I might need to change my approach to this course in some of the classes as some of the students are struggling to work through the process required if they are to be selecting their own projects. We will determine this over the next few weeks as we work through this process and I see how the students are progressing.
C & D 7, 8, & 9
- Students had no yet finished their personal item that represents them, finished it today.
- Once they completed this they began to work on continuing their individual design projects. There is a great deal of work involved in this because allowing students to select a project from multiple disciplines means that they are required to do a great deal of the exploration of their topic on their own. These are the following stages that they are working through:
- Come up with a challenge, problem, topic, or idea.
- Determine what they need to find out about their project, or learn, to in order to be able to do it. This may include: What are the best materials to use? What tools do I need? Do we have these tools? How do I use these tools? How do I put it together? What problems or things might get in the way of me being able to do this project.
- Find answers to their questions and challenges
- Come up with a rough design / sketch of their project including measurements
- Make a list of all tools / equipment and materials that are required
- Depending on the project the students may want to create a template or prototype to test their idea before moving on to creating it
- Begin creating their project
- The students were given and asked to refer to this chart to help them work through the process.
