Title: Design a Coffee Mug
Name of NGM Educator: Wendy A. Ku, Project lead the Way Technology and Engineering Simsbury High School |
Name of Host Company: Trumpf, Inc. |
Grade Level: 9th - 12th (secondary) |
Student Work Types:
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Task Abstract: Students will work cooperatively in groups in designing a coffee mug. They will be required to brainstorm and record their ideas and design through an annotated sketch and present their ideas in a presentation to the class. |
Task Objectives: Students will:
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Esssential Understandings/Questions:
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Task Description: Students will have to work in groups to brainstorm a new design for a coffee mug. The students will work in groups and utilize the rules of brainstorming to generate ideas for a new design. |
Resources Required:
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Prior Learning Required: The design process, brainstorming rules, engineering notebook, annotated sketching |
Context within which work is produced:
Students will be required to keep an engineering journal containing sketches, data, revisions, and conclusions for their project. The journal will then be graded against a standard rubric. |
Individual or Group Work: Group work |
Special Needs: n/a |
Educator Comments: My experience at Trumpf, Inc. emphasized the importance of teaching proper technical communication skills, team work, and proper modeling skills. I was happy to see that what I have been and will be teaching in my classroom co-relates and integrates with what I learned.
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