CATALYSTS "THE CHANGE LEADERS"

DREAM BIG
AHAD NYAZ
The most significant part in visiting the Ontario Science Centre was watching the inspiring
movie Dream Big. An engineer was teaching students how to build earthquake-resistant
buildings, wind-resistant building and building bridges using simple material. The most
amazing part was applying the solving problems methodology and projects, by involving
students in a certain problem, she played a video of a truck crossing a bridge and the bridge
collapsed, then she asked the students to help her choosing the right shape to build the bridge
and the results students gradually progressed.
That reminded me when my first-grade daughter returned back to me once after school in Great
Britain and told me “I know how to make doubles!! And also, halves!!” I was shocked, how
could you? Actually, I tested her by asking her few questions and she was absolutely right, they
learned how to double the number by projects, they made a ladybird and a butterfly and started
putting dots in the first wing and put the same number of dots in the other wing and that was
how they learned doubling! They used the same idea to learn to divide by dividing the fishes into
two aquariums!!
I now emphasize the importance of using projects in delivering lessons to students, using solving
problems methodology with opening the space to students to enquiry.
The students worth the honour of meaningful learning.