AGENDA

1.            DO NOW: Reflect on your progress and rate yourself using criterion A: Investigation-QUIA (20 min)(summative assessment-60%)

2.             Guided Practice: Students will learn what design specifications are & give samples.  Demonstrate Design Specifications tests. (10 min) 

3.            Independent Practice: PUBLISH TO YOUR BLOG Design Brief +Design Specifications for your product.(30 min)

DESIGN SPECIFICATION

The Design Specification is the most crucial element of the Investigate phase of the Design Cycle


A good Design Specification should include information that you learned about the task/problem from your research.
It is a list of requirements that your design ideas must meet plus a list of constraints that you have. It is the check list that you need to use when you start to make your design ideas.
 After your research you can develop a Design Specification.

DESIGN BRIEF, DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS & TEST DUE AT END OF PERIOD-by THURSDAY-CUT THIS FROM YOUR FIRST POST AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

 Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment? 

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment?

13. How will you "test" your project?

STUDENT SAMPLE!! DO NOT COPY THIS IS AN EXAMPLE!! Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it.  For my project I am going to create a Storybook/ Comic Strip that describes the Design Cycle in a very simple way.  I am going to make it so that a 6th grader can comprehend the Design Cycle without getting confused.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment?  My assignment must be clear and simple to understand and under 2 minutes.

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment?  The limitations of this project is the time because 2 minutes is not long enough to be able to thoroughly explain the design cycle.

13. How will you "test" your project?  I will test my project by giving out surveys/ tests to the 6th graders and review how well their answer and responses are.

DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS

•   Simple for a 6th grader to understand

•   Teach a 6th grader the Design Cycle

•   6th graders will be able to identify the steps of the Design Cycle

•   Will be a minimum of 2 minutes long

•   About 5 pages long on Storybook

•   Not that distracting from the point

•   Made by Comic Master program online

•   Possible to transfer onto a pen drive

•   Be able to use while offline

•   Possible to save and copy

•   Must be able to be created in given time

•   Simple to base off another project

•   Can not be too difficult to break

Test

I will give them a survey that has 10 test questions about the design cycle.

I could test my product if it was successful or not by analyzing the students surveys.  I will be successful if they are able to answer 7 out of the 10 corrections on their survey.