Australian designers make Lego toys to help children understand "agriculture"

Chinanews.com, June 12th, Australian Open published an article saying that many young Australians feel confused when they decide on their future careers. Only a small number of people will choose agriculture as their career for a lifetime. Aimee Snowden from the NSW township, in order to change the way young people think about farming, she skillfully used Lego toys to design an educational program called Little Brick Pastoral, which is now introduced in many elementary schools in NSW. The project, through Lego toys, allows primary school students to fully understand what agriculture is.

The article is excerpted as follows:

Lego farm project is fun and educational

Snowden, from the small town of Tocumwal, NSW, hopes that through his Little Brick Pastoral project, more young Australians will consider agriculture as a future career, so she chooses to use Lego toys and photos to make students, teachers and What do adults learn about Australian agriculture? "The main reason we chose to use Lego toys is that we know that this will cause a lot of connections," Snowden said.

In 2014, Snowden wanted to use Lego to shoot a group of photos about the farm. As a result, she found that there was no image of a peasant in Lego's character, so she decided to make it herself. Later, Snowden used a camera to take a photo of a group of LEGO toys related to farm life and shared it with friends, family and people who are engaged in agriculture. “My photos are like miniature photography, using props to tell stories about what happened on the farm,” Snowden said. “I think people might think, 'Don't play anymore, you are 24 years old,' But that's how I started my project like this."

According to the report, Snowden first took pictures of some farmers, then made them into Lego characters, and then used these characters and props to shoot a lot of photos of the scenes reflecting the life of the farmer. Through these photos, he told people about what kind of agriculture is. Career. Sometimes, Snowden presses the shutter a few times to get the photo he wants, but sometimes it takes a week to complete, but Snowden thinks it's worth the time. “It turns out that my project has played a positive role,” Snowden said. “Now our project is being used for education and career planning, and I am very excited about it.”

Has been promoted in many places in NSW

According to reports, when Snowden explained the diversity of agricultural work to the children, a child said that they knew the word diversity, but did not know its specific meaning, so Snowden wanted to show them different agricultural work. Then Little Brick Pastoral was born. “It (Little Brick Pastoral) broke the view that farming is a peasant,” Snowden said. “We have some girls in our workshops. I think this also breaks the belief that agriculture is a profession for boys. Concept."

At present, NSW Department of Primary Industries has become one of Little Brick Pastoral's partners, and they have also collaborated to launch an educational resource called On the Pulse to provide farms for many elementary schools in NSW. Lego toys, these toys contain a lot of agricultural knowledge, such as how to sow, if harvesting. “Children are very interested in agriculture, but sometimes information about agriculture is difficult to communicate to elementary and high schools, so that children can make agriculture a future career, but Little Brick Pastoral is a good way to attract people to farm. Snowden said.