Thick or Thin Questions

How many parents actually leave their kids at the risky park in New York? What are the best loose parts for a lunchtime playground? Who is going to be allowed to play with the stuff out of our container and how will we set up the stuff everyday or will it already be set up? Do we have a shipping container in our school to do the same things that the kids in New York did? Why do adults think that a loose parts playground is good for kids?

How do loose parts spark imagination and creativity? We wonder what gave the school/people the idea to have the shipping container with stuff in it? What is a loose parts playground? Where do the loose parts come from? How many people would use the area and materials to build and create something?

Will we paint the crate? Are we going to use the blank space near our shipping container to create stuff? Why did the people in the video not allow the parents in the play ground? What are they building? Will the shipping container we have outside become a new ‘maker space’ for kids at lunch or sessions?

Are they working as a team or not? How are the adults going to keep an eye on all the children to make sure they are safe? Are the kids responsible for loose parts play? Are the things they make permanent? Do they have a limit to the amount of kids?

Would the kids have fights over the materials? Why are the kids in the video so young and using tools? I wonder what loose parts could be in a loose parts playground? &nbsp;Do the kids have roles or do the children do all the jobs?&nbsp; What they are planning on making and how will they share them?

Thick or Thin Questions. Which will be best to guide our research?

&nbsp;How many children could use loose parts from a shipping container? What might we have in our container? Do the children have an idea of what they are going to do or are they just experimenting? What makes a loose parts playground work well? How many people are using the parts?

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