Designing Design Tasks
John Gucua teaches fifth graders in Chemsford, MA,
and in 2002 attended a course at the University of Massachusetts
in Lowell on using pre-engineering design activities
in a classroom. After completing this course, John applied
for and received a grant for creating a solar house
design activity for his students. Listen in Movie 1
to John's design process and strategies in making his
own design activity, and compare it to the Generic
Design Model or the 7
Models of the Design Process depicted in DITC:
- Using Iterations to help his design evolve over
time.
- Doing Research creatively to make some early design
decisions.
- Finding and Solving Emergent Problems including
designing and making solar panels for his after-school
fifth-grade pilot students that were safe and easy
to wire.
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