The year 4 teacher had viewpoints on different methods for engaging students in the activities. For instance, he used accessible equipment for demonstrating concepts about 3D shapes and tried to relate the shapes to real-world examples. The teacher wrote: “Tried to use equipment like a metal pencil case at student’s desk to help predict where weak/strong points may be found in this particular shape” and “Had students look at other real-life and nearby shapes to see commonly used shapes and also those not so common”. These viewpoints facilitated an initiative for making the activity more relatable to the real world by having “students dress up for the day as further novelty and to gain further enthusiasm”. Indeed, the students and the teacher were dressed in commando-mission attire (army camouflage green and black) as “some attempt to provide a scenario/setting – though I would like to do more with this next time e.g., more interactive and use of video/characters”.