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Wear’s the Technology?
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
|---|---|
| Author | Pyne, Evelynne Blue, Lauchlin Carlson, Denise W. |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Description | Students apply their knowledge of scale and geometry to design wearables that would help people in their daily lives, perhaps for medical reasons or convenience. Like engineers, student teams follow the steps of the design process, to research the wearable technology field (watching online videos and conducting online research), brainstorm a need that supports some aspect of human life, imagine their own unique designs, and then sketch prototypes (using Paint®). Students apply their knowledge of scale and geometry to design wearables that would help people in their daily lives, perhaps for medical reasons or convenience. Like engineers, student teams follow the steps of the design process, to research the wearable technology field (watching online videos and conducting online research), brainstorm a need that supports some aspect of human life, imagine their own unique designs, and then sketch prototypes (using Paint®). They compare the drawn prototype size to its intended real-life, manufactured size, determining estimated length and width dimensions, determining the scale factor, and the resulting difference in areas. After considering real-world safety concerns relevant to wearables (news article) and getting preliminary user feedback (peer critique), they adjust their drawn designs for improvement. To conclude, they recap their work in short class presentations. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado Michigan State University |
| Subject Keyword | Measurement Number and Operations Problem Solving Science and Technology New Technology Medical Monitoring Scaling Up New Products Make It Wearable Wearables Intel Make It Wearable Challenge Wearable Technology Medical Technology Proportionality Technology Advancements Communication Scaling Wearable Monitoring Scaling Down Advanced Technology Perimeter Geometry Mathematics Ratio |
| Content Type | Text Video |
| Time Required | PT2H |
| Education Level | Class VI Class VII Class VIII |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity Lecture cum Demonstration |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Number Sense and Numeration Geometry Technical |
