Reflecting Together
An important part of the collaborative, design process is having the opportunity to engage in quality reflection. This may be related to the final product, the experience of working together or wider connections.
Primary 7/6 - Exploring the Forth and Clyde Canal
The children were asked to look carefully and take notice of animal and plant life, signs, activities and people along the canal. We frequently walk places without really 'seeing' everything.
Wow - its frozen over! Did anyone see that robin? Look - the ducks! They are coming down onto the ice. There's a football stuck in the ice over there! Ha! It's a bench. Can we sit on it? |
I've never noticed that sign before! I've cycled along here before. What's that? (Plant) It looks like sausage on a stick! Or a carrot! You can sometimes see swans along here - but not today. |
I've never walked along the canal and had leaves fall off the tree on me before We could organise getting boats and picking up some of the litter along here. Did you know that ice on the canal is good for pike fishing? Is that a drawbridge? Does it come up? |
Primary 4 - Trying out various games that promote building relationships
Mexican Wave - Pobl i Bobl - Stickability
You have to be patient to wait your turn I liked the smaller group for Mexican Wave as you got more of a shot at a turn. Why is that stick doing that? Who is making it go up! You had to really think and persevere and support each other on that pobl one! |
We could try a different way of doing it to make it fairer. I preferred it in a larger group as it felt more like teamwork. I liked how we were laughing and it was fun...but it still wasn't working! Then we were kind of blaming each other! |