The Imagination Playground consists of over-sized, architectural scale foam blocks that children can use to build anything they can imagine. 

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

“Imagination Playground”

1. Objective: To facilitate the concept of unstructured play and cooperative learning. To play with a purpose.
2. Materials: Large Foam Blocks, Book “Nurture Shock” by Po Bronson explaining the purpose of the Imagination Playground for the teacher.
3. Input: Demonstration. Visual input. Directions for objective.
4. Modeling: Use the correct blocks and put them in the correct order. Model how to agree on what the plan will be on what we decide to build and how to get there.
5. Guided Practice: Come up with a plan on what we would like to build, together with half the class and the teacher. Then switch and have the teacher practice with the other half of the class.
6. Independent Practice: Students come up with a plan on what to build on their own. Teacher can facilitate if needed. Then students put the pieces together.
7. Closure: Discuss as a class what worked and what did not work during independent practice. Have students state objectives and what they learned.
8. Extended Activity: Have students write in their journals about what they liked best during their time spent in the “Imagination Playground”.
   

The Lanai TIIP project will encourage students to use Imagination Playground pieces to build structures that can be used during free-style play as well as more formalized activities.  Students practice team work as they collaborate on building, then figure out how to play together with what they have created. 

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