**6.4 Social metacognition**

The theme with the second least amount of frequency of response was social metacognition with 11 responses (14%). Responses were included within this theme if the students reflected on the process involved with working and communicating with others. For example, one student stated: "We worked together as a team. I saw that people in my group were all doing a good job." Another student stated: "As a group we made a crane. We all had different things to do. I had was able to put the glue dots on the TechCard." Responses that involved group work and collaboration were coded in the Social Metacognition category.

## **6.5 Concrete to abstract thinking**

The theme with the least amount of frequency of response involved concrete to abstract thinking with eight responses (10%). Responses within this category involved students using the concrete prototype to describe abstract concepts. When the students were reflecting on the experience then the student had the chance to hold the concrete object to help with the explanation. One student stated: "Let me show you how this works." Another student said, "Watch this!" Whenever a student referenced the concrete object when explaining abstract ideas then the response was categorized as concrete to abstract thinking.
