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How to Design a Better Smartphone Case
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Langston, Marjorie Demarse, Maggie Phelps, Courtney Weaver, Jill |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Students follow the steps of the engineering design process to design an improved smartphone case. As if they are materials engineers, they evaluate how to build a smartphone case and study physical properties, chemical properties, and tessellations. They analyze materials, design and improve a prototype model and graph their test results. Engineers create and use new materials, as well as new combinations of existing materials to design innovative new products and technologies—all based upon the chemical and physical properties of given substances. In this activity, students act as materials engineers as they learn about and use chemical and physical properties including tessellated geometric designs and shape to build better smartphone cases. Guided by the steps of the engineering design process, they analyze various materials and substances for their properties, design/test/improve a prototype model, and create a dot plot of their prototype testing results. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado The University of Dayton, Central State University and Wright State University |
| Subject Keyword | Geometry Science and Technology |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT10H |
| Education Level | Class VIII Class IX Class X |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Geometry Technical |
