MYP Design Cycle

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We use Design Cycle in Design Technology. The design cycle is a tool to help students to create solutions in response to challenges. Technology is creative, used to solve problems, made by people. These are the steps:


Investigate
Plan
Create
Evaluate

Evaluation

What worked well, and what didnt work well?
There are a couple of things that worked well, and a couple of things that we had difficulties with.
Things that worked well:

• When we were using the Mindstorm, there weren't any pieces missing.
• The Tower worked fine, when we first tried it.
• We were able to follow the instructions in the Mindstorm, and we built the robot quite fast.
• We were able to control the robot.
• We have created an Animoto easily, it is a 30 second video about Robots (pictures)
• My wikispace is full of information about robots, like ( Advantages & Disadvantages, what is the lastes technology in robots....etc)
• I have alot of information about robot rules in my wikispace.

Things that didn't work well:

• We weren't able to program the robot, at the first time.
• We had dificulties planning the robot using WinLogo.
• We also had problems using RoboLab.

How can we improve it?

We can improve it by focusing on the design cycle and following instructions. The investigation part went well, but the design part was kind of a disaster, we had some problems in the create part with the tower.