Making Space Holy - Kohelet Prize

Categories:
Development of Critical and / or Creative Thinking, Interdisciplinary Integration

Subject(s) of entry:
History, Mishnah, Tanach, Engineering, Engineering Design

Pedagogy:
Constructivist, IBL - inquiry based learning, PBL - project based learning

Grade(s) to which this was taught:
4, Elementary school

Grade(s) for which this will be useful:
4, 5, 6, Elementary school, Middle school

Fourth Grade students were challenged to transform the school's maker space into a full-scale Mishkan. Students self-organized to design and build the various components of the Mishkan using limited materials, tools, and resources. These constraints intentionally mimicked the design challenges faced by the Israelites.

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This entry has been tagged with the following terms:

co-teaching, Collaboration, constructionist, Engineering, engineering design, Kohelet Prize 2016-17, maker, maker education, Makerspace, Portland Jewish Academy, Student centered learning, student-directed learning,