Design Questions

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

 I am going to create a flipbook. I am going to create a flipbook because I think that it will be easier for a 6th grader to understand what the design cycle is. I am creating this project so I can show a 6th grader the step of the design cycle and how it is important.
11. What are the requirements for this assignment? 

• needs to be at least two minutes long
• a 6th grader needs to be able to understand the design cycle
• needs to not be distracting
• has to be easy to understand
• talks about all the stages in the design cycle

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

The presentation of my flipbook has to be at least two minutes long. We can go longer if we choose to but as long as its not less then two minutes.

13. How will you "test" your project?

We will be surveying the 6th graders on what they think of our project and if they've learned anything from our project. We can also give them a little quiz on what they learned and how well my project helped them learned about the design cycle. The quiz could be about 15 questions long. I would want them to at least answer 80% right.

Summary

   For the past couple of weeks we have been working on the design cycle. We were supposed to make something that will help a 6th grader learn about the design cycle. The design cycle is important because it teaches us how to investigate, plan, create, and then evaluate. First we had to pick which two items we will be investigating. I chose a flipbook and a comic strip. We had to go to some websites and learn about both of them. I rated the flipbook a better score than I rated the comic strip. I thought that the flipbook would be easier for a 6th grader to learn about the design cycle. Then, we had to make brainstorming ideas on the item we chose. I chose the flipbook and I had to make three samples of how I wanted it to be. 

flipbook samples

Flipbook Sample #1:


Page 1: A pizza wakes up in the morning and finds out that someone has stole her toppings (cheese).


Page 2: She brainstorms ideas and a list of foods who could have stolen her toppings. 


Page 3: She asks all her cousins if they've seen anything suspicious. They all say that her cousin lasagna was acting pretty suspicious.


Page 4: So she goes to her cousin lasagna and it turns out she did steal her topping.


Page 5: In the end she is able to go in public now that she has her toppings.




Flipbook Sample #2:


Page 1:  A bussiness man wants to make up this whole new toy that all kids will love.


Page 2: He starts to survey many little kids on what they like. Many little kids say stuff like dinosaurs,  and robots.


Page 3: The man starts talking to some of his other people and they all think and come up with ideas. Then one man comes up with this brilliant idea. 


Page 4:  They come up with the idea of making robot dinosaurs.


Page 5: They tell their inventors the idea and the inventor create the new toy.


Page 6: The next day he gives some free toys to the kids to see if they like them. It turns out that they are a big hit.




Flipbook Sample #3:

Page 1: A dog is missing his chew toy (mr.squeakers) and searches all around, asking dogs all around if they've seen his chew toy.


Page 2: The dog starts jotting down some idea on how to find his chew toy. He makes up his plan on making a device that locates all local chew toys.


Page 3: He actually creates the device.


Page 4: He uses his chew toy tracking device around his neighborhood and locates Mr. Squeakers.

comic strip

Comic strip:

    For simplicity for the comic strip I rated it a score of 3. It's pretty easy for me to make, but I think that a flipbook is easier because it is only picture. The comic strip has two things. It has pictures and it has captions. That is why i rated the simplicity for a comic strip a three out of a five.

   Theme in the comic strip was okay. It didn't really have that many options for them. Most of the time for comic strips you would have to draw some pictures and write captions under talking about the pictures. So, the themes for comic strip had options but not a lot.

    The music was not good because it didn't even have any music. I wish that it did have music so then it could make the comic strip better and I probably would have given it a better score if it did have music. That is why I rated the music for comic strip a 0.

flipbook

 


Flipbook:

      I chose the flipbook because it was easier for me compared to the comic strip. All you have to do is make little pictures. That's why for simplicity I gave it a 5. I also gave flipbook a 5 because since we're teaching 6th graders I think it will be easier for them to understand. They will probably pay more attention because all they're focusing on is the pictures.
  
      For the theme i gave it a  4 out of 5 because it had pretty good options to me. it had quite a few option and i liked the ones that I saw. The themes were cool and interesting. if i were a sixth grader I would give the themes a good rating too.

      Then for the music I would give it a 0. The reason i gave it a 0 is because it does not even have any music at all. Other than the music i think the flipbook is really good.

day 2 investigation reflection

Today, I researched comic strip and flipbook. The flip book looked good because its all pictures and the comic strip had pictures too but it had words. i think that the flipbook will be a good tool for me to show a 6th grader about the design cycle. I also used cool tools to research my websites that i was going to use. It helped me find out a lot of stuff about flipbook and comic strips. i want my flipbook to really help a 6th grader and i want them to understand clearly.