\item Do you play video games? \item What kind? \item If you could be anybody or anything, what would you choose to be? \item Do you have a garden at home? \item Which are your favorite plants? \item Which are your favorite flowers? \item When is the best time of year to plant a garden? \item What do you do to help a sick plant? \item What does a plant need to grow? \item How do you know that a plant is sick? \item What happens to plants when it rains? \item Can plants get too much water? \item Do plants need sunlight? \item What happens to plants when there is too much sunlight? \item Can plants get too much sun? \item What do you do with the weeds in a garden? \end{itemize}
\item Did you drive in the NICE garden? yes no \item Would you prefer to work alone in the garden? \item What did you talk about with the other kids? \item What did you think about Vicki? \item What 3 things did you like the best? \item What 3 things did you dislike the most? \item If you could be any character in the VR garden, what would you choose to be? \item What happened when you put the rain over the plants? \item How did you know that a plant needed water? \item What happened when you put the sun over the plants? \item How did you know that a plant needed sunlight? \item What did you do with the weeds in the garden? \item Draw what your garden looked like: \item Follow-up essay in the classroom: "If you could design your own VR world, what would you do?"
Garden plans and final gardens
Top row: some of the garden plans created by (a) two boys from the case studies, and (b) and (c) two classroom groups. Bottom row: ... the view of their final gardens generated by the system.
Drawings
Figure: Some of the children's drawings of the garden.