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The Design and Technology Cycle in Grade One
Investigate/Research
Plan/Design
Create
Evaluate/Test
Grade One students have been guided through this unit of inquiry using the Design and Technology design cycle.
We figured that this would be the ideal way to check for their evidence of understanding of the central idea.
Using this rubric/continuum, we have been monitoring their understanding throughout the unit.
For a summative assessment, students will use what they learned about the facets of the design cycle and apply it toward designing a structure which has meaning to them.
Can you balance a book using only one piece of paper?
"If I trap the air in here, it will hold the book up."
Through this learning experience, students were challenged to use innovative ways to make a typically weak material paper (a piece of paper) strong.
Students were guided with the following questions:
- How can you manipulate the material to create a sturdy structure?
- What method can you use to make it stronger?
- How can your knowledge of 3-D shapes help your structure?
- What 3-D shapes can be used to improve your structure?
"I'm making something that will hold it like a building...This is a wall...I want to make four of these things fat for the edges...This is VERY frustrating!"
"I'm making it kind of like a shape, so it can balance. I put this, it is something so it can stand."
"We can make an airplane...The book can stand on the plane...If I fold it like a pocket, maybe it will stand."
