Students

=WAITOMO STUDENTS LINK=

Waitomo Students Work Area a direct link to the **STUDENT** area.

Teacher Background Materials
Some links and ideas to assist with current projects.

**INVENTIONS**
In this activity, students are asked to think about any times at home or school when they have wished their was something available to make the task easier. Their ideas can be share in the student area.


 * Teacher Background Links:**

[|Good starting point for classoom inquiry] from the Christchurch Library

[|An alphabetical list of inventions] briefly described, and with links to more about the invention.

[|Inventors by name and Country]

LOGO DESIGN
This provides an opportunity to reinforce an inquiry approach. The concept is //Graphic Design// and might be thought of as:


 * //Investigation://** collect ideas, graphics, text that might be useful
 * //Development//:** sketch a few ideas to explore how the logo might look - these are drafts not finished products (visual roughs)
 * //Solution://** which draft worked best - how do you know?
 * //Evaluation://** the questions asked at each stage of the logo design - what was changed - why?

Some simple concepts to help student discussion at the input stage might be: • what is the purpose of the logo - who is the audience? • what are images (graphics) and/or words that have something to do with your idea? • what size and shape might we use - such as circle, rectangle, irregular...? • if words are used, what font would best suit the purpose? • what colours suit the idea and purpose best?

Creating several drafts helps discussion at the processing stage.

**Teacher Background Links:**
[|artyfactory]

[|Design Process] This link is also on the student wiki.

LANDMARKS Students can share what they know about a given lanmark and share landmarks from their own area. An opportunity for individual inquiry - we can share moderated material in [|Wikipedia] later for the world to see.