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Toy Take Apart

11/5/2014

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I bought a few used toys at a garage sale recently in the hopes of designing a Toy Take Apart lesson for students.  As with most projects, I first test out the process to find any areas where students might have difficulty or might find something interesting to delve into.

The "Monkey Chase" toy I bought seemed to be the perfect candidate for a Todd McLellan style photo, which I created by taking apart the toy as much as possible, arranging the parts on a white background and then taking a photo and labeling the number of pieces (97).  

I'm now thinking that instead of just having students take apart toys, it could be educational and creative for them to take them apart, discuss what the various parts are and how they function, and then create a similar photo.  There's also the possibility of re-using toy parts (for example, the arms at the top of my photo) to create new toys or robotic figures using programmable microprocessors.
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    Tatian Greenleaf is the Design, Tinkering and Technology Intergrator at Mark Day School.

    David St. Martin is the Tinkerer in Residence at Mark Day School.

    Bonnie Nishihara is the
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