Timeline:

• Launch: students are asked to bring in their favorite toy to school and leave them on their chair/table before dismissal. The next morning, when students come in they see all toys rearranged/set up purposefully around the room. Teachers ask students to think of what happened over night. How did they get there? What were the toys doing over night to end up in these positions?

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• Visit students at another school/organization in order to investigate their buddy’s interests to begin the designing phase of creating a toy for them.

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• Poll students of similar age to their buddy to determine popular toy trends

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• Visit a Toys R Us to interview a salesperson about toy sales.

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• Begin to design and build prototype of their toy.

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• Brainstorm and draft story about what the toy does at night.

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• Critique and revise both the toy and the story.

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• Create final draft of both toy and story.

 

• Give the final product to the buddy.