Game: Ideally, I would love to create a fully functioning game that would encompass all of my ideas and enable young children, access to learning through logic and creativity. However, I unfortunately do not currently hold the skill set that is needed to create such a piece of media. In order to carry out this task, I would need to either contact another student, capable of creating games and working with the programming side, or learn it myself as I go. This is quite intimidating due to building the process, design and then making it function would be quite difficult and inflict a lot of pressure. However, I am going to do some more research, as this is my preferred route. Ultimately, creating something like this would allow me to enter my work into the EYA (European Youth Award) in July and potentially enlighten others on the importance of encouraging young children to use technology safely and in such a way that enables proper brain development.

Animation: I could create an Animation that shows exactly how the game would work, if I was able to build it. It would incorporate all of my design elements and I would use the camera tracking in such a way, that it almost felt immersive and interactive. This animation would also teach young children, all the STEAM elements I am trying to include. Ultimately, this would be OK, however I want to push the boundaries a little more and really encourage imaginative and interactive learning.

Instruction Manual: This is probably my second favourite idea, purely because it includes physically building your own solar system using arts and crafts. This instruction manual would work in such a way that would allow children to learn all the possible aspects of space, by carrying out a physical task relevant to it. For example, deciding how big the planets need to be on a realistic scale, in order to understand the distance and time frames between each individual one. STEAM is a working factor with this idea, due to being able to easily include many different aspects of the primary school curriculum. I believe this would work well as you would be able to access it at home, or at school. It could run as a workshop with individuals or encourage team work (social and cognitive development). The result of this exercise would encourage children to ‘share’ their work via the ‘space inventors network’ and other primary school pupils would be able to access/add to it.

Overall, each idea needs researching a little more before finalising on which i’m going to do. Each one has the ability to encourage building stronger imaginations as children, however some do it better than others and in a way that is more easily understood. More research to be carried out soon.