SNC1W Design Thinking CPT Workbook
SNC1W Design Thinking CPT Workbook
SNC1W Design Thinking CPT Workbook
Which design
challenge do you want
to solve?
• Jodi is a science teacher at St. Elizabeth CHS. After seeing • Andrew is a grade-10 student at St. Elizabeth and while he's
students online and wearing masks for the past couple of done reasonably well when studying from textbooks, he
years, she really wants to run more classes outdoors. prefers to work with his hands.
• She's had conversations with other teachers from various • For example, in grade 6 he had a teacher who often asked
departments about what aspects of their respective them to build physical models for math class and grow plants
curriculums could be taught outside instead of relying on at home for science class. Those classes were a lot of fun and
textbooks. Andrew felt like he learned a lot.
• Jodi has some initial ideas but is having trouble visualizing how • As pandemic continued, Andrew has been feeling more and
entire lessons could be facilitated outside and meet more that he's tuning out and his mind is wandering off in
curriculum requirements. class.
OPTIONAL
What is missing in those
options? How do these
solutions fall short of what
your persona needs?
OPTIONAL
What would make our
persona choose our
design instead of any
of the other options?
Be specific.
ACTIVITY 4: BUILD A PROTOTYPE
WHAT COULD YOU USE TO SHOW YOUR SOLUTION?
Create a list of materials along side your sketch of your solution/prototype you made previously.
All materials must be approved by your teacher prior to building your prototype.
ACTIVITY 5-1: TESTING YOUR PROTOTYPE
WHAT IS YOUR PLAN TO TEST?
Note: You must collect QUANTITATIVE DATA for analysis
identify the
independent variable
and dependant
variable.
Make a step-by-step
procedure of your
test. How many trials
will your perform?
The Challenge & Your Persona Your Solution Design & Feedback
Which challenge have you selected? What are you using to show your prototype?
What would be your criteria to evaluate success in this test? What are 3 career paths that could potentially help build your solution?
ACTIVITY 8: BUILD YOUR STORY OUTLINE
SHARING YOUR SOLUTION DESIGN
• Your group will set-up a station and the class will be given an
opportunity to walk around and learn about the different
designs/challenges
ACTIVITY 9: REFLECTION
WHAT WILL YOU TAKE AWAY?
What skillsets did
you use during this
challenge, and how
could you continue to
use these in the
future?