Science Week: Eureka, It All Starts with an Idea! 小学科学周：从一个想法开始！

This week, Yew Chung International School of Beijing Primary students poured their creative energies into a topic not commonly associated with abstract thinking – science. Yet, during Primary Science Week, students became junior inventors as they were tasked with designing, building, testing and exhibiting their own imaginative creations.

上周，北京耀中国际学校小学生们将他们所有的创意都灌注到科学这个话题上。在小学科学周，学生们成为了初级的发明家，完成了各种不可能的任务，如设计、建造、测试、以及展现自己创意设计的展品。

Taking the theme “Eureka, It All Starts with an Idea!”, this year’s Primary Science Week also took a project-based learning approach, as students were given a great amount of freedom to discover, and subsequently follow, their curiosities. Teachers provided feedback and frameworks, but, after receiving the challenge (such as “create a flying machine”), students then had to follow their prompt through to completion.

今年小学科学周的主题是“从一个想法开始”，采用了项目式的学习途径。学生们可以自由地去发现，并追随他们好奇的想法。老师则提供回馈和框架。学生们获得了各自的挑战项目之后（如“创造一个会飞的机器”），就会根据提示完成整个项目。

Below, Year 1 Co-Teacher Harry Chambers discusses more about Primary Science Week, including what soft skills students practised during the inventing process and tips for parents who would like to do this project with their own children at home.

下面一年级老师Harry Chambers 将和大家讨论小学的科学周，谈谈创作的过程会培养学生的哪些软技能，并提及家长如何在家里和孩子一起完成这个项目。

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