Last February 10, Grade 1 classrooms turned into lively spaces of discovery, creativity, and collaboration as the learners participated in an engaging, station-based learning. Six parent-volunteers guided the students through three different classrooms that each serves as a unique hands-on station: Read Aloud, Arts and Crafts, and Redesigning Inventions.

The activity investigated the transdisciplinary theme “Where We Are in Place and Time,” focused on the central idea “Inventions change the world.” Through varied and interactive experiences, the learners explored three important inventions: the lightbulb, telephone, and airplane.

In the Read-Aloud Station, parents shared engaging nonfiction stories about Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers, who are the inventors of the light bulb, the telephone, and the airplane, respectively. The students listened attentively, asked questions, and made connections between past innovations and modern life.