is proud to sponsor JASON Learning’s

2018 Design Challenge

Living Well Designing Fun Ways to Stay

Active and Healthy

Design Challenge Details: ● Who: 3rd - 8th grade students ● Teams: Students work in teams of 2-3 to complete the design challenge. ● Friday Oct. 19: Teachers submit videos of top student team’s design presentation. ● Friday Oct. 26: Teams are notified if they have been selected as a Greater

Houston Area Finalist. ● Friday, Nov. 16: Finalists present their Living Well Challenge Designs at

TransOcean’s Office (4 Greenway Plaza, Houston).

Living Well Design Challenge Submission Form Submit your team’s presentation video and at Bit.ly/2018LivingWellSubmit by Friday Oct. 19, 2018 You will need to provide the information below to complete your submission. School District Name: ___________________________ School Name: _________________________________ School Principal email: __________________________ Teacher sponsor name(s): _______________________ Teacher sponsor email: _________________________ Grade Level: _________________ Name of Design Project: __________________________________ Team member’s names: _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Hyperlink and password (if needed) to presentation:

Design Thinking: Living Well Creating An Active Healthy Community Space

Introduction

One hundred years ago, the average baby in America could expect to live about 35 years. Today, you can expect to live more than twice that long, at least 70 or 75 years. There are many reasons for this increase in life expectancy: better food, improved hygiene, and modern medicines. And our lives have not only become longer; our quality of life is better. If you take care of yourself, you can expect to stay active for many, many years.

Last year, something alarming happened. For the first time in over 20 years the life expectancy of a new baby actually went down. Many factors are thought to be at the root of this problem, but most researchers agree that we need to refocus on finding ways to live healthy and happy lives.

We can apply ideas from science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to find ways to stay active and healthy. Scientific studies help us understand more about how nutrition, stress, exercise, and other factors combine to affect our health. Engineers are inventing new ways to help us be healthy, from the design of buildings to new exercise technology. The power of social media is being used to help us stay motivated, and many new apps are helping us keep track of our diet and exercise.

Scientists and engineers are always working to design solutions to help us stay active and healthy. These are complex problems, and they require complex thinking. Design thinking is a powerful way to develop solutions to complex problems. It starts with defining the problem and understanding how that problem affects people. Then it requires brainstorming many, many ideas and designing and testing prototypes of those ideas. In this type of design, failure is just part of the process. There is room for improvement in every design.

There is much we can already do to stay active and healthy. But there is also much more we could do. And that is where you come in. By applying your understanding of STEM skills and knowledge and by using design thinking, you can come up with new and innovative solutions to help YOUR community stay active and healthy.

Your Day of Design Challenge is to design an active, healthy community space as a solution to help your community live well.

PART 1. IMAGINE A SOLUTION

STEP 1. Imagine an “Ideal” Solution

As a team, generate ideas of what your team thinks is the “ideal” design for an active, healthy community

space.

Describe and draw what your team’s current thinking is about what would be the “ideal” design for your community.

PART 1. IMAGINE A SOLUTION

STEP 2. Dig into The Problem

Now research the design of an active, healthy community space.

• Use internet resources to find out how other communities have met this design challenge. • Interview people who live in your community who could be future “users” of your designed space. • If possible, interview someone who works to keep people active and healthy (an expert).

Using the strategies listed above, research answers to the 4 questions below, and other questions your team thinks are important.

Q1: What strategies are already being used to create active, healthy community spaces? Which of these work and which don’t work? Why?

Record what your team learned here

PART 1. IMAGINE A SOLUTION

Q2: What is the most important thing your users want active, healthy community spaces to accomplish?

Record what your team learned here:

Q3: What does your users’ “ideal” solution for an active, healthy community space look like?

Sketch or describe it here:

PART 1. IMAGINE A SOLUTION

Q4: What is stopping your users from making or using their “ideal” solution? Is it money, rules, lack of technology or materials?

Record what your team learned here:

Answers to other questions your team asked (if needed):

Summarize key findings from your team’s research in the space below:

Record what your team learned here:

Step 2 : continued

Compare your team’s “ideal” design from Step 1 to what you learned from your research in Step 2. What features of your “ideal” solution do you think will work and which won’t? Why?

Record your team’s thinking here:

STEP 3. Create Alternatives to Test Imagine at least 3 different ways to meet your “users” needs. Make sure that each is as different as possible from the next. Sketch your 3 or more ideas here:

Ask your “users” or other teams in your classroom what they think of your ideas. Record what your team learns from the feedback here:

PART 2. PROTOTYPE YOUR SOLUTION

STEP 1. Finalize Your “Ideal” Solution

Based on all the insights your team has gained, sketch your team’s final “ideal” design for an active, healthy community space to help your community live well in the space below.

STEP 2. Create a Prototype (model)

Using the resources available to you, create a prototype of your design that will fit on and be supported by one 24” by 36” foam core board. It might not match your ideas completely. But it should help bring your ideas to life for your users, and allow your users to give you any last-minute feedback or suggestions.

PART 3. SHARE YOUR SOLUTION

Now it’s time to tell your users and your community about your solution. Using the resources available to your team, create a presentation (with pictures if possible) and your prototype to share your solution, how it works, and anything you have learned about it (use the guidelines below to guide your presentation). Don’t be afraid to share ideas or designs that didn’t work. These are important because they inform your audience about the tough challenges and allow others to learn from your team. Your teacher will videotape your presentation, so your team can share the story of your adventure as a DESIGN THINKERS!

Be sure to keep in mind the guidelines below as your team creates your presentation:

Presentation Guidelines

Time

5 minutes minimum 10 minutes maximum

Research

Share how your research informed your thinking and final design

Design

Describe your design for your community and how it meets the challenge of promoting a healthy and active lifestyle. Include a prototype that fits on and whose weight can be supported by one 24” by 36” foam core board. Share ideas of how to make your team’s dream design a reality in YOUR community.

Team

All members of your team are actively involved in the creation of the design and presentation. All members of the team can answer questions asked by the audience about their design.