Makerspace at Stonybrook Middle School is tapping into the creativity and imagination centres of Grade 5 and 6 students.
Teacher Trevor Neufeld says the class presents students with a challenge and offers them the opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge in areas of creating projects and problem-solving. Neufeld says the projects are related to a set curriculum or task outcome and skills learned are transferable to Grade 7 and 8 Industrial Arts classes.
“Students often notice things that I don’t. I think I’m often expecting a set outcome and it’s possibly because, if it’s a project I’ve completed a few times, I feel like I know what will happen. Students will sometimes do things differently then I will want them to or expect them to, which can end up with a good result and have extra learning that I didn’t know they would have.”
Grade 5 student Nate Neufeld says…
