DRIVING QUESTION:

How can we design and share a set of activities for kids to do at home while their parents are working?

Overview 

Today children will work on refining their one original idea and developing it. They might start creating the materials they need for their activity and then test it out to make sure this is the activity or game they want to teach others. Through these experiences, they will work to define and explain how to play, or use, their activity. 
For example, if a child’s idea is “Building a Robot,” he may experiment with a variety of materials that might work: cardboard, tin foil, Legos, or a combination of many materials. 

Key Questions

• What is my original idea?

• How will I make it? 

• How will I teach someone how to do it, use it or play with it? 

Project Work Time: Design

Children draw and revise their final idea for their new game or activity. 

This might lead to the creation of a list of materials to round up from home, looking through the recycling bin, watching a tutorial or YouTube video online. Encourage your children to think about the parts/supplies they will need. Here is where the agency really comes into play. Your children can make plans and follow through with them as long as we give them the space. They can identify what they want to do and design a plan for that idea.  They may create a model (prototype) or a simple sketch. They might also write out or dictate the directions for how to play. Children may use the checklist to guide their planning, even if all three criteria are not complete yet.

Share Your Progress

Take a picture of your child’s chosen activity and any descriptions of it and post on Facebook.