Summer Design Fun

Grades 6 - 12 Design Skills to Learn & Improve:

• 2D pencil drawings: Sketching and Technical Drawing

• 2D drawing: Adobe Illustrator

• 3D Design: Adobe Fusion

• Programming (Scratch and Tynker are good starting points for those with little experience)

Video & Animation Production

• Video Production Tips

• Screencasting

• Animation: Adobe Character and Animate

• Video Production: Adobe Premiere

• Video Production: iMovie

Grade 11 & 12 Design Design Skills & Reading:

• Besides improving pencil and digital drawing skills listed above, grades 11 & 12 design students in the DP can look ahead to units and reading by visiting this link. 

• Also look at the DP Design course requirements at this link. 

Design & Engineering Challenges for All Students

The basic design cycle/process is below. We encourage you all to utilize these aspects when you work through a design challenge. 

1. Research the problem to understand it better, and find solutions that have already been created

2. Develop your own solution: Sketch and Draw ideas

3. Create/Build the solution

4. Present the solution, get feedback and improve it....continue the cycle

Design & Engineering Challenges:

• https://www.steampoweredfamily.com/activities/summer-stem-activities/

• https://www.pinterest.com/pin/95771929552863111/ 

• https://www.pltw.org/blog/20-super-cool-summer-stem-activities

• https://www.teachengineering.org/editorspicks