PICTURES OF MY MODEL!

Evaluation
In the past few weeks I have been working on our IT project. I went through the whole cycle and for that I did every step from Investigation to create and now I’m evaluating.
I think I did pretty well in investigation, I mentioned everything there was too mention from the trip well and I had a plan with a test in it. It was actually fun writing the investigation and remembering what I had experienced with our trip to the Bayanzurkh district. Later on when it came to create, I had a few changes and didn’t quite follow what I had written in the investigation. I think next time I will be more thoughtful about what I want to do in the end.
In the criteria B, design, I think I did well, too. I had three designs that were in detail and I had thought about what I could do as a gate design. I mean you always can do better but I think it was good. I also had a clear description to it and at the end I checked if the design fit to the design specifications. Only one of them had 1 specification missing. The other two had all designs specifications in them.
In criteria C, plan, I did in my opinion ok. I had everything mentioned that I thought I would need. In the end I used a few different resources then I thought I would need. Also I was wrong with the dates and time. I didn’t need as much time as I thought I would.
Criteria D, create, I think I did ok, I could have done much better but since it was my first time, I was kind of lost. I didn’t do a poster as my investigation states, because I thought we had to do a model. In the end I found out it wasn’t true. I used different equipment then as I said in the plan and I needed not as much time as I thought I would need. I couldn’t hold the dates, because the clay didn’t arrive in that week. I had to do it in the last week. My design has all design specification, but in my opinion it doesn’t look very neat. Next time I will try to follow my plan better and with that I won’t be in a rush and my final project in the end will be better.
To test my model, I asked members of the family, such as my mother, father and Mila. I thought three people wouldn’t be enough so I also asked Reeza and Rebekah to answer my test. When I asked them if they think the gate is appropriate for the ger districts, all of them said yes.
When I asked them if they think the gate would be able to protect the gers in real life, most of them said yes. My father thought that it would be too low and easy to climb over it. After I explained the whole model to him, he said it was high enough.
When I asked them if they think the gate would be stable it if was built, all of them said yes. Mila said that the gates doors might start hanging and she then told me another design that would be better. It is similar to Harams Design.
When I asked them if they would change something and what would they change, my parents wouldn’t change anything, they thought the model was good. Reeza and Rebekah said they would change the design on the gate. My gates design is a pure blue color; they said it would look better if it had the Mongolian design on it. Mila in this case would have changed the way the gates doors were attached onto the gate.
When I asked them if they think the model is decent looking, they all said it looks ok, but I could’ve done better in their opinion.
When I asked them if they think that the three metal hinges are strong enough to hold the gates doors, everybody said yes except for Mila. She had the idea, same as Haram, to put a strong piece of wire that would attached to doors to the posts, and also have the three metal hinges.
I think my model of a gate can be used in the ger districts and it would also be very functional. It wouldn’t break right away. But I also think not everyone could afford the gate. Since it has a lot of expensive materials such as the metal hinges and the metal covering the wood. The evaluation in my opinion is good too. I looked at both sides and also looked at everything very critically. Next time when I have to do the design cycle again, I will try to do better and get the best grade as possible.

Process
In my Criteria A Investigation, I said that I was going to do a poster and go around to show people my design. I would ask them to imagine it and then later they would have to answer specific questions. In the end I decided to do a model. At the end I changed my mind and built the model of my gate. I wrote up what I did into my process journal.
First day: I started preparing my equipment such as cardboard, glue, clay, and scissors. First I started of cutting the doors of the gate and the single door out of the cardboard the way I needed it. It took me a while to cut it exactly the same. After wards I attached them to pencils. I couldn’t find decent sticks anywhere. I then decided to use proper and long pencil. They are big and wide enough. After that I started painting the cardboard on one side. I let it dry. During the painting I painted a lot over my fingers. It was fun. I wrote up what I did into my process journal.
Second day: I checked if the paint was dry on one side. Of course it was. Then I painted the other side. Then I had to let it dry too. Afterwards I started to make the basement. I would stick the sticks in there or else they would fall down. I made the basement out of clay. This wasn’t so hard and was done in five minutes. I wrote up what I did into my process journal.
Third day: I got a lot of paperclips and bent them over. I bent them into little hooks. They are supposed to show the safety lockers on the gate and door. To show the hinges I took small rectangular squares of cardboard and stuck them onto the doors. I also cut out a piece of cardboard to resemblance the hole to peek through. I also stuck that on.
Forth day: I finished writing up my process journal.
During the building of my model I didn’t take as much time as I thought I would need. I also needed different equipment then I thought then I would need. It was fun building the model and I thought I would take way more time.


Test Criteria D
1. Do you think that this model of a gate is appropriate for the ger districts?


2. Do you think it could protect a ger in real life?




3. Do you think the gate would be stable if it was built?




4. Would you change something? What?




5. Do you think it is decent looking?




6. Do you think that the three metal hinges with be strong enough to hold the gates door better up?