This is a great Skill Builder to do first! It is a great introduction to the Design Thinking Process.
Click here to view the rest of the videos from our Ready, Set, Design Skill Builder! Their challenge in this Skill Builder? Design a product that would help to keep babies warm in cold weather.
This prototype is called the Desert Rover 2.0. The students learned that cacti suffer from soil pollution due to underground propane tanks rusting, breaking open, and releasing gas into the soil. They created this self-propelled robot that filtered the soil for the cacti.
These students wanted to help save the Eurasian Otters. They learned that Eurasian Otters suffer from habitat loss due to their water being taken by humans. They created this water filtration system that filtered flood water. The idea is that the humans would use this filtered water for themselves.
Here you are looking at the EMC20 and the Fen HR. These students learned that Bengal Tigers die due to droughts because they don't have enough water. This product lets out EMC20 which cancels out carbon dioxide. This will help because the carbon dioxide creates Greenhouse Gases and global warming.
These boys are on a mission to save dolphins from pollution, specifically objects like plastic left in the ocean. Their product sucks the pollution up into a chamber. Once the chamber fills up all of the pollution goes back to land in a tunnel system.
In order to help the students break down and better understand the Making Process we created eight different handouts broken into phases to use with the students. (To help differentiate between the different phases, we printed each phase on a different color paper.) This worked very well with our students. You can use these documents to help guide your students through the Making Process. Just make a copy of each and change the text to match your provocation.