Bringing tinkering to secondary school: cranky contractions

Tinkering is an innovative learning approach that involves creating physical things using diverse tools, materials, ideas and methods. Discover how it can be used to playfully encourage learners to pursue a project, idea, or personal goal according to their interests and personal motivations!

Tinkering can be a useful and playful way to let students discover their personal interests and develop new skills within the STEM pedagogy. This resource has been designed to help teachers integrate the Tinkering approach and the Science Capital framework in their practice aiming to implement a more inclusive science learning. It encompasses a methodological approach and the relative theoretical framework, deepening the Science Capital Teaching approach (1st part) and providing for examples and activities to be performed at school (2nd part). The activities are selected among the ones designed by the first European project dedicated to Tinkering and the ones designed by the Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium of San Francisco.

"Bridging tinkering to school" is a resource developed within the "Tinkering: Building Science Capital for ALL" Project” (2017-1-IT02-KA201-036513), funded with support from the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Teachers can discover tinkering and its prerogatives via an introductory overview of the approach focusing on the Science Capital. In the second part of the booklet they will find Tinkering activities identified and tested by the project partners, in order to be able to replicate them at school.