Don't Drop The Ball

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Don't Drop The Ball

Luis Carbajal

DON'T DROP THE BALL

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Prompt

In this exercise, students will work together to create a variety of obstacle courses to challenge their creative problem-solving and building skills to ensure the safety of a payload (donut hole).

In this activity, you will create an obstacle course that must transport your donut hole from point A to point B.

Mechanisms:

Instructions

  1. Divide into teams of 4 students
  2. Randomly "pick out of the hat" TWO simple machines to incorporate into your obstacle course. 
  3. Brainstorm and sketch ideas together to solidify your idea.
  4. As a team, begin developing an obstacle course using low-fidelity prototyping materials provided by your teacher (e.g., paper, cardboard, tape, zip-ties, etc.).

Your obstacle course should include the following:

    • Destination point A and point B, marked clearly on the course
    • The two simple machine mechanics that you randomly selected.
    • Player(s) that will go through the obstacle course (ex donut, or alternative like ping-pong ball, etc.)

Deliverables

  • An obstacle course that meets the needs above.
  • A brief slide deck added to the Response tab in this assignment (one per group) that should include:
      1. A descriptive Post Title with the name of your obstacle course and the names of your group members
      2. The two simple machines you incorporated
      3. Photos of your obstacle course
      4. A brief video/gif demonstrating the course & mechanics. (https://ezgif.com/)

Once everyone is finished, we will take turns playing each others' obstacle courses. When playing, you will document feedback for each group. two pluses (Things they did well) and one question (Something they could improve on).