If you find yourself on the second floor of the lower school midday each Friday you are apt to hear the rustling of tools and the tapping of hammers in the fourth grade classrooms. In two, six week sessions, Lower School Assistant Teacher, Zach Posnan will be working with 4th graders in the newly formed Tinkering Club where students have the opportunity to take apart devices and appliances large and small, to see how they work. Getting tools in the hands of children is a powerful way of teaching them how things work and builds confidence at the same time. Girls and boys make up equal membership ing the club. According to Posnan, so many students wanted to participate, that he needed to run two sections of the club suggesting that interest in mechanical thinking, engineering, and experimentation in the age of hand held devices and screens is alive and well.
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