - Photos and Video

 

  School name:
Scuola elementare "Cures Sabini"
di Passo Corese, Rieti
Classroom: 3rd primary, B
Today's children will build their first automata, in order to become familiar with the construction techniques, materials and mechanisms. Today is December 20 and the theme of the day is of course Christmas. 1 - The Clohe teacher shows a series of automata that tell a story in six panels: a bird leaves the nest, learn to eat earthworms, and after a series of attempts, learn to fly and reach his brothers in flight. 2 - The mechanisms are hidden. The school teacher shows the automata whose mechanism will be discovered by children today. Its a 3D cam where a horizontal rotational movement is transformed into a vertical rotational movement. (click on the images)
3 - The children are asked to try to imagine the mechanism and draw it on the Clohe notebook. 4 - It 'a work in groups of four. Is given to children even the material, so that they can both draw that experiment manually. 5 - Children begin to experiment manually
6 - And to bring in the logbook the various working hypotheses. 7 - Children become familiar with the materials slowly, even touching them. 8 - It is clear that there are two sticks, but how they are related?
 
9 - The hypotheses are shown on the Clohe logbook.  10 - Some things slowly become clear: for example, the directions of rotation. 11 - The use of materials is important: in this case the mechanism is three-dimensional, and three-dimensional representation on a sheet of paper is not so easy.
   
12 - The crucial point is how the two central wheels are connected. 13 - As we can see from the results, only the use of design integrated to the practice allows to continue. 14 - The drawings of the album are all very similar. 
15 - Various tests with materials. The children share the work. Some crop, some glue, others draw or color. 
16 - It passed just over an hour from the beginning of the laboratory and almost all groups have come to discover the mechanism. The wheels are in the correct position. Children mount the outer wheel serving as a crank.
17 - Children begin to draw characters and decorations. Today the theme is Christmas. So reindeer, trees and sleds, and of course Santa Claus.
18 - The characters and decorations are created with colored rubber. 19 - The chosen model and its implementation 20 - The decoration is assembled on the table before being glued to the box.
21 - The bonding takes place with the hot glue, that children also mastered at this age. 22 - The surface of the box is also used as a stage set. 23 -  We are one step from the final presentation, and fit the latest decorations.
24- This is the first finite automata, a reindeer! At the bottom the Christmas tree and Santa Claus. 25 - The second automata is a Christmas sleigh. Below Santa Claus and the mountain..  26-  This is a witch with a broom, very pretty. Decorations and tree down.
27 -  At the end of the work we give children the evaluation questionnaire, 28 -  which will be returned before leaving. 29 -  In this video the work made today.