2-9-23 Workday
Goals for the day:
Get to know your team
Understand the Azalea Park project details
Create a team contract
Explore your teammates' Azalea Park ideas
Spaghetti Tower Challenge:
These are the folks you'll be working with over the course of the semester. In order to get to know each other and practice working together, you're going to face the Spaghetti Tower Challenge. Your task is to: in 18 minutes, create the tallest free-standing tower that can support a marshmallow using the following supplies:
20 sticks of dry spaghetti
1 yard of tape
1 yard of string
1 marshmallow
Learn about the project!
Everything you need to know about this project is on the homepage of this site. But, we've printed out those details so that you and your team can annotate them.
Highlight/underline the following:
In one color: What you’re worried about with this project.
In a different color: What you’re excited about with this project.
Write down: the way you’ll be most helpful to your group’s work.
After you finish highlighting and writing, share your thoughts with your team. Make sure to write down any questions your group has.
Create a team contract!
You'll work with your team to create a group contract that will guide your work through this semester.
Research: Divide and Conquer!
Divide your team, and look through the following resources to come up with some ideas for what you might want to propose.
Websites with cool ideas:
Eco-Parks for Learning and Play
Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous [on purpose...]
How Cities Use Parks to Help Children Learn
Getting Creative in the Floodplain
A bulleted list of some ideas:
A sculpture that you co-design with a local artist to inform others about ______
A station to help students monitor ____________
Signs that help people see/learn about _________
A story trail (set of signs that tells a story) that teaches others about ______
Art made of trash (and accompanying signage)
A community garden space
A station that teaches people about __________
DIY play structures that fit with the theme of Riverlink’s mission
Scavenger hunt signs
Programs or events that help ______ learn/do ______
An outdoor classroom space
Your plans from last semester:
Your Azalea Park proposals from last semester are located here! If you liked your plan and want to move forward with it, consider this:
What would need to change about your proposal from last semester in order to meet the criteria for this project? (Hint: look back at your rubric for help.)
Before you leave today, have one group member submit the following form: