Well done to St Mark’s pupils who took part in St Luke’s K’nex Challenge on Friday. Building with a variety of materials encourages play and early engineering skills. A few benefits include:
- fine motor skill development
- pattern making/understanding
- understanding of cause and effect (build…fall down…)
- principles of engineering including beams, columns and load
- impermanence–something that gets built eventually gets taken apart
- cooperation–if working with peers
- working with a variety of materials
- testing and experimentation
- creativity and design process
