us for Music Monday. >>> jaciel cordoba: Whats the best way to get kids excited about education? Its a question teachers and parents usually ask themselves. >> eve tannery: In Life Lessons, WFMZs Nancy Werteen looks at an innovative local idea. >>Nancy: When you watch kids play-they usually bring a lot of excitement and creative energy to their ideas. But how do you translate that to a structured education? Allentowns Swain School is toying with an innovative idea to do just that.>>Nancy: What are these kids so fired up about? IT's something they're learning that has them talking. The school put classes on hold for a week so the kids could do innovative hands on projects like building a speaker.>>NAt Sound: :29 if you look on the inside you can see that yellow coil that goes down the middle?">>NAncy: The kids learned how to do it and then put their hands to the test. >>Nat Sound: 22:55 music playing>>Nancy: And the speakers really work! >>Andrew j. Katz / Associate Head for Academics at Swain School: 6:39 Kids are learning to work together, they're learning to be creative and they're learning to fail which is something i don't think we do often enough in school. 6:49 >>NAncy: Administrators feel this type of hands on learning-things like discovering the science of ice cream and building a friendly monster are things that can have a lifelong impact on middle school kids-especially girls who sometimes shy away from math and science at this age. >>Andrew j. Katz / Associate Head for Academics at Swain School: 8:09 By shifting the model and providing them with opportunities to get their hands dirty with real science technology engineering and math programs i think we can do a better job at capturing their attention. 8:22>>Leili Thomas/5th grade: 10:53 In science we just learned about sound waves and i think this helps us get it stuck in our brains even more. 11:01 >>Aedryss Benkrid/6th grade: 21:05 The best part was that you had to read the steps and you had to do it yourself, it's not done for you so you actually found out how to make it. 21:13>>NAncy: They call it innovation week and hope the kids and the teachers walk away energized. >>Andrew j. Katz : 8:52 at swain we're doing a lot of this but i think this really pushes that agenda a little bit and really lets teachers and students feel ownership over their own learning. 9:00 >>Nancy: Administrators at Swain say they are so happy with the program, they hope to expand it next
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