Little Bits Toy Fair 5B

Our recent summative assessment task gave us the perfect opportunity to collaboratively combine our creative talents with modern technology. You’re probably wondering about Littlebits. The official website describes them as making a ‘platform of easy to use electronic building blocks empowering everyone to create inventions, large and small.”

Our task was as follows:

You are working for a toy manufacturing company. Your company has a big order to introduce innovative toys for primary school children. However, it has a very small budget therefore decides to use recycled toys and materials to create new inventions. Use Little bits creatively to design and make a toy.

Our innovations were truly marvelous! The creativity and ingenuity of our students was displayed through the unique toys they produced. The groups also had to design and create a poster to explain the creative process from beginning to end. Each group had a checklist to guide them and this was a fantastic way of making sure everyone was focused and on task. We designed the checklist together as a class so our success criteria was accessible to everyone involved. This is the beauty of IB education. It promotes thinking and follow through based on real life experiences. The process as well as the final product were equally as important during this assignment as well as the ability to work with peers, respectfully,  effectively and fairly while taking account of different perspectives and points of view.

Overall, this learning experience was extremely meaningful and worthwhile. We had so much fun being inventors and working together.