"Making of toys and learning through them using activity sheets has cognitive advantages in the form process-based learning as well non-cognitive benefits such as fine motor training; acquisition of coordination skills; enhancement of attentiveness; and better mental health through structured play, Further, at the upper primary level, toys can linked to talking about science and process-based learning of basic science concepts," said Jaipur based educator-researcher Dr Lalit Kishore [1] whose paper "Toys and process-based physics learning at elementary school level: Development and institutionalisation of an innovative initiative" got selected for 17th IAPT Convention.
According to Kishore (2002). it is through structured and institutionalised science activity-sheets incorporating simple children-made toys, showed the way of learning science and designing thinking. According to him, activity-sheets are must to systematise and institutionalize science instruction a elementary school level. Toys provide experience in material manipulation and designing along with learning science and technology literacy.
Reference
[i] Kishore, L. (2002). Toys and process-based physics learning at elementary school level: Development and institutionalisation of an innovative initiative 17th IAPT Convention & Theme Symposium, Gulbarga: Sharanabasaveshra College of Science, p.26
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