Design a New Playground for Suncrest!

Our main project before Spring Break is to design a playground! 

Due on March 7th, Tuesday. Playground Rubric 2017

Recently, the Suncrest PAC has been discussing ways to improve the playground (in fact, some of your parents are on the committee to help figure out what new equipment to purchase.)

Your job will be to work with a group of designers to pitch ideas for how the PAC could use their money to provide more equipment in the extra space we have for the intermediate area.

You will:

1. Work with a group. Use the seven norms of collaboration and the ladder of inference as your guide.

2. Measure the area provided outside so you can accurately represent the space available.

3. Do some research on playground equipment individually.

4. Bring your ideas to the group. Each person must contribute one piece of equipment to the area, but you can come to the group discussion with multiple ideas.

5. Come to consensus about the pieces of equipment and layout.

6. Make a draft drawing for the layout. Talk about the size of each item in relation the the real size of the playground area. Be able to justify your ideas and think about safety, area to move around the equipment, and overall size of each of the items in the space. 

7. Each person will construct a mini version of their equipment and then put them together into a full model. You will need to build it to scale, and we will talk about this together as I want everyone to use the same scale.

8. Each of you will write a paragraph for your proposal on the playground about your specific piece of equipment. Models should include colour and if equipment is movable, it could also move in the model, which would make a more effective presentation. The paragraphs you write will be put into one write-up for your playground model.

9. You will be marked on your individual piece of equipment, your individual paragraph, and your ability to work toward consensus successfully by solving problems independently. I will ask you to reflect on how this went on the rubric at the end.

10. We will then present our ideas to representatives from the PAC. They may not be able to use your ideas, because ultimately they have a budget they need to work with AND they are also making improvements to the main playground, replacing older items with new. BUT, they are interested in seeing what your ideas are, because it will definitely tell them what kind of equipment you are interested in for the future!