VMODEL
STEPS
IN MAKING A MODEL
Target
Plan
Describe
BUILD
Check
Put
your model together
The next step is putting all your basic objects and processes together into a single model. Check your model plan. Pull any basic objects or processes you need out of your library. Then connect them up.
Use the arrows to connect up different basic objects to each other. For example, the bathtub might contain the water
You also use arrows to connect processes up to the basic objects in your model. These arrows should show how the processes either increase or decrease the measurables of different things. For example in the bathtub model, the process filling increases the amount of water. (Notice that you can't just say that it increases the water. You have to say which measurable it is increasing. Filling doesn't increase the water's temperature. You always need to attach an increases or a decreases arrow to a measurable.)
See
the target for this model.
See
the model plan for this model.
If
you make a mistake while you are building your model, the builder will let
you know, by changing his face to look puzzled or angry. If you do everything
right, he will smile.
Once you are satisfied by the ways that you have connected all the basic objects and the processes in your model, you can then check it with the professor.
GO BACK to describe
GO ON to check
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