User stories and design criteria: Fair use of the school basketball court
These teacher slides can be used to introduce and develop understandings about user stories and how to use design criteria to generate ideas to meet a users needs and goals. In this set of slides we use the example of a school context that is about the fair use of basketball courts at playtime.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 5-6 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Lesson ideas |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Core and overarching concepts | Design thinking, Impact and interactions, Specification (decomposing problems) |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI6P01
Define problems with given or co developed design criteria and by creating user stories |
| Keywords | design, user stories, design criteria, local context |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | HPE, Design and Technologies |
| Organisation | Education Services Australia |
| Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated |
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