Overview
Stages
Design awareness
design for function
design with empathy
design for change
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overview
Stages
Design awareness
design for function
design with empathy
design for change
Team

Design for Function

Build fast. Break things. Build better.

Push through your student’s idea anxiety with a set of hands-on challenges that welcome failure in order to find success.

Learn MoreExplore Challenges
By practicing Design Awareness students will learn how to:

1. Define Challenge

2. Ideate

3. Prototype, Test, & Refine

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*Changemaker K-12 Design Awareness is adapted from the thinking routines developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has been developed with help from a National Science Foundation Grant.
STEP
1

Define Challenge

Step 1
Launchpad
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Design for Function
Step 1
Define Challenge

Bug List

What does it mean to define a challenge or problem?

30 min
STEP 1
EXTENDED
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STEP
2

Ideate

Step 2
Launchpad
After finishing "Bug List" from Step 1
Design for Function
Step 2
Ideate

Ideation Practice

What are some ways you use to come up with ideas to solve a challenge?

30 min
STEP
3

Prototype, Test, & Refine

Step 3
Launchpad
After you've completed both steps 1 and 2
Design for Function
Step 3
Prototype, Test, & Refine

Pom Pom Launcher

How does prototyping, testing, and refining result in higher quality designs?

30 min

Finished with Design for Function Challenges?

Your students are now ready to move on to the next stage of becoming Changemakers. It's time to Design with Empathy.

Design with Empathy
Design Awareness
Step 1
Zoom In

Parts & Purposes

Why are things designed the way they are? Become your very own design detective and investigate the overlooked clues of our designed world.

30 min