Welcome to MS Design!
Mission
The TKS Middle School Design Program aims to create learners who understand the complex and diverse environments we are a part of and provide our learners with the skills and knowledge for problem-solving in the real world using a combination of design thinking and skills-based learning. The MYP Design Cycle will demonstrate critical thinking, creativity, and application to real-world problems and solutions presented during the program. By the end of middle school, the TKS middle school design alumni will be confident global citizens. Students will be able to think with purpose and creativity (head), empathize with various situations (heart), make products, and use tools to successfully create solutions to address the problems presented (hand).
chileshe.chisulo@thekaustschool.org
nathaniel.erickson@thekaustschool.org
jon.denhartigh@thekaustschool.org
Over the three years in the Middle School program, you will learn:
Coding: Javascript, C/C++,
Product Design: Workshop Tools and Safety
Digital Design: Computer Aided Design (CAD) for laser cutting and 3D printing
Graphic Design Principles
Electronics
Sketching/Drawing
Safety is our priority in the Design HUB. Students and parents will be asked to acknowledge a Lab Safety Agreement on PowerSchool at the beginning of each year or semester.
Grade 6
Sign Me Up - Graphic Design
Sumobots - Lego Mindstorms
Mazerunner - Scratch Coding/3D Print Modeling (CAD)
Makey Makey - coding/simple circuits
Grade 7
Today's Your Birthday - Graphic Design
MicroBit Wellness - coding/simple circuits
Wild Thing - CAD/Introduction to woodworking tools
All the Right Spaces - Space design
Grade 8
Now You See Me - Graphic Design
CAM Toys/Automatica - Engineering Design
Introduction to Arduino - electronics/coding
Shark Tank - cumulative Project
Iterative Design - modeling
Pewter Mold Casting - CAD
Advanced Arduino - electronics/coding
Free Choice - Cumulative Project
toddle - For instructions, communication, and submission of your deliverables (the work you've done).
TKS Design Website (where you are) - for all resources relating to your unit. We will keep updating this site so keep coming here first with any questions.
Expectations for each assignment will be clearly defined for each task. Assessments will be regularly checked, and students will also have check-ins and meetings to review project status as well.