Sharing the Planet
Sharing the Planet
🏠 Energy Home Designs 🏠
🏠 Energy Home Designs 🏠
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🛠 PROTOTYPE 🎨
🛠 PROTOTYPE 🎨
The goal of a prototype is to take the creative thinking that you have done through inquiry and ideation and put it into action. It's time to CREATE and MAKE something!
The goal of a prototype is to take the creative thinking that you have done through inquiry and ideation and put it into action. It's time to CREATE and MAKE something!
It can be a digital work or a 3-D model, a work of art or something you engineer. Prototypes can be high-tech to low-tech or even no tech. In this phase, the goal is to take the creative thinking that you have done through inquiry and ideation and put it into action. Failing forward is key to evolving and improving your prototype.
It can be a digital work or a 3-D model, a work of art or something you engineer. Prototypes can be high-tech to low-tech or even no tech. In this phase, the goal is to take the creative thinking that you have done through inquiry and ideation and put it into action. Failing forward is key to evolving and improving your prototype.
Prototype1.mp3Click "▶️" to listen
WATCH the video to learn more about what it means to prototype.
Now that we have learned about our creative problem and brainstormed solutions, it's time to prototype! This means you will be building your design and making improvements along the way.
Think show, not tell. Use your strongest ideas and get feedback from others to help you improve your design along the way.
Prototype2.mp3Click "▶️" to listen
Energy Home Planning Page
Energy Home Planning Page
Planning and Drawing your Design
STP Prototype PlanningPage.mp3Click "▶️" to listen
Use the planning page in your Google Classroom to help you design your prototype. This will help you to think through your design as you choose energy sources and decide what materials you will need to build your energy home!
Use the planning page in your Google Classroom to help you design your prototype. This will help you to think through your design as you choose energy sources and decide what materials you will need to build your energy home!
When you finish your planning page, use a blank sheet of paper to create a technical drawing of your energy home. This will be your "blueprint" for your design. Label the parts and energy sources in your design as you draw your "blueprint".
When you finish your planning page, use a blank sheet of paper to create a technical drawing of your energy home. This will be your "blueprint" for your design. Label the parts and energy sources in your design as you draw your "blueprint".
The Design Process
The Design Process
Check out the document below, describing how engineers use the design process.
Think about how you will build, test, and redesign your energy home to make improvements along the way.
STP Prototype DesignProcess.mp3Click "▶️" to listen
🏠 IT'S Time to Build!! ♼✂️📦🔋
🏠 IT'S Time to Build!! ♼✂️📦🔋
Creating your Energy Home prototype
STP Prototype Build/Rubric.mp3Click "▶️" to listen
Use the ➡️keys to click through some energy home examples from other 3rd graders!
Before you start building, please review the Energy Home Challenge Rubric. This will help you to plan for building and presenting your Energy Home prototype.
Before you start building, please review the Energy Home Challenge Rubric. This will help you to plan for building and presenting your Energy Home prototype.
Following the investigation and planning phase, you will use materials within your home to construct your shoebox energy home. If you do not have a shoebox, you could use any empty box, or container. Please don’t buy anything new to build with. Consider using any resources that you have that you can reuse again.
Examples- salad containers, paper towel rolls, foil, popsicle sticks, yarn, Q-tips, paper clips, old xmas lights, construction paper, markers
You will need to include at least 3 energy sources (renewable and non-renewable) in your home.
Cardboard Construction:
Cardboard Construction:
Here are some tips and tricks to help you build your design.
How could you use these techniques to help you build?
Source: Manuel Herrera (2019)
Source: The Art of Education (2019)
Source: The Art of Education (2019)
STP Prototype Cardboard.mp3Click "▶️" to listen
Please use the navigation icons below to CLICK through each stage of the Design Cycle. Learning engagements and resources will be linked to Google Classroom on each page.
NavigateTHE DESIGN CYCLE
Click to go to EMPATHIZE
Click to go to DEFINE
Click to go to IDEATE
Click to go to PROTOTYPE
Click to go to TEST and REFLECT
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