My total is of 285.


10/4- finish survey 30
10/5- Start my designs 60
10/6- work on my designs 60
10/7- work on my designs 60
10/8- Test my designs 15
10/9- continuing working in my designs 30
10/10- reflection 30

Design Brief +Design Specifications for your product.

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. I'm going to make a comic book or a arcade game, i'm going to make it because I think is going to be easy to understand, and that the six graders are going to understand it.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment? The requirements are that a six graders has to understand it.

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? The limitations are that you have to make sure the six graders understand it and do the research.

13. How will you "test" your project? I would test by going to the six graders and showing them and see if they understand it.

Design Specifications

The design specifications are that a six graders has to understand it. 

You need to do something that is going to be easy to understand.

INVESTIGATION REFLECTION *)

I'm rating myself in this rubic with a 3-4 that is a 75/85, because I did discuss the problem but I don't think I have explain a lot. I did investigate in other sources, but I still didn't put a lot of thing, and I also think that I didn't write enough. I also rated myself in my blog of what I thought was how the things I'm going to do are going to be, but I still think that I discuss the things correctly, it may not be a lot, but I think is clearly for everyone to understand. For the product/ solution I try very hard to make it good, and understandable I have to know all the details of what I'm doing, and be sure that it would be alright and that is goign to come out ok. I did use the instructions and the proper prosideres, but I still it is not enough, that it is good but not enough, and that I could have right more and that it still be good. For the evaluation it also have to made a product/ solution thing, it was also a little difficult to make, because you need to make sure is understandable and that it follows the criteria of the design cycle and that it would be the proper thing to do. I rated myself with a 3-4, because I feel like I could have done better, but that I still did it good.

Comic Book 1, 2 & 3

Sample 1
Slide 1: In the front page is going to be the title of the comic book & a picture of the design cycle.
Slide 2: Is going to have some of the 1 design cycle & pictures about it.
Slide 3: Is going to have the other parts of the 1 part of the design cycle and pictures about it. 
Slide 4: Is going to have the 2 part of the design cycle, but only a part about the 2 design cycle and some pictures about it.
Slide 5: Is going to have the other part of the 2 step about the design cycle and also pictures.
Slide 6: Is going to have a part of the 3 step in the design cycle and pictures.
Slide 7: Is going to have the other part of the3 step of the design cycle and pictures.
Slide 8: Is going to have part of 4 step in the design cycle and pictures.
Slide 9: Is going to have the other part of the 4 step in the design cycle and pictures that relate to that.


Sample 2
Slide 1: Is going to have the title and picture about the design cycle.
Slide 2: Is going to have all of the 1 step in the design cycle and pictures.
Slide 3: Is going to have all of the 2 step and pictures.
Slide 4: Is goign to have all of the 3 step in the desgn cycle with pictures about it.
Slide 5: Is going to have the 4 and last step of the design cycle with pictures.

Sample 3
Slide 1: Is going to have the title of the design cycle and the pictures about the design cycle.
Slide 2: Is going to have all the steps in the design cycle with pictures.
Slide 3: Is going to explain the first 2 steps fo the design cycle.
Slide 4: Is goign to have pictures about the 2 first steps in the design cycle.
Slide 5: Is going to have the last 2 steps of the design cycle.
Slide 6: Is going to have the pictures about the last 2 steps in the design cycle.


Does 3 are one of the things I think I would do. I think does are really good choices and that the six graders can understand the design cycle when they finish reading the design cycle comic book.

Design cycle

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. I'm going to make a comic book, because I think the 6th graders would like more to read a comic book than other things. I'm going to make the comic book for the six graders, so they can understand the design cycle better.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment? The requirements are to make a six grader to understand the design cycle.

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? The limitation of this assignment is that you can only make the six graders understand it, and that it has to be the things she told us.

13. How will you "test" your project? I will test the project, with putting the six graders my comic book and see if they understand it.

REFLECT ON YOUR LEARNING

PLAN:

14. THREE Brainstorm ideas. Use can use the chart below or type to your blog your brainstorming ideas. 

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? I choose to make a comic book, and I choose it because the six graders would understand it.

16. Does your idea meet all of the requirements? Yes my idea meet all the requirements because the teacher give us that idea.

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 : I will use my time trying to figure out what i'm going to do so the six graders would understand it.

Arcade Game

I'm rating myself in simplicity a 3 out of 5, to do simplicity wasn't easy, not even if the teacher have the instructions in her website. i rated a 3 in simplicity, because I think creating a arcade game is not easy for me to do, but the teacher have the instructions in her website and if you follow it you would understand and learn, and the simplicity of the arcade game would be more easy. When I was researching the arcade game, I learn that if I use it the 6th graders would understand more easy about the design cycle, but I also have to think of what type of them to use so they would think is interesting and wanted to play with it. 

  The next category is Theme choice in the arcade game, I rate myself with a 3 out of 5, because I don't know if the theme I would use would be more interesting, and that maybe I could have use a more interesting topic, to choose the theme wasn't easy, because you have to think if other people would like it and find it interesting. I think of myself with not to much creativity so that's why it may have more difficult for me to think of a theme. The theme of the arcade game would not be the best, but it would do, and that's why I rate myself with a 3 in a theme choice.

  The next category of the arcade game is the font choice, in the font choice I put a 5, because that's really easy to choose. To choose a font, they tell you the possible ones, the ones you can use. You can also choose different fonts for different parts of the arcade game, you can also change every other thing if you want it to stand out more that other parts, of the game. To choose a font it was a little difficult, because there a lot of them. When I check and find out you could use different in other parts, it make it more easy for me to choose, because I could put others that I like in different parts. That's why I rate myself with a 5, because is actually really easy to do.

  The next and final category is music, in music was a little tricky. I rate myself with a 3 out of 5, because like I say before it wasn't that easy to choose what type of music to put in my arcade game. I'm not really that creative in choosing music so it wasn't that easy, also if I put the music the arcade game have it would be really boring music, and everyone would go out of the game and they wouldn't learn about the design cycle. That why maybe if I put music that wasn't in the arcade game it would be less boring to get in it, and people would stay in the game. That's why I put a 2 out of 5 in my music choice.

  At the end my total was 14 points and my arcade game was rated. :)

  

Comic Book

I rate in the comic book, for my simplicity a 4 out of 5, because it was actually really easy to make a comic book. In Ms. Hinojosa's website it tells you all the steps to make a comic book. The simplicity of a comic book is not much, but still you need to think about other things like if the six graders would understand it, or if they would found it attractive to actually read it. I think one of the most hardest thing to do was think about what to write in the comic, if what I would write the best thing. That's why I rate myself with a 3.

  The next category would be Theme choice, in theme choice I rate myself with a 3 out of 5. I rate myself with that because the theme is a little difficult to find, because you don't know if the 6 graders would be interesting in the topic I would use for my comic book, and actually want it to read it. The theme of the comic book should be something interesting, that the kids would actually want to read, and learn about the design cycle. I rate a 3 because like I say before it was a little tricky to think of what theme to use, that they would like. Thats why I rate myself with a 3 in the theme category.

  The next category would be character choices, in charater choices I choose a 4 out of 5, I choose that because once I got the theme choice it was more easy to find the characters that I would use. When choosing the characters though I still have to think which characters they would like more, like which ones would the like to watch more than the other ones. Like if I would give them one comic book the things they like the most, it is most liketly they would want to read it, and with out knowing they would have understand the desgin cycle. When rating yourself in the character part it could be easy or it could be diffictult to actually try and find characters to use in a comic book. Thats why I rate myself with a 4.

  The next category is font choice. In font choice I rated myself with a 2 out of 5. I rate myself with a 2, because it was really difficult for me because I'm not really that creative when it comes to fonts & decorading, and when duing a comic book you have to also think about the theme you choose to see if the font you use would match and look good with what you did in the comic. Also you have to know when to make the letters different then the rest because, not everything can be equal. When talking about the font you also don't have that many choices because the website only gives you some, so that may make it a little more difficult for me to know what fonto use. That's why I rated myself with a 2 out of 5 in the font category.

  In the end I got a total of 13 points, because like I said before somethings are more difficult to do than the others, but at the end you may have done better thing that what you think you can do. Also it is more easy to do the comic book, because the teacher have on her website the instructions of how to make a comic book. :) 

Day 2 : Investigation Reflection

Today, I researched an arcade game, and comic strip I found that you can do a comic book really easy, but first you have to learn about it, and in the arcade game is also easy, because Ms. Hinojosa has on her websites.The WEBSITES I found the information in are http://www.comicmaster.org.uk/ for the comic book, and for the arcade game I use http://www.classtools.net/education-games-php/quiz. Right now, I still have not decided which tool I WILL USE to teach the design cycle to a 6th grader.   Now I need to design a story board of how I will teach the design cycle.

Design Cycle.

1. What is the problem you need to solve? The problem we need to solve is how to help a 6^th grader understand the design cycle.          

2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? The design cycle can help us to solve problems in the life.

3. How will this project serve my community? It will help the community to be more organized.

4. How can my learning help my community? The community can be oraganize in they work.

5. How do we live in relation to each other? I think everyone is differenet but it can help us to be more organize in the things we do together.

6. How does this help others? It helps others by understanding more about the design cycle and being organize.

7. What are the requirements for this assignment? To do the best you can. 

8. What is the Design Cycle? The design cycle are the steps that will help you solve a problem.

9. Spend one day experimenting with DESIGN CYCLE your presentation. List five things your learned about the Design Cycle: 1. That it helps you be organize. 2. I learn the proccess of the design cycle. 3. I learn how to make a bolg. 4. I learn that if I have a question about the design cycle, I can check in my study buddy . 5. I learn how to organize.

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?

3. How will this project serve my community?

4. How can my learning help my community?

5. How do we live in relation to each other?

6. How does this help others?

7. What are the requirements for this assignment?

8. What is the Design Cycle?

REFLECT on your learning.

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)

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