School Experiences | Child Nation 1

CREATIVE
EXPERIENCES
THAT IMPROVE WELLBEING

CHILD NATION is a library of interactive adventures that guide children through creative and immersive experiences, drawing out their imaginative capabilities in response to the world around them.

It celebrates their unique and quirky ideas, gives them permission to be themselves and switches on their senses a to improve identity, independence and belonging.

Each of ten different adventures guide children to wander their school grounds within a boundary set by their teacher. They enter answers based on personal ideas and observations, and have their content incorporated into an evolving story-like experience.

During the experience, children enter an uninhibiited imaginative zone and engage with their familiar surroundings in novel ways that challenge the conventional perspectives of adults. There are no right or wrong answers, they go at their own pace, and every decision is validated.

Child Nation improves CREATIVE THINKING.
Child Nation helps children develop INDEPENDENCE.
Child Nation develops feeling of BELONGING.
Child Nation improves SELF-AWARENESS and explores IDENTITY.
Child Nation enables experiences of EMPATHY.
Child Nation can be used for IDEA GENERATION AND DRAFTING.
Child Nation is a fun LITERACY TOOL.

Child Nation is facilitated by the classroom teacher with simple materials provided in the accompanying box, supplemented by those found in the classroom.

DEMO

PRICING

TEACHER GUIDE

schoolvideo

ADVENTURES FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

WHAT WE PROVIDE

A mail-delivered Child Nation kit including materials, desk-top signage and a set of 25 small tote bags to be shared with up to 3 classes. (Some materials already found in classrooms are required).
Access to the teacher guide, curriculum link info, a short explainer video and worksheets.
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. One year of access to 10 x Child Nation school adventures.

WHY CHILD NATION?

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM CAPABILITIES

CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING

Generating ideas, possibilities and actions
Reflecting on thinking processes

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CAPABILITY

Self-awareness
Self-management
Social awareness

INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

Recognising culture and developing respect.
Empathising with others.

ENGLISH

Creating texts
Expressing and developing ideas
Creating literature

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Exploring systems with different purposes

VICTORIAN CURRICULUM

SCOTTISH CURRICULUM

HOW IT WORKS

FIRST SESSION

Classroom teacher uses the PowerPoint to introduce key themes, guide discussion and give instructions in a first 45 minute session.
Each child uses their own device to login and chooses an adventure from the collection of ten.
When they begin, the adventure prompts them to collect their tote bag and materials, that have been laid out by the teacher.
They wander the school grounds and complete one adventure in private.
The adventure prompts them to return to the classroom.
The teacher hands the child a post-journey worksheet.
Once all returned, the class re-groups for discussion and reflection.

THEN Child Nation can be used throughout the year;

To explore specific foci such as storytelling, identity, mindfulness, empathy, responsibility, nature connection, or creative thinking. All students undertake the same adventure, then participate in teacher directed discussions.
As a reward or end of term activity,
As a focusing activity for individual children who need time out of the classroom.

Speak to trees
Write a note to the sky
Scribe window-graffiti poem with whiteboard markers
Turn an apple and a paper clip into an artwork
Make up a conversation between a pencil and a chair
Try out an opposite self
Imagine an invisible society
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."

Art years 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,
Engagement in Learning Leader

"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."

Year 3&4 classroom teacher,
Albion, Victoria