STEAM Design Challenge

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Back to SFUSD Summer Institute About the SLANT Summer Institute: On July 19-23, 2010 San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, the de Young Museum, 826 Valencia, KQED, ISKME, and the Exploratorium launched the Science, Literacy, Arts iNtegration in the Twenty-first century (SLANT) Summer Institute for Pre-k through 8th Grade Teachers to explore and investigate science and art integration. Participants received resources to use in the classroom and on field trips as they plan lessons with grade level colleagues.

The Design Challenge

Design an integration project for students that meets the following design constraints:

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 art integration activities/projects that inspired you in groups of 3

Using the research from Tell a story, brainstorm the five components that are essential to your projects. Write them down on individual post-its and put them on your easel pad.

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.

Once the group has an idea to move forward with, select prototyping materials to create a design prototype of the design solution.

Each group will present their prototypes.

The Design Process

Present the design process used by engineers.

Identify the Challenge
Research and Brainstorm
Design a Solution
Test Ideas
Evaluate
Build It

Design Process Video

Hand out materials

The groups will each be given easel pad paper, markers, pencils, scissors, tape, stapler, molding clay, pipe cleaners, different shaped craft sticks, and various paper to plan and build design prototypes.

Brainstorm and Prototype

Participants identified the challenge and have done some research. Now they have 15-20 minutes to brainstorm ideas and design prototypes that address the design challenge in groups of 2-3.