This Week at Casey

The turn out for the Design club this week was encouraging and I hope that it will be carried on throughout the rest of our time there. The most influential and meaningful part of the day was when the students were looking online at what a green roof was, the benefits it provides and also what goes into creating a green roof. The student I was working with was genuinely interested in the website on green roofs and asked many questions about how one was built, what could be used in the construction, and how it would actually help out the building it was built upon. After the students looked at the green roof website and the photos students had taken the previous week, we tried to have them draw a model of what they would want Casey's green roof to embody. This was where we lost some of the student's attention and their interests turned to other activities. I think it would have been more productive and fun if actual objects and materials were brought in to help create an actual green roof. The students were not quite sure what to include in their model and perhaps more information prior to the drawings would have been beneficial.

Stevi