Making a volcano

This activity came from a child's interest. He had been learning about volcano's at home. 

This led to researching volcano's on the iPad, which went onto us making our own volcano......  

Playing and Exploring

Being willing to ‘have a go’

• Initiating activities

•Seeking challenge

•Showing a ‘can do’ attitude

•Taking a risk, engaging in new experiences, and learning by trial and error

Active Learning

Being involved and concentrating

•Maintaining focus on their activity for a period of time

•Not easily distracted

•Paying attention to details

Creating and Thinking Critically

Having their own ideas

•Thinking of ideas

•Finding ways to solve problems

•Finding new ways to do things

Creating and Thinking Critically

Choosing ways to do things

•Planning, making decisions about how to approach a task, solve a problem and reach a goal

•Checking how well their activities are going

•Changing strategy as needed        

•Reviewing how well the approach worked