Area of Interaction: Community and Service , Approaches to Learning & Human Ingenuity
Significant Concept: Design Cycle can be used to solve problems
Unit Question: How can my learning help my community? How do I make Sound Choices?
INVESTIGATE: (Write in complete sentences) Identify the Problem
1. What is the problem you need to solve? Explain to a 6th grader what the design cycle is all about by creating a presentation. (3d, PPT, movie, game, Poster)
2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? You can use the design cycle to create almost anything. It also keeps you organized.
3. How will this project serve my community? They will learn how to do the design cycle
4. How can my learning help my community? It will help my community by being organized
5. How do we live in relation to each other? Come in a group and work together
6. How does this help others? Being more organized, going in order, and smarter (;
7. What are the requirements for this assignment? teaching a 6th grader how to do the design cycle
8. What is the Design Cycle? First you have to investigate, plan, create, and evaluate.
REFLECT on your learning.
Day 2
9. Spend one day experimenting with DESIGN CYCLE your presentation. List five things your learned about the Design Cycle: That for the investigation you have to search for things on that. To plan you have to see how your going to make it and how it's going to come out. Create is by making it. Then evaluating is when your finished with everything and your ready to teach a 6th grader (;