Teachers Involved:
Molly DeBoer, Leila Webb, Shannon Manion, Brad Thies (ES 4th Grade Team)
Sarah Carpenter (DLC Team)
Ross Brown (Curriculum Coordinator)
Grade/Year level: Grade 4
SAMR: Modification
Description:
Students to use design process to create an invention that they market at an upcoming invention convention. For DLCs the focus is on the design process and presentation skills.
Curriculum:
This unit ties in with social studies and literacy.
Tips and Tricks:
The Design Process
- Time needs to given for testing and modifying.
- Describe design in terms of both form and function - use Alessi products as examples of this.
- At end of unit, photograph concept drawings and the finished product and have students write a reflection on the process including: how things changed from concept to creation and why, the challenges they faced and how they met them.
Presentations
- Have students build in the note section before putting a single thing on the slide.
- One slide per point/idea
Reflections
- students reflecting on the process is very important. Initially they may not reflect at a deep level, so stimulate their thinking with what? How? Why? questions
- It's important for teachers to realize that the design process is messy and chaotic - students will pass through this stage as they refine their ideas. Stay with the process
Resources Needed:
- Invention Convention Google Slides For Design/Presentation/Appeals lessons
- The Design Process/Cycle of Inquiry
- Stanford Design Model
Associated Web Links:
- Ellen Show Kid Inventors - Bathroom inventions
- Ellen Show Kid Inventors - 3 Kid inventions and a baby (high chair one particularly good)
- Kid Inventions Turned Into Reality
Time Involved: (specific lessons - not including support in class following a lesson)
- 1 hour: Marketing Your Product
- 1 hour: Alessifying Your Product
- 1 Hour: Appeals
- 1 hour: Presentation Skills
Contact Information: sarah.carpenter@seoulforeign.org
