The Breakout space!

Original post written by Phoenix

Our Breakout Space

What is the 'Breakout Space'?
The Breakout Space is a small space to 'Breakout' and have a area where it is just quiet and so you can produce more ideas. It is an area to give your brain a bit of a break.

The purpose of the Breakout Space we created was so you can get away from the noise and give your brain a break from the pressure.

What does the Breakout Space look like?

Here are a few photos...

This Is The Wall As You Enter

What is the purpose for the Creator Ops STEAM Room?

The why, written by Emma C

You may ask why we decided to make this room, well our class all thought it would be a great idea after a fascinating trip to the Mind Lab. Here is just some reasons why we did decided to make this room.

1. In the process of making the Creator Ops STEAM room would help teach us about measurement and all about the design process and is also a platform for learning about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths or STEAM.
2. As we are making this room we are using Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Feedback, what does Empathy mean? It means that you are able to understand what one another is feeling. What does Define mean? To break down a problem that you are having trouble with. What does Ideate mean? To brain storm and come up with some creative ideas. What does Prototype? It means to make more than one or to make a model of the thing that you are going to make but not the real thing. What does Feedback mean? It means to give positive and negative comments.
3. This Room will also help us to learn about our coding and learn to break down problems and situations that we might come across.  

 

Before and After

Original post by Samantha

Hello everyone we have had a busy start of the term and we have unpacked the furniture and arranged it all we have put together most of the robots and we have if you had seen the room before you wouldn't believe your eyes when you saw it now.

Before and After.

Hello everyone we have had a busy start of the term and we have unpacked the furniture and arranged it all we have put together most of the robots and we have if you had seen the room before you wouldn't believe your eyes when you saw it now.

Before

After

 


 

 
 
 

These are the 4 items that with be made into light shades.

A Hunua School Sign.

 

A bucket and the cutlery drainer.

A Fireman's Helmet.

Thanks for taking your time to read this blog see you next time on the Creator Ops Steam Blog. :-)

Design Thinking

Original post by Kaitlyn

Design Thinking As A Platform For Our Learning Hub

The Design Thinking Process

We used this Design Thinking Process as a platform when creating the Creator Ops STEAM.

Empathy, Ideate, Define, Prototype, Feedback

We used Empathy to learn about who would use the room when it is finished and the feeling in it
We used  Ideate to help us to plan and to help us visualize what the room would look like.
We used define to find out what the problem is and how we can solve it.
We used prototype to the room is our prototype
We used feedback to have peoples opinions on what we made

Why we choose the colours:
The bright colours are to keep us feeling happy and they stand out .
we didn't use odd colours because we used colours that all ages will enjoy

The design thinking proocess we all wanted it to be a learning environment where kids can do work so the design came.
 We thought we need a lot of tables for kids to sit on to write and draw on.
Chairs for them to sit on or go on their knees.
We have different sized tables for different needs we had to think about that when our design team where planning and buying things.
We have lily pads for on the ground or for our little tables.
We have medium seats for our medium tables we also thought about peoples back so they didn't get a sore back from being upright for a part of the day.

We found these really cool chairs that are like a stool but with a like circle plastics board underneath and it is able to rock  and lean in different directions.

Our big stools for our big two tables are again the colours are matching other needs in the room but are not the same.

Here are some photos of what the room look like :-)

Nearly There

Original post written by Samantha

We are so close to finishing the room all we have to do now is unpack the furniture. We are all so excited to see it finished.

Scratch as a Learning Tool For Coding

Original post written by Emma R

Scratch - it can be used for so many things but what is the purpose of Scratch for our learning hub?

Scratch... I love it. It can teach you the small basics of coding yet it seems so big - especially if you have big projects in mind like an animated series. It can teach you things outside and inside the Scratch world. You can use it to animate and design even the smallest things. Some examples:

All credit goes to their rightful owners - owners are music makers in projects and creators of projects. Sorry if all those crashed your computer or something :P Anyway...

Kids of all ages use Scratch. Teachers set up challenges and get their kids to complete them.

In our learning hub, we're going to use Scratch to learn to code, find new purposes of art, etc.

Scratch is SUCH an amazing community! The community, it has supporters, learners, all sorts but all use Scratch. I wouldn't want it to be anything different.

(From Room 3's Scratch expert, Emma R)

Further News and Update

Original post written by Justine Hughes

We are nearly finished and can't wait for the start of the year to explore, create, design and experiment!!  The carpet and vinyl are going down at the moment - along with a few challenges for the carpet layers!  The painting is almost complete and it looks amazing.

We're looking forward to sharing this with everyone in the New Year.