Day 179 · Help someone find the startFoundation Design Tech · T4 W35–36 · Teacher · Teacher / Day 179 · Text version

Resource Weeks 35–36 · Queensland Prep / national Foundation · flexible session, often 25–35 minutes with pauses. This is a resource sequence, not a school-term date claim.

Useful outcome

Communicate useful own instructions; use a narrow actual source question without inventing another person's reply or maker intention.

Before you start

Read Preparation, choose suitable available broad parts or a no-object route, and select C17 / C18 if useful. Keep first ideas before examples.

The session

1. Begin with the child's chosen self-use or willing-person purpose. No sharing, performance or named recipient is required.
2. Choose what the guide needs: actual components, ready setup, first action or a stopping/reset instruction. Save own wording before adult models.
3. Choose a mechanism below. The guide may remain private/unshared. An actual recipient's exact words, if offered, are kept separately from the maker's interpretation.
4. An adult can review the narrow Kershaw Gardens fact and six-field source sheet and keep source/date/unknown limits. Its listed features are not a miniature playground design plan, attendance record or proof of this child's familiarity.
5. Offer D-first only after actual source/attribution/familiarity distinction teaching. Keep the real familiar-object exploration doorway explicit and separate; an empty/declined actual contribution leaves it open.
6. If a recipient or local promise is invented, return to what was said/checked. Preserve a useful unanswered question and select an unrelated next instruction.

Choose an engagement route

• Draw a start guide: Make a picture guide showing own start and first action. Keep it for private self-use or offer it to a willing helper.
• Ask for one reply: Give exact usual-communication instructions to a willing person. Keep only the reply they actually supply; no audience is required.
• Ask a local feature question: With an adult, use the six blank source fields for one checked feature or an open question. Create an own guide without claiming a visit.

Notice and teach next

Contexts: C17 exact reply does not mean everyone liked it; C18 prepared invitation with nobody asked. Observe: communicated own design/guide and actual source/recipient limits. Next teaching: distinguish 'says they found the start' from 'likes the game', using an unrelated fictional reply.

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