Amanda Solarsh & Gina TesorieroSimon Baruch Middle School New York City Department of EducationGrades 6-8

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Session #2198

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Create your own

Criteria and Constraints grounded in real world

Prompt & 21st century skills

Prototyping Methods

Success in the classroom

Method of Prototyping

Real World Prompt

Criteria and Constraints

Determining Success

Scale Model

Life Sized Model

Computer Simulation

Paper Prototyping

Prototypes are a key step in the development of a final solution, allowing the designer to test how the solution will work.

Method of Prototyping

Real World Prompt

Criteria and Constraints

Determining Success

The prompt & 21st Century Skills

Urban Farming

You are an environmental engineer seeking to revolutionize the urban farming practices in New York City. You would like to collaborate with urban farmers in Tokyo because Tokyo’s local agriculture produces enough vegetables to feed almost 700,000 city dwellers. You will need to conduct research to determine the institution or scientist best fit for this collaboration and come up with a plan to overcome obstacles such as time difference and language barrier. Then, develop an urban farming model that can be used in NYC.

Green Energy

You are an environmental activist that is passionate about green energy. Your goal is to communicate best practices in sustainable energy. You will need to research the methods used by countries that use 80%- 100% green energy; such as Iceland, Lesotho, Albania, Paraguay, Bhutan, Mozambique, and Norway. Create a plan for green energy that can be communicated across cultures. Ensure that your methods will be viable solutions for at least two different cultures speaking different languages taking the geography of the country into consideration. ( Ideas for communication: Visual Flyer/ Info Graphics or PSA with translated subtitles)

Method of Prototyping

Real World Prompt

Criteria and Constraints

Determining Success

Criteria and Constraints Connecting to the real world

(and aligning to the NGSS engineering standards)

Cost Safety Reliability Aesthetics Risk Mitigation Social Impacts Cultural Impacts Environmental Impacts

Method of Prototyping

Real World Prompt

Criteria and Constraints

Determining Success

Real World Prompt: The World Health Organization says that every year more than 3.4 million people die as a result of water related diseases, making it the leading cause of disease and death around the world. Most of the victims are young children, the vast majority of whom die of illnesses caused by organisms that thrive in water sources contaminated by raw sewage.

Design challenge: You work for the World Health Organization and you have been given the task of designing. a solar cooker that will heat water to 150 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the temperature that is needed to pasteurize, the microorganisms that cause diseases from drinking contaminated water.