GALLERY WALK

Student teams set up their designs or the drawings for their designs, and each team takes turns presenting their designs to the rest of the class. The whole group of designers moves from one presentation station to another; at each station, they learn about the product or design that is being studied. This session is like walking through an art gallery and observing each work of art, so we often call it a gallery walk.

The gallery walk provides an opportunity for groups to share what they have tried and what they have learned from their attemps. This is a great opportunity for students to learn from one another's comments and suggestions. It's main goal is for all students to better understand the design challenge facing them, the variety of solutions that might work, which solutions are the most promising and why, and what both successful and unsuccessful designs reveal about the way the world works.