Contexts / C20 · Text version | Foundation Design Tech · T4 W35–36

An ordinary teaching idea. The example below is made up; your own work can stay private.

Have a go

Read the two-contribution story.
Point out the child's chosen purpose/directions and the adult's physical assembly.
Keep the use result open. For own work, name only actual actors.

Example and reasoning

A child character saves an own game purpose and instructions. Later they direct an adult to assemble suitable broad parts; the adult performs those actions. No use result is supplied. Ask which design choices were the child's and who physically assembled the parts. Next help: retain first idea, actual actor and unobserved result separately; direction alone is not child-performed making.

Related teacher plan

Grown-up help

Offer speech, sign, AAC, pointing, drawing, faithful dictation, usual home-language support when competent, private work, pause, rest or finish. Ask one part at a time and keep its meaning. No partner, winner, score, time limit or fixed response length is required. Use only locally suitable broad whole paper/card, a checked marking tool and a stable comfortable table. A helper may act exactly as directed; keep the child's idea and the actual operator's action separate. Record an actual event only when it happened. A missing record can mean unknown; it does not establish that no action happened. A supplied story remains fiction. Show the worked reasoning after an offered own idea where useful. This context is not a held first/later source. [Full notices](../SOURCE-NOTICE.html)