Here is a new idea for you to consider when using the LEGO Duck Activity(if you don’t know the activity, then check the resources below) at the beginning of the school year. An idea I have shared with educators during my purposeful play workshops and sessions is to use the LEGO ducks to develop your classroom norms and operations.
After students have built their ducks, and you have held conversations about many paths leading to the “right answer”, having more than one right answer, and what does this all mean for our brain, you can then use the ducks to frame up classroom norms.
As you will hear in the video, you take a picture of all the ducks and use this to create a poster. Use tools like Adobe Spark or any other platform you like to use the image as a header or background. Have the students come up with a list of norms based on the activity and other conversations.
Developing a poster with norms such as this shows the students that their voice matters. They have a visual that their duck, their build, their answer is right. It creates a culture safe for them to tinker, play, design, and wonder.
You could even have them take each norm and build LEGO models of what each norm looks like in the learning space.
I hope this triggers some new thoughts of leveraging LEGO and other resources in your learning space to create a positive experience for your students.
Here is a Wakelet of LEGO Duck Resources for you to explore. These are different ways in which I have used the LEGO Duck concept in different settings in education.
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