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unconsumption: Students and staff at Newcastle University have created a pop-up cafe built entirely out of upcycled waste, including plastic drink bottles and cardboard boxes. The team spent three months designing and constructing the cross disciplinary project, which was contributed to by engineers, architects and social scientists. The U-Cafe was designed to challenge our perception of waste and explore new ways of creating sustainable buildings. It features chairs made from plastic bottles, walls constructed using cardboard boxes, and staff aprons made out of recycled plastic bags.  Via: Pop-Up Cafe Built Entirely Out Of Garbage [Video] - PSFK

unconsumption:

Students and staff at Newcastle University have created a pop-up cafe built entirely out of upcycled waste, including plastic drink bottles and cardboard boxes. The team spent three months designing and constructing the cross disciplinary project, which was contributed to by engineers, architects and social scientists.

The U-Cafe was designed to challenge our perception of waste and explore new ways of creating sustainable buildings. It features chairs made from plastic bottles, walls constructed using cardboard boxes, and staff aprons made out of recycled plastic bags.

 Via: Pop-Up Cafe Built Entirely Out Of Garbage [Video] - PSFK

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May21

gjmueller: Children’s Spatial Skills Seen as Key to Math Learning And, in a separate, ongoing study of nearly 500 preschoolers, Ms. Cameron found about a third tested high in both executive-function skills—such as following directions amid distractions—and visual-motor skills, such as cutting paper. Children who performed well in either or both executive-function and visual-motor skills achieved well in both math and reading achievement and class behavior later on in the early-elementary grades. “It’s the children who are low in both who are struggling,” Ms. Cameron said. The more quickly children become automatic in mentally coordinating an action or repeating a design, the more they can free up working memory and organize their thinking for more abstract problems. This explains a lot.

gjmueller:

Children’s Spatial Skills Seen as Key to Math Learning

And, in a separate, ongoing study of nearly 500 preschoolers, Ms. Cameron found about a third tested high in both executive-function skills—such as following directions amid distractions—and visual-motor skills, such as cutting paper. Children who performed well in either or both executive-function and visual-motor skills achieved well in both math and reading achievement and class behavior later on in the early-elementary grades.

“It’s the children who are low in both who are struggling,” Ms. Cameron said. The more quickly children become automatic in mentally coordinating an action or repeating a design, the more they can free up working memory and organize their thinking for more abstract problems.

This explains a lot.

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The low labyrinth at Naga City Eco Park, Philippines. No problem for the taller, older students; but you can hear the 7 and 8 yr olds, in their high pitched voices yelling, “Where’s the EXIIIIT?!?!?”

The low labyrinth at Naga City Eco Park, Philippines.
No problem for the taller, older students; but you can hear the 7 and 8 yr olds, in their high pitched voices yelling, “Where’s the EXIIIIT?!?!?”

#field trip

May16

Here’s to the schools that advertise different kinds of society, and more cheers to the schools who encourage students to create, change, and reform their own societies.

Here’s to the schools that advertise different kinds of society, and more cheers to the schools who encourage students to create, change, and reform their own societies.

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May15