Design Challenge:
Target Audience: Yourself or younger family member
This unit focuses on setting you up for future success during your choice units by teaching you many of the skills required to effectively use the 3D printer, laser cutter, circuitry, and design lab tools. The challenge is to learn these skills in just 9 weeks!
During this challenge, you will make your own personalized Fidget Spinner and bedside Night Light. Check out the skills to see all that you will be learning...
Statement of Inquiry
The BIG IdeaThe development and creative personalization of new products often comes from the
adaptation and evaluation of existing products.
Factual Questions
Remembering facts and topicsWhat is the difference between innovation and invention?
What are some ways products have been adapted in the past?
What indicators can be used to evaluate a successful product?
Conceptual Questions
Analysing big ideasHow can we develop a product through the design cycle?
Why does the development of a product need evaluating?
Debatable Questions
Evaluating perspectives and developing theoriesTo what extent does the adaptation of a product lead to success?
Key Concept
Links to other learningDevelopment
Students constantly adapt and change their plans when creating the solution, dependent on the thoroughness of their planning and, when evaluating, students develop testing methods to assess the success of the solution.
Related Concepts
Adaptation: taking a similar product and adapting it for personal needs
Evaluation: aesthetics of final product matters
Global Context
Real-world applicationPersonal and cultural expression
artistry, craft, creation, beauty
our appreciation of the aesthetic