Week 3 - Design Brief and Games, Games and More Games!

Design Brief

Investigate Design Problem Analyse Evaluate

Design Brief

Today we produced a design brief.

Problem: 

• Design a frog that jumps using the materials provided

Resources:

• Picture of Frog,
• Card
• Sticky tape
• Rubber Band

Investigate/Design:

Ideas

• Stick the frog to the card for more weight
• Using card as a springboard
• Use the rubber band as a slingshot and propel the frog

Produce:

• Stuck rubber band to card



The finished product!

• Stuck sticky tape to frog to increase weight of frog
• Use the rubber band as a sling shot

Evaluation

• Frog jumps in a forward motion
• Could have put more sticky tape on the frog to get more weight and therefore the frog would have been propelled further.

This activity is a great way of students experiencing a design process, it will assist children in understanding that there are sometimes more than 1 right answer to a problem and it is a great way for students to share learning's and ideas.

Games Games and More Games

Quiz

I thoroughly enjoyed this website.  It had a large range of games that could be designed and incorporated into many different learning purposes and learning stages.  Obviously a teacher could design the games to assist with learning objective or as a tool to evaluate learning, however i think children would jump at the opportunity to create games that highlight their skills and learning.

Games could be themed or linked to a unit of work such as sustainability or it could just be on the latest Maths topic covered.  I think it would be a great getting to know you activity to build a class quiz or class game at the beginning of the year.  Another great idea would be for an older grade to create a games page for their younger buddy grade.  Games could also be displayed on the School ENews letter.  It would be a great way to show parents what their children have been learning and the quiz or game is something the family could do together.

I created a quiz using quia

http://www.quia.com/quiz/2513130.html 

Word Jumble

a word jumble

http://www.quia.com/jw/386914.html

and a game of hangman

http://www.quia.com/hm/667935.html      

Hangman (stars not hangman so we are PC)

I enjoyed playing my classmates games and I am sure children would enjoy the same experience.  we are often told to subscribe to many different organisations, websites and groups and I often wonder if you get value for your money.  This is one site I would pay to use!