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NPR had a nice story on kids taking risks (a compliment our post from a couple days ago: Kids Need Adventurous Play) Camp Offers Kids A Chance To Play With Fire. Tinkering School gives kids a chance to make real things they use (boats, motorized bikes, bristle bots…). Their blog is awesome.
I started the Tinkering School because it’s the kind of thing I would like to have been able to go to myself.
I wish I could go. Related: National Underwater Robotics Challenge - Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids - La Vida Robot - Technology and Fun in the Classroom
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:53 am
This is great, I would have LOVED this as a kid!!!!
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Very interesting concept. If kids are not given an opportunity to fool around, they would end up taking those risks when there’s nobody there.
My mum hasn’t got the slightest clue the dangerous things i did when i was young!
December 8th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
This is always a winner with science students. I was always the teacher in trouble with my “higher ups” for taking my class outside and into the woods for botany and biology. They always remembered and learned the material covered in those time periods.
December 13th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Anne loved to take her things apart. It was mostly her toys - until the day she took a clock apart and spread its contents out. When her father asked what had happened, his daughter answered, “Oh, I took it apart. Daddy fix.”