Appendices

Pre-test questions


\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?
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Post-test questions during the interview

\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.