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Driving Question

C3 = Community Center Conumdrum

 

Design that Meets Needs

 

 

 

Project Driving Question:

How can the Town of Wellesley plan/create a recreational community center that meets the needs of all Wellesley community members and residents?

 

Project Information Sheet

Community Center Design

In this project you will be working in a group to reach out to a wide variety of Wellesley community members to collect information about opinions about the best ways to design and run the new Community Center to be built at 900 Worcester Street.

 

Driving Question: How can the Town of Wellesley plan/create a recreational community center that meets the needs of all Wellesley community members and residents?

 

What:  Data collection (survey form) from peers across the district, parents and elderly neighbors or grandparents and a presentation of recommendations to the Town's 900 Worcester Street Committee.

 

When: March and April 2018

 

Along the way you will be responsible for:

  • Keeping a reflection journal with thoughts, questions and ideas

  • Researching and taking notes

  • Team Contract

  • Peer Review

 

Online Resources: The Community Center Design Guide

 

What you will be assessed on:     

  1. Critical Thinking Rubric
  2. Survey and Data collection and analysis
  3. Presentation to 900 Worcester Street Committee Members

Wellesley Parks & Recreation: What exists today.

Link to Town of Wellesley Parks & Recreation Department website.

Current Town Facilities (What is available today):

  • Hunnewell Tennis Courts
  • Morses Pond (seasonal swimming and walking trails)
  • Town and Woodland Trails (43 miles of marked trails for walking or running)
  • Warren Recreation Center including gymnasium
  • Playing Fields

 

Research Tips & Tricks

Researching: Reading, Note-taking, Synthesizing

Things to think about:

  1.  How will you organize your notes in your PBL Journal?
  2. Are you thinking deeply on one idea or are you looking on the surface  at a few different websites?
  3. How will you know that you have had a successful research hour?
  4.  Goals: daily goals, goals for the hour.
  5. What is a note?

 

Shout Out from Wellesley Sports Center!

Posted 5/22/18

 

Facebook for Wellesley Sports Center

Posted on 3/15:
Had a GREAT time talking with Maureen Henzel's 4th graders at the Sprague Elementary School in Wellesley, Massachusetts this morning about the process, construction, and future of the Wellesley Sports Center.  Some great ideas on programming for future tenant spaces including go-carts, rock climbing and bumper cars - not to mention ideas on logo and naming!
Looking forward to continuing the discussion with them through the spring and into the opening later this year!  Next stop today ... discussion with user groups regarding sled-hockey.
Edge Sports Group
The Swellesley Report (Wellesley, Mass.)
Wellesley Patch
Wellesley Townsman

 

Questions to begin thinking about.

  • How can one community center meet the needs of people of many different ages and interests?
  • How important is it  for the  Community Center to be designed to be environmentally friendly, to use sustainable energy, to have a small carbon footprint?