Eco Constructors Workshop
This creative construction-site is what childrens' dreams are made of, a place where anything is possible…
Invent a new form of transportation, a giant robot, a fire-breathing dragon!
If they can imagine it, they can build it!
Re-use cardboard materials with our tools to make sculptures and structures of grand scale, learn about the impact of recycling and work to create something special or spectacular.
What happens in this incursion?
The presenter begins by introducing the tools and cardboard materials the workshop will use, training the kids on the basic skills and logic behind construction. The children learn how to connect multiple pieces of cardboard, make shapes, and most importantly, the function of the construction tools.
These tools and the skills involved mirror real building tools: screwdrivers, saws and fold perforators, and their use enables a whole world of creativity! Children emerge with the skills to approach the use of real building tools in future as they understand their function and basic operating logic. All tools used within this workshop have been designed for effective use with cardboard/by kids and are age-rated for use by ages 3+.
The subsequent workshop flexibly embraces group building and individual building simultaneous as the presenter individually facilitates projects and ideas across the room. Past group builds have included giant dragons, robots and cities – the goal of this workshop is to instill the skill-capability to enact childrens’ own creative vision, whether large or small.
Moving parts and more complicated mechanisms are possible based on the age and skill-level of the students - the presenter will cater to the level of the group and inspire builds that will challenge any involved.
Adaptable to Any Age Group or Skill-Level
We are adept at communicating skills to all kids, irrespective of their age. While this incursion suits primary-school-aged kids and older, it can also be altered to fit pre-schoolers’ ability-level, too.
The use of Cardboard Construction tools involves a range of techniques of varying difficulty, meaning that the full breadth of ability-levels can be addressed within the one workshop. Creativity is accessible to all. They can take the physical skill elements of this workshop out into the world and apply them to: engineering their own projects, using woodworking tools, re-using other recycled material types, and much, much more.
We guarantee each child will succeed in achieving skills to express themselves creatively, problem-solve and practice their outside the box thinking!
Suitable for Any Group Size
We can accommodate any number of children in this incursion, up to and including your entire school population! See our Q&As for how.
Educational Outcomes
The children will be engaged through a variety of activities and challenges designed to encourage:
- Environmental Conservation: Re-use and Recycle - devising new applications for existing materials
- Environmental Conservation: Re-use and Recycle - adapting design to suit available material properties
- Environmental Conservation: History and environmental impact
- Environmental Conservation: Where to source materials
- Science: Physics and Engineering - intersection of natural forces and structural supports
- Science and Technologies: Engineering - hands-on construction
- Science: Engineering - understanding and application of unique materials' properties
- Science: Physics and Engineering - movement and its effect on structural composition
- Science: Engineering - Problem-solving
- Mathematics - Geometry - spatial reasoning (2D and 3D)
- Mathematics - Geometry - Calculating and measuring
- Mathematics - Geometry - Mapping 3D structures in 2D
- Language and Technologies - Technical Language (applicable to woodworking/metalworking)
- The Arts and Science: Design and Engineering - Working to a brief (and finding their ways to address that while still expressing themselves their own way)
- The Arts: Quick, creative thinking
- The Arts: Design and Sculpture: Evolving creative vision progressively through a build as artist practice
- The Arts: Design and Sculpture: Executing the students' own pre-concieved creation
- The Arts and Humanities: Design and Sculpture - analyse historical architectural examples to be inspired by historical solutions and forms
- The Arts: Sculpture - Building of sculptures both large and small
- Health: Group Co-operation and Independent Learning - Creating alone or working together
- Health: Group Co-operation - Integrating their own creative project within a group build
About the Program
This creative construction-site is what childrens' dreams are made of, a place where anything is possible…
Invent a new form of transportation, a giant robot, a fire-breathing dragon!
If they can imagine it, they can build it!
Re-use cardboard materials with our tools to make sculptures and structures of grand scale, learn about the impact of recycling and work to create something special or spectacular.
What happens in this incursion?
The presenter begins by introducing the tools and cardboard materials the workshop will use, training the kids on the basic skills and logic behind construction. The children learn how to connect multiple pieces of cardboard, make shapes, and most importantly, the function of the construction tools.
These tools and the skills involved mirror real building tools: screwdrivers, saws and fold perforators, and their use enables a whole world of creativity! Children emerge with the skills to approach the use of real building tools in future as they understand their function and basic operating logic. All tools used within this workshop have been designed for effective use with cardboard/by kids and are age-rated for use by ages 3+.
The subsequent workshop flexibly embraces group building and individual building simultaneous as the presenter individually facilitates projects and ideas across the room. Past group builds have included giant dragons, robots and cities – the goal of this workshop is to instill the skill-capability to enact childrens’ own creative vision, whether large or small.
Moving parts and more complicated mechanisms are possible based on the age and skill-level of the students - the presenter will cater to the level of the group and inspire builds that will challenge any involved.
Adaptable to Any Age Group or Skill-Level
We are adept at communicating skills to all kids, irrespective of their age. While this incursion suits primary-school-aged kids and older, it can also be altered to fit pre-schoolers’ ability-level, too.
The use of Cardboard Construction tools involves a range of techniques of varying difficulty, meaning that the full breadth of ability-levels can be addressed within the one workshop. Creativity is accessible to all. They can take the physical skill elements of this workshop out into the world and apply them to: engineering their own projects, using woodworking tools, re-using other recycled material types, and much, much more.
We guarantee each child will succeed in achieving skills to express themselves creatively, problem-solve and practice their outside the box thinking!
Suitable for Any Group Size
We can accommodate any number of children in this incursion, up to and including your entire school population! See our Q&As for how.
Educational Outcomes
The children will be engaged through a variety of activities and challenges designed to encourage:
- Environmental Conservation: Re-use and Recycle - devising new applications for existing materials
- Environmental Conservation: Re-use and Recycle - adapting design to suit available material properties
- Environmental Conservation: History and environmental impact
- Environmental Conservation: Where to source materials
- Science: Physics and Engineering - intersection of natural forces and structural supports
- Science and Technologies: Engineering - hands-on construction
- Science: Engineering - understanding and application of unique materials' properties
- Science: Physics and Engineering - movement and its effect on structural composition
- Science: Engineering - Problem-solving
- Mathematics - Geometry - spatial reasoning (2D and 3D)
- Mathematics - Geometry - Calculating and measuring
- Mathematics - Geometry - Mapping 3D structures in 2D
- Language and Technologies - Technical Language (applicable to woodworking/metalworking)
- The Arts and Science: Design and Engineering - Working to a brief (and finding their ways to address that while still expressing themselves their own way)
- The Arts: Quick, creative thinking
- The Arts: Design and Sculpture: Evolving creative vision progressively through a build as artist practice
- The Arts: Design and Sculpture: Executing the students' own pre-concieved creation
- The Arts and Humanities: Design and Sculpture - analyse historical architectural examples to be inspired by historical solutions and forms
- The Arts: Sculpture - Building of sculptures both large and small
- Health: Group Co-operation and Independent Learning - Creating alone or working together
- Health: Group Co-operation - Integrating their own creative project within a group build