Title: THE SECRET LIFE OF TINY SPACES

Purpose: In this exercise students will explore storytelling with physical models, scale, and small spaces in order to gain a better understanding of how to use models to express their own ideas. 

Description: If you were three inches tall and lived in this building, where would you live?Students will explore spaces by first looking for different nooks and corners in the iLab, library, and around the building for places where small versions of themselves might make their homes. They will then take pictures of those spaces, print them, and sketch their ideas of the stories they want to tell over the photos, and finally build models of themselves doing an activity in that small space.

Materials:

• Part 1 (Exploration)
  • Paper to take notes on
  • Pencil
• Part 2 (Sketching)
  • Paper 8.5"x11"
  • Colored Pencils/Markers/Crayons
• Part 3 (Modeling)
  • Cardboard
  • String
  • Anything in the iLab!
    
    

.Instructions: This exercise is broken into 4 parts

1. Explore - Each student will spend 10 minutes looking in and around the iLab for a space where they would tell a story about something they would do if they were three inches tall. How might you interact with the world around you? How would it be different from how it is now?
2. Sketch - After deciding on a space, students will sketch themselves interacting with their environment on a photo overlay.
3. Model - Students will model themselves and any scale objects they might need with them in order to tell the story they sketched.
4. Post - Each student will make a post on the NuVu website explaining their process.

Deliverables: Student groups will create a final post in the Responses tab and post:

1. A picture of the sketches you made,
2. A photo of the model while you were making it,
3. A photo of your model in its location
4. A short description of what you made