Design Thinking

In order to brainstorm design solutions, one must be able to:

• Refine the design

• Retest the design

• Understand the problem needing to be solved

• Create a prototype

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A prototype should be constructed:

• In order to test a model of the design solution

• With model proportions that are the exact same size as they are in real life

• Using precise details and color

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True or false: If a prototype fails in a test run, the design should be refined and retested.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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Thinking up ideas and sketching them out on a piece of paper would be part of what process?

• Identifying the problem

• Brainstorming

• Testing a design

• Collecting data

Which of the following would be an example of refining a boat design?

• Creating a proportional model of a boat

• Testing a model boat in a pool of water

• Adding a flat bottom and pontoons to an existing model boat to increase stability and buoyancy

• Floating a model boat in a pool of water with a fan blowing to provide wind current

What does construct mean?

• build or erect (something, typically a building, road, or machine)

• draw or color (something like a coloring page)

• a challenge that arises when doing an experiment

What does observation mean?

• conducting an experiment to find results

• making a guess about what will happen next

• looking at something or someone carefully or in order to gain information

Characteristics mean....

• a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it

• the action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information

• the action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information:

What is a prototype?

• beginning model of something, especially a machine, from which other forms are developed or copied

• making a guess about what will happen next

• making an observation about the results from the lab

What does refine mean?

• improve (something) by making small changes

• predicting what will happen next

• conducting an experiment to determine if hypothesis is correct

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