Design Thinking and Engineering for Young Students
- 1. Design Thinking and Engineering for Young Students Lynn Reed Makerspace Director Bullis Charter School Jessica Lura Director, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships Bullis Charter School Slide Deck at http://bit.ly/BCSsteamK2
- 2. Bullis Charter School • K-8 Public Charter School • 720 Students Our Mission: Bullis Charter School offers a collaborative, experiential learning environment that emphasizes individual student achievement. As a model of educational innovation, BCS inspires children, faculty and staff to reach beyond themselves to achieve full potential. Using a global perspective to teach about the interconnectedness of communities and their environments, the Bullis Charter School program nurtures mutual respect, civic responsibility, and a life-long love of learning.
- 3. Education is Not the Filling of a Bucket but the Lighting of a Fire (Yeats)
- 4. Spark Students’ Imagination & Empower Them as Learners • STEAM Strand • Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics • Focus on Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Creativity • Use of Design Thinking and Project-Based Learning
- 5. Design Thinking • A creative problem-solving process • Includes d thinking dispositions • Learn fast • Risk taking • Growth mindset • Creative confidence • Includes d thinking mindsets • Show, don’t tell • Radical collaboration • Bias toward action • Culture of prototyping • Mindful process • Human-centered
- 6. Engineering
- 7. Design Thinking - Help Happy the Horse Student Pages for Activity (PDF)
- 9. Empathy: What does Happy like? • Carrots • Shade • To be brushed • Water •Hay •Jumping •People •Dogs
- 10. Empathy: What doesn’t Happy like? • Mud • Wind • Flies • Tumble Weed
- 11. Things that Happy likes Things that Happy doesn’t like Carrots Shade Grass Hay Water Toys People Dogs Flies Mud Dirty Water Tumble Weeds Define
- 12. What does Happy need? Draw at least three of your ideas. Ideate
- 13. Chose one idea Draw a circle around it.
- 14. Prototype - use up 10 LEGOs to build your idea
- 15. Test Share your idea with a partner.
- 19. The core idea of engineering design includes three component ideas: ● Defining ● Designing ● Optimizing
- 21. Build a Wall to Keep Happy Safe Student Pages for Activity (PDF)
- 22. Happy has been leaving his yard and crossing the street to eat his neighbor’s flowers. It is dangerous to cross the road and the flowers make him sick. The neighbor likes his flowers and doesn’t want Happy to eat them.
- 23. Define: Height ● Happy likes to look out on the street ● Happy can jump as high as 3 centimeters ● Happy can’t see over anything more than 4 centimeters tall ● A LEGO brick is _______ centimeter high The wall should be __________ centimeters high.
- 24. Define - Length ● The gap between the house and fence is 15 centimeters. ● Happy can fit through a 2 centimeter or larger gap. The wall should be at least __________ centimeters long.
- 25. Limiting Factors - Materials ● All bricks ( big, small and medium size) cost one dollar ($1) each ● Happy’s family has budgeted twenty dollars ($20) to purchase the bricks The wall can contain no more than ___________ bricks
- 26. Limiting Factors ● Happy likes to push against things with his head and knock them over. The wall must pass the ______________________ ___________________________________ test.
- 27. Advice You can use any Lego & Duplio bricks Where to get: families donate old legos, Craig’s List Choice/Extend: Students can work with a partner Teacher can create models to show as examples Extensions: 6th grade ancient history Meets NGSS & Common Core Standards
- 28. Literature Connections: Engineering & Inventing • Rosie Revere, Engineer (Andrea Beaty) • Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor (Emily Arnold McCully) • Violet the Pilot (by Steve Breen) • Papa's Mechanical Fish (Candace Fleming) • Awesome Dawson (Chris Gall ) • If I Built a Car (Chris Van Dusen) • Galimoto (Karen Lynn Williams) • George Crum and the Saratoga Chip (Gaylia Taylor ) • The Most Magnificent Thing (Ashley Spires) • Oh No! Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World (Mac Barnett)
- 29. Resources Next Generation Science Standards http://www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards K-2 Engineering and Design Standards Design Thinking d school (Stanford): http://dschool.stanford.edu/use-our-methods/ How to Apply Design Thinking in Class, Step by Step (Mindshift) PBS Kids Design Squad HFLI Elementary School’s K-5 Scope and Sequence for Design Challenges IDEO’s Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit Engineering and Making Engineering is Elementary website (includes curriculum, after school activities, and PD) How to teach Project-Based Engineering to Students Teaching NGSS Engineering Design Through Media (PBS Learning Media) Agency by Design website STEM/STEAM 8 Videos to Get Girls into STEM (Edutopia, 5 minute film festival) PBL and STEAM Education-a Natural Fit (Andrew Miller, Edutopia) 10 Innovative Ways to Bring STEM to Schools (Mindshift)
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