Facebox Creations: Mask Design Challenge

Students will:

• Use elements of design effectively.

• Communicate ideas visually.

• Become familiar with the Makedo tools and connectors by cutting, folding and connecting upcycled cardboard.

• Work with upcycled cardboard as a material for making and building. 

Students can:

• Cut, fold and connect using the Makedo tools and connectors with upcycled cardboard to create a mask.

• Manipulate cardboard to create desired effects, including angles and attachments.

• Respond to the prompt and challenges that arise throughout the activity using critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills.

Cut, fold, connect, create, build, upcycle, mask

The Stanford Design Thinking Process helps solve complex problems with creative solutions.

We've broken down the process to support you when engaging with your Makedo Design Challenge here.

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Creativity and innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processesb. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression

US- Common Core Math Standards for Measurement

• Kindergarten: Describe and compare measurable attributes

• Grade 2: Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.

• Grade 4: Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements.

• Grade 5: Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.

US- Common Core Math Standards for Geometry 

• Kindergarten: Identify and describe shapes

• Grade 1,2,3: Reason with shapes and their attributes

• Grade 4: Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles

• Grade 7: Draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them. 

Key Stage 1 (Years 1-3 ):

When designing and making, pupils should be taught to:

Design 

• design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria

Make  

• select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing]  select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics

Technical Knowledge

• build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable

Key Stage 2 (Years 3-6):

When designing and making, pupils should be taught to:

Design  

• use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups  

• generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design

Make 

• select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately

Evaluate

• evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work

Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9):

When designing and making, pupils should be taught to:

Design  

• use research and exploration, such as the study of different cultures, to identify and understand user needs

Evaluate

• test, evaluate and refine their ideas and products against a specification, taking into account the views of intended users and other interested groups

• understand developments in design and technology, its impact on individuals, society and the environment, and the responsibilities of designers, engineers

Key Stage 1 (Years 1-2):

• Measurement:

  • Compare and describe lengths, heights, mass/weight, capacity/volume using non-standard and then standard units (cm, m)

  • Measure and record length, height, etc. using rulers

Key Stage 2 (Years 3-6):

• Geometry:

  • Order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences

  • Understand perimeter as the distance around a 2-D shape and calculate it.  

  • Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations

Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9):

• Shape:

  • Draw and measure angles

  • Understand and use properties of angles in shapes

  • Calculating perimeters and areas of more complex shapes (including triangles and parallelograms)

• Measurement:

  • Use standard units of measure and convert between them

  • Round measurements to an appropriate degree of accuracy