Word Wave Participants visit Design Journal and develop Journal Idea 1 which asks that they think of a machine that they need and then visualize their idea in an Xpression. Participants visit Buzz and create an Xpression based on one of its Story Starters. Design Professions Design Xchange Participants create an Xpression of designers and the things they design. Shirtmaker and develop a similar X-pression of their own. Design Xchange Participants visit Design Specs 2 and consider specific needs and develop an Xpression that reveals their thinking.
Participants also explore the way they see themselves in relation to machines.
Participants examine the mechanisms by which small tools and gadgets operate and expand their awareness of how tools and gadgets fill a need. Wacky World Participants visit Kids' Puzzles, play with examples they find and develop X-pressions of their own. Participants visit Artifacts and develop X-pressions of their own based on what they find there. They consider the relationship between form and function. Learn how to find other children, Xpressions and icons.