The Built Environment

 Brought together 12 boys ages 8 and 9 with a serious interest in building and design...

 Their first challenge was to design their dream school....I encouraged wacky and strange ideas....just to have them leave the idea of school being a rectangular room, with windows, two doors, and desks. 

 What kind of school would you create and why?

 Lots of fun ways to enter school were explored...slides, ramps, and telaportation were a few...

 School in trees....

 School with a conveyor belt around the perimeter, to move you from class to class...

 Superjet elevators, and a time machine will make history lessons all the more exciting....

 Solar panels here, to heat the building...

 Robots to do the work...

A super rope climber contraption...so students can climb while they learn.  

Thanks boys...your ideas were brilliant, fun, and inspirational!  As well as planning our dream schools, we also learned a bit about architects, and we started looking at:  building design, structural issues:  compression, tension, bending, and finally, climate and geography in design. 


Our next challenge:  design a dream house and a 3 dimensional model, and present ideas to the team.