Week 17 (7) - DMS GTT

Week 17: 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:
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.

Activities:
Monday

Finish Design Brief

Tuesday

Research About CP
Begin Research Webquest

Wednesday

Research Existing Solutions
Complete Research Webquest

Thursday:

Generate Concepts
Create Sketches of at least 3 Toy Designs
Should be Descriptive, Well Thought Out, Logical, and Deliberate

Friday:

Complete Decision Matrix
Begin Working on Detailed Final Sketch

Due By Friday:

Completed Research Form
Completed 3 Concept Sketches
Completed Decision Matrix

online sketchpad

cp_webquest.docx
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generating_concepts_and_developing_a_solution.docx
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