Block Construction Centre

 

For the next two weeks I am going to challenge the children who are planning to participate in the construction area. I have downloaded a picture of traffic on 401 for the children to examine. As a large group we will discuss what they notice about the roadway and how they think it would be better. The children's challenge will be to create a roadway with as many lanes as possible that will allow lots of cars to be able to travel on the roadway without too much of a traffic jam.

After snack the children will talk about what worked well and what did not work well and how they plan to fix the problem the next day. It will be interesting to see how the children work together to solve this problem, how well they communicate their ideas with one and another, and to examine the various strategies they use to ensure everyone has a turn to share their ideas with the rest of the group.