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

Help on how to make and understand a Vmodel model
Help on the model building blocks

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