Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it. For my project i am going to make a storyboard that will make it easy to teach the design cycle. This will help the 6th grader to learn the design cycle with any confusion.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment? I must have a clear and simple and under 2 minutes

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? Some limitation might be the time because you might need more time to explain everything to a 6th grader.

13. How will you "test" your project? I will test it out by giving some 6th graders some surveys to see if they understood the story board. They will get a 7 out 10 right for me to be a success.

Investigation Reflection

       I give myself a 4 because i feel that i didn't do so well on it. I how done alot of research on both comic master and flip book. I feel the end product won't be that well than what I would hope for. I can understand and explain the design cycle to most of the 6th graders. The investigation that i have done well help me out with the rest of the project. I will be using flip book since it beat comic master in the end result.I feel that the design will help me out to do something that will help me out alot.

Flip book

                                              flip book 

Measurement	Score (1-5)
Simplicity	5
Characters	4
Entertainment	4
Themes	3
Total	16

    I gave flip book a 5 in simplicity  because they are easy to use and you can see every thing you can do in flip book. It was very simple to use since all the keys are so easy to get in and use it. All the keys that you need to use are very easy to make and create anything that you want to do. It is very simple to use it since you can create any characters that you can think of by just drawing them into the screen. All you have to do is come up with an idea to create something by just making it by your hands. The buttons you use can help you out so much since it is so simple to put it on. All you have to learn is to come up with an idea to do everything you can do with it all.
      I gave it a 4 for the different characters to choose from. In flip book you create the character by doing your best job in drawing it. It could help you if it would give you some different types of drawings that are ready for you to use. The characters can't really be just anything you can do by just drawing it you must know how well it would come out. In everything about characters can be different by the way you see it like if you suck at drawing then the only characters you can choose from are probably just stick figures. If you are better at drawing then that could make you see it as a possibility to draw many different types of characters for the flip book.
    I gave it a 4 for entertainment because it is really fun to do all the things you want to draw and do whatever you want. It really helps you out if you can draw and play around with the pictures slide to make something to do. The things you can do for the flip book can help you make any thing that you can  create.
    I gave it a 3 in themes because it didn't have many themes that you can choose from since all the themes you choose from you have to create on  your own. The themes you get to choose from aren't that helpful if you have to create everything from only your mind. your mind will help you on everything you have to do for flip book.

day2 invesagation reflection

     Today I decided I wanted to do a comic strip. I compared two different sites at Mrs. Hinojosa's class. I liked better flip book since you can create your characters and it is a lot more simple than comic master. I researched it and tried my best to figure flip book out and their is no limitation to your imagination. In comic master you don't have a variety of characters to choose from. Comic masters usually doesn't let you do anything to do with all the characters that you can choose from. In flip book you can make a variety of things that you can create with just the mouse to do anything with anything you can do.

Design Folder

Area of Interaction: Community and Service , Approaches to Learning & Human Ingenuity

Significant Concept: Design Cycle can be used to solve problems

Unit Question: How can my learning help my community? How do I make Sound Choices?

INVESTIGATE: (Write in complete sentences) Identify the Problem

1. What is the problem you need to solve? Explain to a 6^th grader what the design cycle is all about by creating a presentation. (3d, PPT, movie, game, Poster)

2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? It applies to the real world because without it everything might not have been created. 

3. How will this project serve my community? It will serve our community by teaching all the little kids learn what the design cycle is.

4. How can my learning help my community? My learning would help my community by teaching them the design cycle and they teach it other people.

5. How do we live in relation to each other? We interact with everyone so we probably all know each other.

6. How does this help others? This helps other to interact with the people they know and the design cycle would be learned by everybody.

7. What are the requirements for this assignment? You need to know how to teach a 6th grader the design cycle.

8. What is the Design Cycle? The design cycle is made up of investigate, design, plan, and evaluate. 

REFLECT on your learning. I learned a lot about the design cycle and i can learn all of it.

Day 2

9. Spend one day experimenting with DESIGN CYCLE your presentation. List five things your learned about the Design Cycle:

Day 3

Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment?

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment?

13. How will you "test" your presentation?

REFLECT ON YOUR LEARNING

PLAN:

14. Brainstorm ideas. Use the chart below

IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf found in schoology under “materials”& then files

15. What idea did you choose to demonstrate the design cycle and why did you choose it?

16. Does your idea meet all of the requirements?

17. Use the story board paper below to plan your presentation.  Include how many levels you will have, what will be on each level, how will you include teaching skills to young students, and what will your questions be about.

story board.pdf found in schoology under “materials” & then files.

18. Explain how you will use your time to get your project finished in 12 days:

REFLECT on your learning

EVALUATE:

20. How could you improve your presentation?

21. Does your presentation meet all of the requirements?

22. Share your presentation with at least 2-8^th, 3-9^th, 4-10^th+ friends. What did he/she like about your presentation?

23. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve?

24. Were you responsible in using the software, Internet, pictures, and computer?

25. How can my learning help my community?

26. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6)

ATTITUDE:

27. Reflect on your attitude on each step of the Design Cycle. Did you completely answer each step without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard". Explain your answer:

28. What grade do you deserve on your attitude? (1 - 6)