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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 6^th grader what the design cycle is all about by creating a presentation. (3d, PPT, movie, game, Poster)the problem i need to solve it how to explain the create part of the design cycle to a 6th grader.

2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world?the design cycle aplys to the real world by helping you when you go to college and get a job it will help you with many things.

3. How will this project serve my community?this project will help the comity by teaching 6th graders because they are our future.

4. How can my learning help my community?just like the 6th graders us 8th graders are also the future to our community.

5. How do we live in relation to each other?we live in relation to each other by helping and making this places better for us to live in.

6. How does this help others?the design cycle helps others by making the ire life in the real world easier and it helps us students by making our projects and our work better and more understanding. 

7. What are the requirements for this assignment?our blog assignment purpose was to help us keep us more organize in the computer and to show us how to work with the computers.

8. What is the Design Cycle?

REFLECT on your learning.the design cycle is a progress that will help do a better job in our school assignments and in any other projects that we have.the design cycle can also help us when we grow up and we go out into the real whorl.that's how the design cycle will help us in every day life when we use it. 

Day 2

9. Spend one day experimenting with DESIGN CYCLE your presentation. List five things your learned about the Design Cycle:today i have decided that i will choose an art drawing book and I'm going to compare it to an art book that i make my self .i will use this to help the 6th graders to understand the design cycle and what they are going to be learning during there middle school years and how it will help them in every day life when they grow up.That is what i am going to do to teach the 6th graders on the design cycle.I'am also going to help my self with this project by doing the design cycle.

Day 3

Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment?

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment?

13. How will you "test" your presentation?

REFLECT ON YOUR LEARNING

PLAN:

14. Brainstorm ideas. Use the chart below

IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf found in schoology under “materials”& then files

15. What idea did you choose to demonstrate the design cycle and why did you choose it?

16. Does your idea meet all of the requirements?

17. Use the story board paper below to plan your presentation.  Include how many levels you will have, what will be on each level, how will you include teaching skills to young students, and what will your questions be about.

story board.pdf found in schoology under “materials” & then files.

18. Explain how you will use your time to get your project finished in 12 days:

REFLECT on your learning

EVALUATE:

20. How could you improve your presentation?

21. Does your presentation meet all of the requirements?

22. Share your presentation with at least 2-8^th, 3-9^th, 4-10^th+ friends. What did he/she like about your presentation?

23. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve?

24. Were you responsible in using the software, Internet, pictures, and computer?

25. How can my learning help my community?

26. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6)

ATTITUDE:

27. Reflect on your attitude on each step of the Design Cycle. Did you completely answer each step without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard". Explain your answer:

28. What grade do you deserve on your attitude? (1 - 6)