3rd Grade Visits ChapMart!

This week, as 3rd grade students entered the art room, they were unenthusiastically welcomed by Mr. Grumpy to the fictitious grocery store, ChapMart. As students sat in The Hive, they saw an image of the cereal aisle and heard grocery store sound effects playing over the classroom speakers.

   

After Mr. Grumpy told the "customers" of this weeks specials, he proceeded to complain about having to spend the entire morning reorganizing the cereal aisle based upon which cereals were designed for adults and which cereals were designed for kids. Suddenly a crashing sound came over the speakers and cereal boxes came crashing down onto the aisle floor, sending Mr. Grumpy into a nervous fit, as he has already been written up 3 times this month. 

Mr. Grumpy asked the customers to help him not get fired, by organizing the cereal boxes at the tables. Customers moved to the tables and worked together to place cereal boxes designed for adults on one side and kids on the other. 

Customers gathered together as a whole class to take time to reflect on the designs of the boxes and discuss the similarities between the kids' boxes, and then the adults' boxes. 

Customers then discussed the purpose of "audience" as part of the design process. Customers investigated board game designs in search of who the targeted audience could be. Customers were then transformed into designers as they identified their audience, listed important design elements of a board game, and began to generate ideas of their own board games.

A lot of fun will soon be created by the creative games I saw being planned this week!