Festival Maker · Lesson 4
Lesson 4: Build Your Festival
Students design and build a 3D model of their music festival using the data, playlists, creatures, and loot they collected during gameplay.
Overview
Students design and build a 3D model of their music festival using the data, playlists, creatures, and loot collected during gameplay. This session connects gameplay decisions to physical design choices, preparing students to share and explain their models in Lesson 5.
Student Objectives
I can…
- ✓ I can use data from gameplay to design a festival model.
- ✓ I can connect songs, creatures, and loot to design choices.
- ✓ I can work with my team to plan and build a 3D model.
- ✓ I can use scale and proportion when creating structures.
- ✓ I can reflect on how data informed my decisions.
At a Glance
Total: about 45 minutes| Section | Time | Slides | What happens |
|---|---|---|---|
| Launch — Welcome & Grounding | 4 min | 3–5 | Play music as students enter. Students transition from gameplay to festival building by thinking about the elements of a music festival, starting with the special merchandise found at concerts and festivals. They share ideas with others or just reflect. |
| Connector | 4 min | 6 | Students choose the playlist from the slide that best matches their mood today, then share their choice individually or with a partner. |
| Review Visual Agenda & Agreements | 3 min | 7–8 | Review "Today's Adventure" and the classroom agreements, reinforcing teamwork expectations for the collaborative build. |
| Festival Design & Build | 1 min | 9 | Share an example of details from previous student festival projects. |
| Loot and How to Get It | 6 min | 10–15 | Model how to access and engage with the data in their playlist at dataadventures.org/festival/app — tempo and loudness, plus creatures, tasks to build into the model, loot, and song names. Students use what they know about their playlist data to calculate how much and what type of loot they can collect: some loot for each region, and some based on their tempo and loudness choices. If a team forgot their playlist code, look it up by name at dataadventures.org/teachers/playlists. |
| Festival Design & Build | 25 min | 16–20 | Students sketch their festival designs and decide what features to include, and learn what building materials they may use and how to get them. Give teams 5 minutes to design, then 20 minutes to build. |
| Reflection & Closing Ritual | 2 min | 21–22 | Students make a connection to one or more of the Data Habits of Mind and record it in the Data Habits of Mind Tracker. Guide students through a brief "Creature Reset" calming/reset routine to close. |
Materials & Prep
- No new pages to print if students collected loot during gameplay.
Gather
- Playlist dataFrom dataadventures.org/festival/app. Already collected during gameplay.
- Region-specific lootAlready collected by teams. Building material for the festival models.
- Data-specific lootBuilding material for the festival models.
- General building materials
- Scissors or teacher-approved cutting tools
- Tape (masking tape)
- Hot glueTeacher managed, if available.
- Optional supportsSentence frames, multilingual vocabulary cards, visual reference posters, sensory guide, noise-reducing headphones, and pause cards.
Digital
- Facilitation Slide Deck — Day 4
- Festival Maker app — dataadventures.org/festival/appEach group needs one computer or tablet with sound, headphones, and internet access during the session.
- Teacher tool — look up saved playlistsTeacher-facing (don't share with students). If a team forgets their playlist name/code, search saved playlists here.
Before You Teach
- ☐Set up the loot buffet with region-specific loot, data-specific loot, and general building materials.
- ☐Ensure all student data and materials from gameplay are available.
- ☐Cue music for arrival.
- ☐Display the visual agenda and sensory guide.
Open slide deck to project launches the fullscreen slideshow in a new tab. Open with speaker notes opens the deck in Google Slides with the speaker-notes pane below each slide — read these to prep, or open presenter view while projecting. The preview above is just a quick look.