Design a Cell Phone

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Design a Cell Phone

Description:

Students virtually help an animated engineering director design and manufacture a cell phone to help senior citizens get the most out of new technology.

Education Levels:

5, 6, 7, 8

Subject:

Technology, Engineering

Resource Type:

Activity

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Edheads

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Keywords:

Elderly, Marketing, Sales figures, Research skills, Cell phones, Mobile phones, Product design, Senior citizens

Mediator:

Middle school teachers, Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Edheads

Is Part Of:

http://www.edheads.org/activities

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Science

Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Science and Technology

Abilities To Do Technological Design

3. Explain how the solution to one problem may create other problems.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Ways of Knowing

Nature of Science

2. Develop descriptions, explanations and models using evidence to defend/support findings.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Inquiry

Doing Scientific Inquiry

6. Identify faulty reasoning and statements that go beyond the evidence or misinterpret the evidence.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Science and Technology

Abilities To Do Technological Design

4. Design and build a product or create a solution to a problem given two constraints (e.g., limits of cost and time for design and production or supply of materials and environmental effects).

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Science and Technology

Understanding Technology

2. Explain how decisions about the use of products and systems can result in desirable or undesirable consequences (e.g., social and environmental).

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Science and Technology

Understanding Technology

2. Examine how choices regarding the use of technology are influenced by constraints caused by various unavoidable factors (e.g., geographic location, limited resources, social, political and economic considerations).

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Inquiry

Doing Scientific Inquiry

7. Use graphs, tables and charts to study physical phenomena and infer mathematical relationships between variables (e.g., speed and density).

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Inquiry

Doing Scientific Inquiry

3. Formulate and identify questions to guide scientific investigations that connect to science concepts and can be answered through scientific investigations.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Science and Technology

Abilities To Do Technological Design

2. Revise an existing design used to solve a problem based on peer review.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Inquiry

Doing Scientific Inquiry

2. Evaluate observations and measurements made by other people and identify reasons for any discrepancies.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Inquiry

Doing Scientific Inquiry

1. Explain that there are not fixed procedures for guiding scientific investigations; however, the nature of an investigation determines the procedures needed.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Inquiry

Doing Scientific Inquiry

3. Use evidence and observations to explain and communicate the results of investigations.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Science and Technology

Understanding Technology

1. Explain how technology influences the quality of life.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Science and Technology

Abilities To Do Technological Design

5. Design and build a product or create a solution to a problem given one constraint (e.g., limits of cost and time for design and production, supply of materials and environmental effects).

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Ways of Knowing

Nature of Science

1. Summarize how conclusions and ideas change as new knowledge is gained.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Inquiry

Doing Scientific Inquiry

5. Analyze alternative scientific explanations and predictions and recognize that there may be more than one good way to interpret a given set of data.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Science and Technology

Understanding Technology

1. Explain how needs, attitudes and values influence the direction of technological development in various cultures.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Science and Technology

Abilities To Do Technological Design

4. Evaluate the overall effectiveness of a product design or solution.

Conforms To

Academic Content Standards K-12 Science (2002)

Scientific Inquiry

Doing Scientific Inquiry

6. Explain why results of an experiment are sometimes different (e.g., because of unexpected differences in what is being investigated, unrealized differences in the methods used or in the circumstances in which the investigation was carried out, and because of errors in observations).

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