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The Design Museum: Can You Redesign an Object to Make It Easier to Use?
Grant Douglas has cerebral palsy and needs assistance to eat. While he was sitting at home being fed cornflakes by his mum, the phone rang. She answered it and as she talked, Grant could see his cornflakes getting soggier and soggier....
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 15. Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a process for designing something to solve a problem. It shares a lot of similarities to the Engineering Design Process you might learn in a STEM class and the Scientific Method you learn in science. However, it tends...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Chair Design
Students become familiar with the Engineering Design Process as they design and build prototypes for a chair. The miniature chair must be sturdy and functional enough to hold a wooden, hinged artist model or floppy stuffed animal.
University of Hawai'i
University of Hawai'i: Exploring Our Fluid Earth: Activity: Design a Ship
In this activity, students apply their knowledge of buoyancy and ship stability to design a model ship. They test, evaluate, and refine the design of the model to optimize performance. Background information and other activities are...
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Synthesis Engineering Services: Optimizing the Design Process
This article discusses the design process from the concept phase to the production phase and what's involved in accomplishing this in the shortest possible time with the least cost.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: Obama Designates Three New National Monuments
Read about the designation of new national monuments.
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Smashing Magazine: Product Design Principles: How Does Your Product Stack Up?
The purpose of this article is to answer the question, "What do the greatest product designers consider to be the most important product design principles, and how can we apply them to our products?" In this article, you will learn six...
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Milwaukee Art Museum: Design a New Product
Teams of students work cooperatively to choose the ten greatest inventions from a list of likely candidates and compile the list in a graph. Teams of students work cooperatively to design, invent, and build a model of something new,...
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Powerhouse Museum: Australian Graphic Designer at Work
From the Powerhouse Museum of Sydney, Australia this is the graphic designer section of the on-line exhibit and activity center, "Australian Designers at Work". This page examines the life and work of graphic designer Ray Parslow.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: The Stowaway Adventure: Engineering Lesson: Designing Your Own Travel Bag
After listening to the presented scenario, students are asked to design, create, and test a prototype of a bag that can carry their belongings and meet certain criteria.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Ets1 1:activities and Videos: Health and Improving Lives
This PBS site contains activities that are hands-on challenges, animations, career profiles, and videos that focus on the engineering design process. They use simple materials, allow for multiple solutions, and are ideal for ages 9-12.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Design and Build a Rube Goldberg
In this two-part activity, students design and build a Rube Goldberg machine. The open ended problem uses the engineering design process and can have a preset purpose, such as rolling a marble into a cup from a distance, or can be left...
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Boeing: Engine Design: Pass the Test
In this phase, students will narrow down their engine designs to test.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Speedy Shelter
This challenge is to design and build a sturdy emergency shelter that can fit one person and easy to build. Are you up to the challenge?
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Heavy Lifting
This challenge is to design and build a crane and determine how heavy a load it can lift.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Watercraft
Can you design and build a watercraft that will keep 25 pennies afloat for at least 10 seconds? Give it a try!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Paper Table
Use your creativity to design and build a paper table, at least 8 inches tall, that is strong enough to hold a heavy book. Challenge your friends to see whose table can hold the most weight.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Hidden Alarm
Design and build a small alarm that is easily hidden. Think of places you would like to hide an alarm.
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Cast: What Is Universal Design for Learning (Udl)?
Learn about Universal Design for Learning, which uses new brain research and new media technologies to respond to learner differences. Check outcome suggestions of how to use UDL and easily integrate various forms of technology into the...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Robotic Arm
A challenge that asks students to move a marble, a straw, and a coin from the table into a cup using a robotic arm they designed. The site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design Your Own Metamaterial
Do you think you can things invisible? In this design challenge, students will make a structure that can change how waves move and learn how to make things invisible! This site includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Powerful Bird Wing
Can you spin around in an office chair when you flap your powerful bird wings? In this challenge, students will design and build a powerful bird wing that can spin you around in an office chair when you flap it. This website contains...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Set of Mechanical Genes
Design a set of mechanical genes that control the way something grows with this challenge on this site. This site also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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