Playing with ramps can enable children to develop in all three of the Characteristics of Effective Learning.
Giving children the tools that they need to create and adjust ramps can mean that they ‘play and explore’ while investigating the relationship between cause and effect, as well as forces. They can be ‘active learners’ who concentrate and persist when they encounter difficulties, such as if a certain resource keeps falling off the ramp and they find a solution through trial and error.
Children can demonstrate their abilities to ‘create and think critically’ as they come up with their own ideas. Sometimes children use our multilevel stands with planks to build ramps, but other times children use their own creative ideas using resources such as our large hollow building blocks.
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