CHILD NATON is an innovative digital platform for children aged 7 to 11 years. Its interactive adventures guide children through immersive creative experiences of their real school environment. Children are dropped into an imaginative zone where their own feelings, observations and ideas are used to personalise their adventures.
Child Nation is facilitated by classroom teachers with simple materials provided in a mail-delivered box and supplemented by those found in the classroom.
Fun set-ups prompt physical exploration of a zone designated by each teacher. Carrying their materials in a Child Nation tote-bag, they wander with their device and enter answers to simple questions which are used to customised their adventure. Each different adventure draws on a different art form and results in an expected outcome.
Children enter an uninhibited imaginative zone to see their places and themselves differently from the conventional perspectives of the adults around them. There are no right or wrong answers, they go at their own pace, and every decision is validated.
Choose from ten EXCITING adventures to explore DIFFERENT learning areas.
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Self-Awareness & Identity
Build your students' confidence by giving them opportunities to quietly and playfully reflect on who They are.
Understanding Different Cultures & Ways of Seeing
Immerse students in imaginary cultures with their own belief systems, to develop understanding from the inside.
School Connection & Belonging
Enable imaginative responses to your school campus including the building of site-based worlds, and a strong feeling of personal connection and responsibility.
Nature Connection
Drop students into an imaginative zone where nature is animated and alive.
Idea drafting & Story Building
Ideas feel so easy when simple choices and answers at each step culminate in original content such as stories, letters, poems and scripts.
Empathy
Listen to and understand the perspective of non-human things, to actively practice seeing the world differently.
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WHAT YOU GET
1. One year of access to 10 x Child Nation school adventures.
2. Access to the teacher guide, curriculum link info, a short explainer video and downloadable worksheets.
3. Link to a fun PowerPoint introduction that guides teachers and children simultaneously through their first session. It feels like having an artist in the classroom.
4. A mail delivered kits to be shared between classes containing;
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28 re-usable tote bags,
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28 re-usable small bottles,
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one large ball of string,
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table top signage,
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a hard copy of the teacher guide,
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28 student login cards.
WHY CHILD NATION?
AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM CAPABILITIES
CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING
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Generating ideas, possibilities and actions
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Reflecting on thinking processes
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CAPABILITY
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Self-awareness
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Self-management
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Social awareness
INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
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Recognising culture and developing respect.
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Empathising with others.
ENGLISH
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Creating texts
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Expressing and developing ideas
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Creating literature
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
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Exploring systems with different purposes
HOW IT WORKS
FIRST SESSION
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Classroom teacher uses the PowerPoint to introduce key themes, guide discussion and give instructions in a first 45 minute session.
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Each child uses their own device to login and chooses an adventure from the collection of ten.
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When they begin, the adventure prompts them to collect their tote bag and materials, that have been laid out by the teacher.
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They wander the school grounds and complete one adventure in private.
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The adventure prompts them to return to the classroom.
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The teacher hands the child a post-journey worksheet.
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Once all returned, the class re-groups for discussion and reflection.
Child Nation can be used throughout the year;
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To explore specific foci such as story development, identity, mindfulness, empathy, responsibility, nature connection. All students undertake the same adventure, then participate in teacher directed discussions.
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As a idea generation tool making it easy for students to develop content for stories, letters, poetry, scripts etc.
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As a reward or end of term activity,
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As a focusing activity for individual children who need time out of the classroom. Note that Child Nation has been endorsed highly by neuro-diverse students and their educators.
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Speak to trees
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Write a note to the sky
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Rename your school
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Scribe a window-graffiti poem with whiteboard markers
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Turn an apple and a paper clip into an artwork
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Make up a conversation between a pencil and a chair
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Try out an opposite self
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Imagine an invisible society
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Make a chalk map on the concrete
TESTIMONIALS
"Children are encouraged to look at things differently, to develop a sense of curiosity and to respond in ways that are different from the usual... It's a beautiful way for children to make sense of the world around them."
Heidi Chapman-Foehn,
Year 3-6 teacher,
"I personally observed how effective it was to remove school boundaries/structures that ordinarily limit the students' creativity e.g. freely roaming the school, responding to open-ended questions which actively encouraged them to think for themselves or re-imagine who they are."
Gillian Baxter,
Cluster Engagement in Learning Leader
St. Bernadette's and St. Peter's Catholic Primary Schools, Sunshine Victoria
"It taps into a different part of their brain, so it gave them opportunities to explore different modes of thinking that they probably haven’t had opportunities to develop within the class. I saw some children become so enthusiastic for the first time. As a teacher it actually made me reflect on how I can access children that are usually difficult to engage."
Tamara Moravski
Year 3&4 classroom leader & teacher,
builds place attachment
Individual imaginative responses to your school environment builds place connection.
customised to SCHOOLS
Content customised to school environments.
FUN
More than 2000 children between 7 and 11 years of age, give Child Nation a 4.5/5 fun rating.
interactive and individualised
Let children speak about how they see things, with their own typed answers to fun questions shaping a customised experience.
gives children agency
Draw children in to an experience that shifts the hierarchy of knowledge and empowers them as the expert.
artist made content
Access to the most contemporary artistic thinking, with adventures made by diverse artists around the world.