Identify a design situation. Give a brief introduction.
Hello my name is Ameenah. Am 13 yeras old when i was young i did not learn how to swim. It was a really big problem for me because i was scared of water its really a big problem for my sister does not know how to swim and i will try to find her a way to teach. I always try to help her but she is always too scared to do this.
Outline the needs to solve a problem.
She need to know how to swim so she can help herself in a real life situation incase something related to water happens to her and she cant help herself or help other people.Learning to swim is important for several reasons and mastering this skill at a young age can benefit you throughout your life.An obvious reason for learning how to swim is to acquire the ability to survive in water.
Explain and justify the need for a solution to a problem for a specified client/target audience
The age group 10 is what am teaching how to swim because they are still young and are old enough to learn a lot of skills and swimming is essential for their safety .It is absolutely crucial that all kids know how to swim at a young age. There is water all around us, even if it’s as small as a bathtub. Making sure that your child is comfortable in and around water is essential to their safety.
Explore identified, real-life design problems set in familiar and unfamiliar contexts
Brooklyn teen Jean Fritz Pierre drowned on a class field trip in June.The doomed freshman was one of 48 students on a field trip to Rockland County’s Bear Mountain State Park. The trip, intended to be a joyous celebration of the school year’s end, turned tragic when Jean Fritz and a friend left the group to cool down in Hessian Lake, where swimming is banned because of deep pits in the lake’s bottom.Park workers who spotted the teens called them four times to return to dry land, but it was too late — Jean Fritz disappeared under the water. After a 50-minute search, police discovered his body. Cops said the cause of death was accidental drowning.
What is the nature of the problem?
The nature of the problem is that people endanger themselves by not learning how to swim at a early age and dont listen to instruction and endanger thier life to just go against the rules which is what happend to jean fritz.And in some cases they are too poor to know anything about swimming or to even learn how to swim which is not thier fault.
Who is it a problem for?
The problem affects a lot of people in the world mainly because of thier fear of water but mostly children becuse. All over the world, infants and toddlers drown more frequently than people at any other age because this age group drowning most likely have Inadequate supervision, an inability to swim, and lack of barriers separating them from pools and other water
Where is the problem occurring?
The problem occurs everywhere. You might not know but every minute there is a case of someone drowning elsewhere. But mostly i think the case of drowning occurs mostly in the united states of America. In the United States of America, 45% of drowning deaths are among the most economically active segment of the population. Coastal drowning in the United States alone accounts for US$ 273 million each year. The problem affects mostly african americans in which most of them cant swim, around 70% of black americans cant swim.
What is the cause of the problem?
African Americans were not allowed to swim in the’40s or ’50s, so if thier grandparents didn’t know how to swim, then they didn’t teach thier parents, and if thier parents didn’t swim, then they might not be a swimmer. It is also stated that the drowning of african american children is three times higher than white american children. Just under 70% of African-American children surveyed said they had no or low ability to swim. Low ability merely meant they were able to splash around in the shallow end. A further 12% said they could swim but had "taught themselves".Many african american parents are not teaching their children to swim because most of the time the fundamental reasons would be lack of money for swimming lessons or living in areas where there are no pools.67
PRIMARY SOURCE
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interviewing, surveying and/or polling potential clients
i asked all my classmates this questions and this is what they all agreed on. As we can see most of the class agrees that not knowing how to swim really endangers people's life. Most people also knew how to swim way before they were ten which really helped them. People also said they were happy with knowing how to swim.
SECONDARY RESOURCE
Secondary research involves using data collected by other people. Examples include: analysing data from a website or book
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/08/how_many_americans_cant_swim.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/08/how_many_americans_cant_swim.html
I went on the link to know more about the americans who cant swim because i cant calculate the whole world so i decided to focus on america as a whole and it stated that In a 1994 CDC(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ) study, 37 percent of American adults said they couldn't swim 24 yards, the length of a typical gymnasium lap pool. A 2008 study conducted by researchers at the University of Memphis found that almost 54 percent of children between 12 and 18 can do no more than splash around the shallow end of a pool. The difference between the two studies is somewhat surprising, as the CDC study suggested that children tend to be better swimmers than adults. The Memphis study broke the data down demographically. White children were the most likely to self-report (or have their parents report) strong swimming skills, with 58 percent of those between the ages of 4 and 18 claiming the ability to traverse more than a pool length. Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders came in a close second at 55 percent. Forty-two percent of Hispanic and Latino children are strong swimmers. Asian-American and Native American children came in at 34 percent and 32 percent, respectively. African-Americans reported the fewest strong swimmers at 31 percent. Accident rates largely conform to these data. African American children between 5 and 14 years old are more than three times as likely to drown as their white peers.
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