Enabling Environments: Technology Workshop - Around the nursery - Assembly lines

Nursery World, 5 March 2008

The technology workshop can be amply stocked with simple and readily available resources and is an ideal area for adults to work alongside the children, as Jane Drake explains.

Photographs at Chapeltown Children's centre, Leeds, by Joan Russell. Provision in the technology workshop should enable children to work independently and creatively to design, assemble and join. For children to develop confidence and competency in this area, they need continuous access to a range of tools and materials. Practitioners should also offer appropriate support in order to help children to acquire necessary skills and to learn and explore useful techniques. RESOURCES...

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