Science & Technology project
The adventure of
build The Lighthouse project started in the Science & Technology
tutorials. Here, we were challenged to build an artefact with three
electric circuits. For that, we should undertake a series of
investigations regarding Science and Technology in Primary School
Curriculum.
At
the beginning we were very excited with the idea of building something
that will be a science project for our professional portfolio. But we
should confess that this responsibility, also brought some fear to the
challenge. Would we be able to build an exciting artefact? And how it
will work? Which artefact should we choose that better correspond to the
students interests? There were so many questions to think about...
Firstly, we
thought to build some traffic lights, that would definitely be useful
for children to learn more about electricity and how the traffic works.
But on the week 3, in our tutorial classes, we were invited to build one
exemplar of traffic lights, so we gave up on this idea. We didn't want to repeat the artefact and we have to think about another thing.
Then, Reeta suggested to do a windmill. At the beginning we like the idea but at the same time it raised some concerns in our group. First because the main purpose of a windmill is to produce electricity
with wind energy. So building a windmill with electric circuits, might
create some misunderstanding in our future students. So, after some
research online, we had
the brilliant idea of building a lighthouse after reading the Learning
guide and realise the potential of this project in teaching Science and
Technology in a classroom. The development of a project like this in a
classroom provides teachers the opportunity to explore with their
students the basics of electric circuits, explore some features of local
environments, and technological and scientific development, as well as
many contents of other KLAs such as History, Geography, English,
Mathematics and Visual Arts. And that was the conclusion of our first meeting.
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