Design Challenges

Lesson Planning Overview

Design Thinking Lesson Template

How to Frame a Design Challenge (Stanford d.School)

HowToFrameADesignChallenge.pdf

Trinity design challenges and templates:

DesignFest Passport 2019: Caring for our Earth

Generic K-8 Template: Caring for our Earth (2019)

Designfest 2019 grade 3

Grade 3 : Helping endangered elephants (2019)

DesignFest 2019 4th grade

Grade 4: Recover Coral Reef Ecosystems (2019)

K-8 DesignFest Passport 2019: Caring for our Earth

8th + Kinder: Recycling (2019)

5 Redesign Story Preservation

5th grade Social Studies: Caves & Story preservation

Design Challenge - Being Human in the Stars

5th grade Social Studies: Early Man > Future Man (accompanying teaching slideshow)

Civilization by Design

6th grade Ancient Civilizations: Civilization by Design

6 Redesign the Gift-Giving Experience

6th grade history: Traditions: redesign the Gift-Giving Experience

Design Challenge: Outfitting Spelunkers for the Optimal Caving Experience

6th grade science: Outfitting Spelunkers (geology unit)

Design Challenge: Redesign the Morning Routine

General: Redesign the Morning Routine (anytime)

190815 Faculty DesignThinking Exercise: Carpool Handout

General: Redesign the Carpool Experience (faculty, 2019)

Work Week May 2018 Design Challenge

General: Redesign the Dining Hall Experience (LS faculty, 2018)

Design Sprint Workbook

General: Design one utensil for your friend's favorite two foods

16/08/25 Design Challenge: Redesign "the Backpack"

General: Redesign "personal items transport device"
(extra: carrying device examples)

2017 DesignFest Teacher Training Passport.pdf

Teacher Training: "Engineering Joy in Learning" (2017)

DesignFest Faculty Training 10/2

Teacher Training: "Making a World of Difference" (2018-19)

Work Week May 2018 Design Challenge

Design Thinking Everyday
Lower School Work Week (May, 2018)

"How Might We....?" idea starters from our Thought Leaders page:

Physical education

    • Design a new sport that utilizes _____ skills?

    • Design an exercise plan for injured or disabled

    • Bridge a gap between "sport" and "dance"?

    • How might we teach/learn importance of teamwork?

English

    • Character studies

    • Rewrite a play, TV sitcom for new conditions

Social Studies / History

    • Redesign the voting experience? / Increase voter participation?

    • How can we use AI to make things better for humans?

Science

    • Future of urban farming / food systems for tomorrow

    • How might we develop ways to reduce waste and derive more ongoing value from products and materials?

    • Improve our health care system

World Language

    • HMW promote cultural competency despite language barriers?

    • HMW redesign public spaces and/or signage (airports, highways, grocery stores...) for an increasingly multi-lingual community?

    • HMW redesign official forms and applications to minimize confusion and make the process more pleasant?

Creative Arts

    • HMW transform space and create community with art?

    • HMW educate people about _________ through art?

    • HMW communicate non verbally?

Math

    • Design the ultimate tiny house

    • Design a future kitchen for efficiency

    • Transform the banking experience

    • Create a board game / product / an eco-friendly home (inclusion of math integration into project budgeting)

    • Help young adults make smart financial decisions?

    • How might we design logistics and packaging that offer convenience, better resource utilization and reduced waste and pollution?

Various

    • Improve the grocery shopping experience?

    • Design the school of the future?

    • Redesign the hotel experience?

    • Improve the cafeteria experience?

    • Redesign the process of learning code? (see case study)