Power Thinkers Keys

 Lola and Reece decided to rank animals according to their level of power - then decided to create some actions that go with it.

One of the challenges was to make a paper plane fly without using human power - throwing or dropping it.

Here are some of the attempts.

Power

 We have been learning about power during our sessions.

• Power takes many forms

• Power is always present

• Power has an impact

• Power can be natural or constructed

• Power can be potential or actual

We had to make a model of power.

Donald Trump

Power of protest

Waka - physical power

Power of nature

Tornado

Waves

lightning bolt

waka on the waves

Voting

 

Renaissance

 We built gyrocopters based on the Leonardo Da Vinci's design.

Intensities

 Children played a game thinking of how to dial up or down a situation. We were looking at different strategies to bring intensities to an appropriate level.

E.g you go to an arcade and the noise is really bothering you

Leonardo Da Vinci

 This week we took a deep dive into Leonardo Da Vinci and his passion for birds and flight. He wrote over 35000 words about birds and flight. We looked in particular at one of his famous drawings. We then chose to draw our own bird wing or follow a tutorial re how to draw Leonardo's wing.

Parent morning

Last week we had several parents join us for our MindPlus session. Hopefully it gave them an insight into what we do in our classes.