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Week 16: Design Challenge

Ms. Melissa Etzler, an occupational therapist who works with children with cerebral palsy, needs your help to design a toy. She wants to use the toy during therapy with children who have physical, sensory, or cognitive challenges. Therapy can improve their ability to carry out everyday activities and interact with their environment in a comfortable way.

In this problem, you will follow the design process to create a toy for Ms. Etzler to use for therapy with children with cerebral palsy.
 Objectives:
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Students will...
  • ​Identify and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
  • Select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
  • Develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process. 
  • Apply knowledge and skills learned in this unit to design and build a prototype of a toy for use for therapy with children with cerebral palsy.
  • Use the design process to create a solution.
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​Activities:
Monday
  • Internet of Things Virtual Fieldtrip
  • Complete Student Handout 
​Tuesday
  • Activity 1 or Activity 2 (choice)
Wednesday:
  • Receive Design Challenge​
  • Complete Design Brief
Thursday:
  • Research About CP
  • Complete Research Webquest
  • Research Existing Solutions
Friday:
  • Finish Research Webquest
  • Generate Concepts
  • Create Sketches of at least 3 Toy Designs​
  • Should be Descriptive, Well Thought Out, Logical, and Deliberate
Due By Friday:
  • Completed Virtual Fieldtrip (During Activity Worksheet and Activity 1 or 2)
  • Completed Research Form
  • Shared Detailed Final Sketch 
Virtual Fieldtrip
virtual_fieldtrip-_internet_of_thing_during_activity.docx
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online sketchpad
cp_webquest.docx
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