Design thinking: create your own marble run
Links to curriculum
- 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
- 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
- Frame/Reframe
Brainstorm bad ideas
- Generate
Re-frame the problem
Plan and design the marble run
Create a sketch of the marble run
- 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
- Evaluate & Re-evalute