Project Revive: Revitalizing Communities Using Existing Models
Overview
Big Idea
Creative design solutions are often necessary for community based problems that impact enormous numbers of people, in some instances nations or even the world.
Purpose of the Unit
This unit explores real-world problems have both historically and currently been addressed through careful problem solving and engineering design technology from solutions generated from a problem solving process. Often using reversed engineering principles help prevent innovators from repeating design solutions that ultimately have not been effective. By examining existing exemplars, students design products to generate solutions to both nature made and human-made environmental problems and disasters that impact societies over months and years. Ultimately, students will become more socially-responsible technologically literate consumers and producers
Topics Covered:
-Community Related Environmental Problems and Technology -What is Next? Investigating Alternatives/Solutions