Has working with these different medians allowed us to become more confident in using our creativity in the classroom?  How so?

How does the appreciation of working with different medians relate to appreciating different types of people?

How would this understanding help break down barriers within our community?

How will this experience allow you to experiment more with your own imaginations?

How can we cooperate like the interior designers, even though they all have different tastes and different interests? 

How do we value "the use of space" and dimension?

Learn how to compromise with their "business partners"  

For them to develop more of an appreciation for different medians and to gain more confidence to experiment with their imagination

For students to gain more of a clear understanding on how they view the ideas of space and dimension

Have a morning meeting for 45 minutes, discussing what the goals of the day are and what they will be doing at the firm

Bus to the interior design firm

Have a 20 minute tour to become more familiar with the firm

Corporate gives speech for 20 minutes on the medians used in interior design and the importance of working as a team, students take notes 

lunch time in the firm cafeteria where the corporate answers student's questions

Students pair off with different members of a the firm

Every pair is given the same floor plan and dimensions

In one hour, they are supposed to create a floor plan and provide the different medians they would be working with such as, what type of textures, carpets, tile, etc...they would be working with

They would then use stencils to pencil in the furniture they would want to see in their apartment

if they had time left over, they could cut out of magazines the different types of furniture that they would like to see in their hypothetical apartment

They would then all then get together and explain why they used the space and dimensions in the way they did.  They would have to rationalize space and decipher what would be "the best use of space." 

The students would then write in their journals for ten minutes with these prompt questions, what difficulties did they encountered in communicating between each other and how were they solved?  What are the benefits of doing a project with an interior designer?

They will then thank the workers in the firm and head back to school

Individual notes:  How well did the students and the adults work together?  Was there more lack of communication between the students themselves or the interior designers toward the students?

How much did the students involved with the different art medians when doing their apartment floor plans?

read their journals: What difficulties did students have in communicating with others?  How were they resolved?