I chose the same hypothesis as last week, but I made the toolkit part more specific, and I designed a toolkit to conduct a test to see if the toolkit has increased their interest in insects.
Assumption to test 1
Prototype 1
Task 1
The prototype is more than ten insect specimens, a laser pointer, and several insect knowledge cards.
Task is
1. Ask the children to rate their interest in insects. (1–5)
2. Introduce the task: Let the children look for flying yellow insects with chewing and sucking mouthparts from more than ten specimens.
3. Children use a laser pointer to aim at the part of the insect they want to learn, and then I will give him a card introducing the part so that he can understand the relevant knowledge and confirm whether he has found the target insect.
4. After completing the task, reward him with the insect specimen.
5. Let him rate his interest in insects again. To see if there’s any improvement
My second test is based on this assumption.
Some kids don’t want to play in nature because Children’s first impression of many creatures is “scary,” if they know more about them, they will be more willing to interact or play with them. So I decided to use dogs as an example.
Assumption to test 2
Hypothesis
The hypothesis is:
After watching the 10 mins video of the dog that the child was afraid of before, the child will no longer be afraid of the dog and is willing to play with it.
Prototype 2
Task 2
The prototype is: first show them a picture of a dog, and ask those children who are afraid of it if they would like to play with the dog. Let children who do not want to play with dogs watch a 10-minute video about dogs, and then ask them again about their views on dogs.
I found five pupils because they only have time on Saturday, so I decided to take these tests this Saturday.