DIY Design Challenge Activity
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From the Teachers as Makers 2011 Summer Academy
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The Design Challenge
Design a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Project for students that meets the following design principles:
- The design must meet a need for their school community.
- The design must use collaboration between teacher, student, and community.
- The design must be multidisciplinary.
- The design must use low cost and/or no cost materials.
Outcomes: Support student creativity and meet the learning standards of the school.
Materials:
easel pad, markers, post-its, salvaged materials from RAFT for prototyping, camera and video for documenting presentations
Activity
- Tell a story about an example of your teaching around DIY or a DIY activity/project that inspired you in groups of 2 (3 minutes per person/story)
- Using the research from Tell a story, brainstorm the five components that are essential to the success your projects. Write them down on individual post-its and put them on your easel pad. (10 minutes)
- Review the Design Process: Identify Challenge, Research and Brainstorming, Prototyping
- Design Process Video WGBH
- Research and Brainstorm a design solution to the design challenge that incorporates the five components from Tell a story and the design principles. Use an easel pad paper to write and draw your ideas. (15 minutes)
- Once each group has selected one idea to move forward with, each group will share the their idea theme and learning objective(s). (2 minutes per group)
- Then each group will select prototyping materials to create a three-dimensional design prototype of their design solutions. (25-30 minutes}
- Each group will present their prototypes to the entire group. Followed by Q & A by the group. (3 minutes per group)
- Once each group has presented and gotten feedback on their projects, they will create a new wiki page and write up a lesson plan describing their project below (under group presentations). They may also upload images and documents to their page and post resource links.
Group Presentations
Our Rights Of The Child Scrapbook
