Design thinking: create your own marble run

Links to curriculum

  1. Identify

Costs

Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system (ACTDEK011)

Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (ACTDEK013)

Sustainable materials (recycle)

Constraints

Must be achievable within allocated school hours

Marble must run for 15 seconds

Develop some questions to consider

  1. Investigate

Implement some experiments and conduct research to determine the answers to investigation questions

What impacts on the speed of a marble run?

What materials could be used to make a marble run?

What does a marble run look like?

Determine results of investigation process

  1. Frame/Reframe

Brainstorm bad ideas

  1. Generate

Re-frame the problem

Plan and design the marble run

Create a sketch of the marble run

  1. Develop

Build the marble run

Record the marble run using the Explain Everything App

Test the marble run

Time it

Share with someone for feedback

Go back to the develop stage if changes are required

  1. Evaluate & Re-evalute