Project Ideas for Kids

Hi everyone, my name is Winnie. I'm a teacher and a relieving assistant principal in a primary school in Sydney, and this is a really fun, engaging, and interactive project idea for kids ages from 5 to 12. So I'm going to show you what this idea is so that you can do this at home too. All right, so this idea came from when we needed to do some remote learning, and I was thinking, you know, what What projects are there that we can implement so that kids are, you know, engaged? And they can also use this as an opportunity to, you know, share their knowledge because they already know a lot already. So why not use that knowledge and skill and why not give them an opportunity to share that with others? And also, you know, give them a chance to interact with other kids as well, especially at this time where kids need a lot of interaction. Amongst all the, all of the isolation. So this is the project here. So the project is, so they're learning to communicate clearly with each other. And the reason is because they're going to be using their knowledge and skills to teach other kids. So their task would be to record a video of them sharing their knowledge or skill or something that they have learned, and then they could upload it. So as the the parent, you can decide, you know, if you want to upload it, if you want to just share the— make the video and share it with just friends and family. If you do upload it onto YouTube, etc., you can decide on the privacy settings. So you can have the video on private, you could have it unlisted and just give out the link to friends and family, or you can make it public. So you decide on the privacy settings. As an educator, I asked my students to upload to Google Classroom, where all of the Year 3, 4 students were on it, all the teachers were on it. I also invited other, you know, Year 5, 6 teachers to go on it, learning and support teachers, other assistant principals, a principal as well, so that the kids had a wider audience so that they could, you know, share their knowledge and skills to other kids and also teachers and principals as well. And I So I got them to share it on ClassDojo, and you can also share it on Seesaw as well so that parents can see it as well. And if you're an educator and also a parent, then I've also got videos on, you know, how to give feedback and how to use Google Classroom. So they're in the links below if you need them. So in this project, kids get to pick whatever, you know, what they want to share. So for example, in reading, they could read their favorite picture book and then give the audience some questions to answer. If it's, you know, something from writing, then they could write the most interesting sentence and show other people how to write the most interesting sentence or how to create a picture book. Or if they wanted to pick something from math, they could, you know, teach other people how to tell time or how to add two numbers together. Or they could do an informative video on a country of their choice. For geography, they could do their own yoga video, they could teach others a dance, they could do their own fitness video to their favorite songs. So lots of ideas and, you know, other ideas could be they could show other people how to look after your pet or how to cook a dish or how to reduce plastic in their home, etc. So, you know, gave— this project gives students a lot of ownership and also kids a lot of ownership so that they can pick and choose their own passions and, you know, share their knowledge and skills with each other. And parents, if you do want to use the criteria that I've given my kids, then it's also in the link below as well. So this is the criteria. You can choose to use it or not. But it does go through, you know, in the introduction of your video, what you might need, or if you are using communication skills, what you might need. In the conclusion, you could you know, give your audience a quiz question or a question to answer so that they can interact with you in the comments below. So that's there if you want to use it for your own kids at home. So these are some of the project videos that my kids created for each other. Some of the kids did how to do taekwondo, how to make a bouncy egg, how to play the ukulele, how to make edible slime, how to care for a cat. How to, you know, do pull-ups even. So lots of opportunities for kids at home to make videos and, you know, share their knowledge and skills with each other. So one thing I was really impressed with was the creativity. There were kids who dressed up, there were kids who, you know, did their own math shows. They collaborated with their friends and family, so they got their siblings involved. They were so positive when they were posting up videos for each other and a lot of kids, you know, posted really positive and encouraging comments, which is great. And also the interaction. So the kids who concluded with a question for their audience, the audience were able to, you know, comment below and try to answer their questions. So this is a great project to do at home. It's an idea that you can use. The links and the resources will be down below in the description. Feel free to use it. It's also editable as well, so you can edit it or you can use it as is. So it's just an idea that you can use. Yeah, and it just created a really, you know, highly engaging and positive environment where kids were able to interact and share and learn from each other. So if you would like to do this at home, then parents, you know, go for it. I did a survey on kids who did this project and they said that they loved Showing what they knew and what they love doing and being creative and learning from other kids, trying new things and knowing that there's no right or wrong. So yeah, and then I also asked kids for, you know, what advice would you give to other kids who are making their own video for the first time for this project? And a lot of them said, you know, don't be nervous, you know, have a confident stance, speak loudly, You know, don't be shy, watch other people's videos for inspiration, use humor, use hand gestures, you know, and stay happy, try your best, and have lots of fun. So yeah, lots of advice here. And I'll put that in the link below as well. If your kids are— if you are wanting your kids to also do this project too, so there's advice from other kids. That they can learn from too. So, that's the link in the description below. You can comment below, you know, what activities have you given to your kids to keep them engaged? What advice and tips would you like to know from an educator? And, you know, share your thoughts and comments below. And thanks for watching, and don't forget to subscribe for more videos. I'm hoping to post up some more videos for parents on, you know, how to help their kids at home. You can find me at Miss Winnie Tang on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Thank you very much for watching. I hope this was helpful. And subscribe to, yeah, all my social media. So thank you everyone. See you in my next video. Bye.