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)

2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? The design cycle is part of the real world because people use it everyday and even in your daily job u use a plan to show your boss what u are thinking of to help your job.

3. How will this project serve my community? It will help my community to have a movie and will show which one is better for my community and that will help my community out.

4. How can my learning help my community? My learning will help my community out because now they will know which source is better to use.

5. How do we live in relation to each other? We live in relation with each other because we help each other find the best things in life to use and be helping each other..

6. How does this help others? This helps others because we will know what to use now.

7. What are the requirements for this assignment? We have two sources and see which source is better and one that you can rely on.

8. What is the Design Cycle? The Design cycle is Plan,Create,Investigate,Design.

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:1. The Design cycle helps u learn with the Daily life.
2.The design cycle helps you be more creative and helps you learn more.
3.The designs cycle's create helps u to create your design cycle.
4.The investigation helps u to investigate the best thing.
5.The evaluation helps in to make sure this answer is right.

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. I'm going to make a song video and i want to make it because it is good and every one like music videos.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment? The requirements are to use the Design Cycle

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? You have to have a plan to use and thats why we need to do it.

13. How will you "test" your presentation? You will test your design cycle and show which one is better.

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? My ideas for demonstrating the design cycle is to be sucsessful and to always stay on tasks.

16. Does your idea meet all of the requirements? Yes because i'm gonna use all of the design cycle.

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)