IT provides opportunities for developing enquiry, exploration and for following children's interests
- Friends drop-in. Children explore and play with technological toys as their parents have a chance to chat.
- Metal detectors are encouraging these children to problem solve together. One is using the detector to find buried treasure and the other helps out by digging.
- Children sometimes love to cover over a while image and then make it reappear like 'magic' by using the large IWB rubber. Here a child uses very fine motor skills as she makes sure none of the image is showing through.
- Digital microscopes are a great tool for children to look more closely at objects they collect.
- This child is using a Bee-Bot independently in her play outdoors. Playing outdoors can sometimes provide children with greater space from adults and more room to explore and practice on their own. This can increase some children's confidence and sense of independence.
- Will the Bee-Bot go through the tunnel? Always a tense moment!
- Problem solving. This Bee-Bot can go up the slope, but can it carry a trailer? This example shows how necessary it is for children to be able to collect what they need independently. Here a trailer and string were collected by the child so that he could put his idea to the test.
- Painting at an IWB.
- This boy laughs with delight as he makes the Bee-Bot move across his construction.
