Plotting and Planning, Scheming and Dreaming
Room 5 have been getting creative and thinking about types of games for playground markings. We have been doing research on types of games, surveying other classes to see what they think of what we already have and planning and designing using the spaces we play in.
We used the Thinkers Keys to figure out ways we could find out how to go about this - all ideas accepted, out-of-the-box thinking encouraged! We narrowed this down to 4 or so ideas to get us going.
We thought of questions and then carried out a survey of the classes at Ohau School, to see what people thought of the playground markings we already have. Our questions we thought of together were:
1. How many people in your class play with our playground markings?
2. How often do
those people use the playground markings?
Never
|
Once a month
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Once a week
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Every day
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4. How many
people play 4 square or 8 square?
5. How many
people would use them more if they were more exciting? For example – different
games or new paint.
We got some great results - including twice as many people saying they would use the markings if they were more exciting!
We then used ideas we thought of ourselves, found in books and researched on the internet to help us plan and design some ideas ready to test. He we are, hard at work as designers:
Thank you, Google Maps!