Sekheena


 * Hello everyone, here is my park plan:**


 * Here is my reflection:**

//__How has your understanding of access to public spaces been changed by your experience of trying to access the Upper Field by wheelchair?__//

I heard from Bea, Adam, and Kevin that it wasn't very easy going around school in wheel chairs. They said that they couldn't enter the fields and that the courtyard had a passage way, but it wasn't wide enough for a wheel chair to go though with ease. They took a wheel chair and went to all these places trying to go to them to see if it was accessable. I think that it is very unfair for the people in the wheel chairs because they won't be able to go and spend time in these places because the cannot access them. That's why I made sure and made a ramp for people with wheel chairs and strollers etc.

//__What have you learned about the process when designing the park? Eg, how did you manage to convert real dimensions to grid dimensions and vice versa?__//

When I was making this park I learned many thingd. I learned how to use Macromedia Freehand. This was not very easy because through out my project I was having different kinds of dificulties, and many times I had to start over again. This was a very fustrating time because I had many things done, and I had to do them over. It was actually good that I had to keep restarting because I made it better each time restarted. It was a good thing that I learned how to use Macromedia Freehand because in seventh grade we were meant to learn how to use that, but the exploratory has been taken away and been replaces with some thing else, so now I know how to use it. I also learned how to find the area of a circle and oval. It was good that I learned this because I will be able to use tis knoledge in my next years.It was good that we did this project because I learned so many new things!

//__What suggestions can you make for improving the process for next year’s students?__//

Some suggestions for the next year students I have is try and make the park 1x1 meter being one box. You should do this because it was very hard for me, in the beginning, to make a park with one box being 5 meters wide and high. Luckily I later changed to 2x2 meters, which was also quite hard. It would be easier to have 1x1 boxes because if I were making a bustbin in a plan that had one box being 5 meters, the bin would almost be invisible! It would also be easier if you gave us some ideas of what kinds of things to put in our park (e.g. swimming pool, bustbin, vending machine, swings) because I spent loads of time thinking of what to put in my playground area. Also, I don't think that it was a good idea to make half the park a picnic area and a play groung because there is no way to do that without having loads of picnic tables and a huge park! It would have been a lot easier for us if we had a longer time to work on this project because we have so many projects at the end of the year and such little time to do them. I think these things changed, the next 5th grades would want to thank us a lot.


 * Here is my persuasive letter:**

Dear Mathsland Community Planning Committee, I think that my park plan should be chosen for the MKIS Park. I think this because I have many features in my park. I have sandboxes, monkey bars, vending machines, wheel chair access, and trees for shade, a swimming pool and more. The size it’s not too big and not too small. I also have places where my guests can eat and relax. I have some ice cream and hot dog stands for hot days. I also have a restaurant where guests can eat in an air-conditioned room. All for an inexpensive price! I have a play ground where children can play. In this playground, I have monkey bars, a slide, a sand box, swings, and a swimming pool. I also have benches, vending machines, dustbins, and ice cream/hotdog stands for the kids and parents. I have a swimming pool for people to exercise in a fun way! Guest can paddle around the shallow end, athletes can swim laps, and children can splash around in the baby pool. I think that it was very important to include a disabled ramp for people with wheel chairs or mothers with carriages. If I didn’t have this ramp, people would feel left out. I have a pond with a bridge top. I thought that having this bridge would give the pond a nice touch because then people could actually use the pond, not just stare at it. This park can be used almost all around the world. It has picnic mats for the first of July; a football field for developing football stars, a baseball field for developing //baseball// stars, and trees, which everyone likes!It a good think that my park has so much variety because my park is open to anyone, anywhere, any time, all FREE!


 * Here is my report:**

I chose the 42m x 60m park desing. I have many things in my park. I have swings, slides, picnic tables, benches, bustbins, fields, a sand box, restuants, a pond with a bridge, picnic mats, an entrance for the disabled, a swimming pool, monkey bars, a hotdog and icecream stand, vending machines, trees, and more. Here, I have a legend with the length, width, and area of all the shapes in my park plan.




 * Scale:** 1 unit is equal to 2 meters.


 * Formula:**
 * Triangle || bh/2 ||
 * Circle || 3.14 x r x r ||
 * Rectangle/Square || WL ||