Behind the good old-fashioned fun there is teamwork, critical and creative thinking and personal and social capability skills.
There are links to the Science and HPE Curriculum plus riding them is so much fun! What more could you want from this camp activity.
Each crew must build their cart using real tools. Students are challenged to determine how the parts fit and work together, learning and understanding the mechanics and forces of the vehicle.
After a safety check, it’s time to roll down the hill.
In this activity, students develop critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems.
Critical thinking skills involve interpreting, analysing, evaluating, explaining, sequencing, reasoning, comparing, questioning, inferring, hypothesising, appraising, testing and generalising.
Creative thinking involves students learning to generate and apply new ideas in specific contexts, seeing existing situations in a new way, identifying alternative explanations, and seeing or making new links that generate a positive outcome.
Establishing and building positive relationships, making responsible decisions, working effectively in teams and handling challenging situations constructively are what camp is all about. All of these skills are called upon in this activity making it a unique and memorable experience.
Curriculum links include:
– Change to an object’s motion is caused by unbalanced forces, including Earth’s gravitational attraction, acting on the object (ACSSU117)
– Forces can be exerted by one object on another through direct contact or from a distance (ACSSU076)
– Participate positively in groups and teams by encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities (ACPMP067 – HPE Year 6
– Apply critical and creative thinking processes in order to generate and assess solutions to movement challenges (ACPMP068)
– Propose and apply movement concepts and strategies with and without equipment (ACPMP063)