Day138 · Keep it? Change it?Foundation Design Tech · T3 W27–28 · Teacher · Teacher / Day 138

Prepare

Use available actual work or a fresh blank start. Bring retained purpose/own preference and any actual attributed trial or reply. Unknown earlier outcomes remain unknown.

Invite and capture first

Ask: “Which part would you keep? Is there a part you would change?” Keeping a preferred design is a valid evaluation; change is not compulsory proof of learning.

Teach / model

After first choice, an adult can show their own fictional revision moving a display to an edge. Say why they chose it for their own job, not that all designs should do the same.

Make or direct

Child chooses one change and actual approved action, or an own plan. Save the earlier work before revision by a simple drawing or retained original, not a compulsory photograph.

Try / choose

Retry the same actual model action if it occurred before, or choose a new first trial and label it new. Record what happened this time; do not claim improvement from a revised drawing alone.

Save and notice

Keep old/new idea, reason, actual actor/action and the actual repeat or new trial. Preference and plan evidence remain useful at their own scope.

Three ways to join in

Short start: point to one part to keep and one possible change; adult records both without requiring manufacture.

Hands-on start: move one actual broad part, repeat the child’s chosen trial and notice any observed difference.

Explore more: try two possible changes separately and choose one based on purpose or preference; keep each trial’s conditions visible.