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Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Designs can be improved with prototyping and testing.
Skills are developed through practice, effort, and action.
The choice of technology and tools depends on the task.
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Applied Design
Understanding context
- Gather information about or from potential users
may include self, peers, younger children, family or community members, customers, plants, or animals
Defining
- Choose a design opportunity
- Identify key features or user requirements
- Identify the main objective for the design and any constraints
limiting factors such as task or user requirements, materials, expense, environmental impact, issues of appropriation, and knowledge that is considered sacred
Ideating
- Generate potential ideas and add to others’ ideas
- Screen ideas against the objective and constraints
- Choose an idea to pursue
Prototyping
- Outline a general plan, identifying tools and materials
- Construct a first version of the product, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
for example, a physical product, a process, a system, a service, or a designed environment
- Record iterationsof prototyping
repetitions of a process with the aim of approaching a desired result
Testing
- Test the product
- Gather peer feedback and inspiration
- Make changes and test again, repeating until satisfied with the product
Making
- Construct the final product, incorporating planned changes
Sharing
- Decide on how and with whom to sharetheir product
may include showing to others, use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
- Demonstrate their product and describe their process
- Determine whether their product meets the objective and contributes to the individual, family, community, and/or environment
- Reflect on their design thinking and processes, and their ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively in a group, including their ability to share and maintain a co-operative work space
- Identify new design issues
Applied Skills
Use materials, tools, and technologies
things that extend human capabilities
Identify the skills required for a task and develop those skills as needed
Applied Technologies
Use familiar tools and technologies to extend their capabilities when completing a task
Choose appropriate technologies to use for specific tasks
Demonstrate a willingness to learn new technologies as needed