Learning Goals
Students individually research an aspect of the challenge.
Students collaborate to organize their process to do the challenge.
General Description
This challenge is scaffolded less so that students begin to develop independence and agency in their thinking and skills. While this challenge has both hardware and software design, the main focus is the design of the app with respect to the user.
The teacher will introduce the challenge through one short video. Students will research aspects of the problem and the hardware used in the challenge individually then come together in a group to summarize their research to identify the relevance of the problem, and the process that the group will use.
Activity 1 (10 minute budget)
Teacher introduces the challenge.
1. Teacher shows Asthma and Climate Change video (2 minutes) and hands out the Challenge Scenario. The instructor then explains that asthma and other respiratory sufferers could use an inexpensive device with an app that recommends activity levels. The teacher also shares that there are other design thinking methods such as Composite Character and User-Driven Prototyping that could help with the design of this challenge.
After giving students time to read over the challenge, the teacher has students do a think pair share on what they know about the challenge and what they need to know. The teacher records student responses on post it note paper to segue in to having the students do individual research.
Activity 2 (1 hour budget)
Students individually research an aspect of the challenge and collaboratively define their process to do the challenge.
Students will research different aspects of the challenge, both contextually (climate change and asthma) and technically (arduino and hc-05). It is suggested that students continue to use the Review the Challenge Form. Ask students to decide what they will individually research and who in the group is responsible to share that research with the group.
Have students come together with their research and use the skills they have learned in the engineering design process and design thinking to define their initial process with projected dates of tasks/mode completion.