Real-world STEAM Connection and Problem definition

Children like to play in the park. However, the city or village street is something else entirely. Especially if you want to play! We live in different environments that are deliberately constructed to meet specific criteria that enable usefulness, ease of use and safety. Together with the children, we explore 2 such environments, the street and the park. In these we discover e.g. that the park is aimed at relaxation and play but also safety how to make all that possible. By looking critically at our own environment, we discover these landscape elements and clear choices in designing an environment or a landscape. After this, we want to design our own landscape by means of a collage. But how do you get all this on your drawing sheet and make sure that the landscape is right? In this Steam activity, students are also given tools to solve this problem because representing a space, a landscape on your drawing sheet is not that easy. There are many critical choices to make.