What is an idea? Are all ideas equal or the same? What is the difference between big ideas and small ideas?
After chatting and reading ideas and rethinking the everyday “normal” we came up with concepts such as our playground have a zoo, our classroom to have a glass floor with an aquarium/plants living on the classroom walls and a bedroom wall that is one big iPad.
We talked about the invention of the car and how the invention changed the way people get around. What is needed for a car to move? We discussed how we could “re-think”, “re-imagine” and “re-idea” what we know about cars.
We watched the video the Google Driverless Car:
Kids were amazed!
We discussed who could benefit from this re-imagining of the automobile. Students decided that people that were visually impaired, teenagers, elderly individuals and kids like them would be able to go to their friends house without their parents driving them.
We then watched another video of reimagining and rethinking:
After all of this brainstorming: We read this amazing visual literacy picture book:
Students were then invited to go and draw, build or create their own version of something new. Students drew submarine cars, flying vans, re-designed bird houses and built a house out of lego,large blocks with re-designed bedrooms and beds.
Interesting discussion and dialogue friends.
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