We had a great episode today as part of our weekly "Let's Invent!" series! We invited one of our favorite people, Liam Nilsen on our show. Liam is a LEGO learning experience specialist and he shared his new idea for learning through play called "Story City." 

#StoryCity is based on the idea that children can make buildings at home out of craft materials, and we can connect their stories by compiling them all in one place! (Liam is working on the Story City community webpage!) 

Check out the details in our webisode below:

Share Your Story City!

• On Twitter and Instagram with #StoryCity hashtag

Links Liam Shared:

• Mohammed Qutaish's Paper Aleppo on Vice
• Bodys Isek Kingelez Artwork at the MoMA
• VR version of Mohammed's Future Aleppo
• StoryCity.land Page (Coming Soon)
• Build a City, Tell a Story
• Learning Through Play at Home Story City video by Liam and LEGO Foundation
• Making Engineering Playful in Schools

More Example Projects:

• Scale Model of Manhattan from Recycled Computer Parts-shared by Zoom participant
• Scratch Project of Colleen's 11 YO's Story City
• Video of Scratch Animation connected to a hand crafted Story City in the real world!

• Interactive Poster Scratch Project - This is a lesson we are working on that will be coming to our how to page as part of our "At Home" Learning for students.  

Join Us Next Week!

Join us next week as we team up with Strawbees to create chain reactions with everyday materials from home. We want to encourage you to keep learning through play at home. Bring your Makey Makey, and some household materials and we will make chain reactions together!

When: Apr 28, 2020 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Topic: Let's Invent! with Makey Makey (brought to you by Joylabz Invention Media)

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