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CUSD Centennial Design Challenge

Engineering Design Teaching Slides

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*Note to teachers: These slides will help facilitate your students through the engineering design process. Feel free to adapt as necessary.

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Problem: The Campbell Historical Museum is creating an exhibit to celebrate our schools district’s 100 years, but it has been difficult to find stories from Campbell USD students from the past 100 years.

Challenge: We need your help to find these stories and share them with our community! How might we find and share the stories of the past? How might we tell our own stories? What do you think learning will look like in the future?

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Challenge: Design an exhibit that tells a story of the Campbell Union School District’s past, present, or future.

Criteria: (How we’ll know we’re successful)

  • Identify a story that students want to share from the district’s past, present, or future
  • Create a display that shares this story with our community

Constraints: (Our limitations)

  • Materials: Students may create physical (to be hung on the museum wall) or digital displays.
  • Time: Designs must be submitted by April 1st

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Ask:

  • What is an engineer?
  • What story do we want to tell? A story from past, the present, or the future?

Remember the Challenge: Design an exhibit that tells a story of the Campbell Union School District’s past, present, or future.

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Imagine:

  • Engineers, imagine some ways that we might tell this story?
  • Do we want to create a physical or digital display?
  • Let’s brainstorm some solutions!

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Remember the Challenge: Design an exhibit that tells a story of the Campbell Union School District’s past, present, or future.

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Plan:

  • As a team, decide on your favorite idea
  • Draw a diagram - label the parts
  • Make a list of the materials you will need

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Remember the Challenge: Design a prototype of the school experience in 2121.

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Create:

  • Follow your plan and create a prototype.
  • Test it out!

Remember the Challenge: Design an exhibit that tells a story of the Campbell Union School District’s past, present, or future.

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Test/Improve:

What works? What doesn’t?

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What could work better?

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Modify your design.

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Share your design with other members of the community to get feedback during our March Wonder Wednesday!