Egg+Drop+Assignment

// a. Identify the Problem: // 1. Identify the Problem: Create a pod that can save an egg from a 15 foot drop. // b. Develop the Design Brief: // 2. Research, and find designs that would work for your egg drop. I think I have a pretty good idea. 3. How do you know that these resources are trustworthy? Because I can trust my own brain. 4. Explain why not all Internet sources are trustworthy? People can write anything and you can never know if they are lying or not. // c. Formulate a Design Specification // 5. List all the requirements you must meet to create the egg drop:
 * THE DESIGN CYCLE **** EGG DROP DESIGN FOLDER **
 * STEP 1: INVESTIGATE **

= Requirements: = 6. Why is it important to test your egg drop before the final “drop”? So you can see how it falls 7. How does making an egg drop apply to a real world situation? Maybe if you are trying to create a new way for people to survive falling out of an airplane. An inflatable cushion could pop out around you and save you from the landing or something. // a. Design a Product or Solution: // 8. Create three completely different designs using the Brainstorming Chart. [|IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf] // b. Plan a Product or Solution: // 9. Which design do you think will work best? The third one seems the strongest and safest. 10. Why did you choose this design? Because I think it will protect the egg the best. 11. On the back of your brainstorming paper, draw your final draft. 12. Plan how you will get the entire project finished by May 11. (I will help you with this step!) // a. Use Appropriate Techniques and Equipment: // 13. List three safety tips you need to follow to while creating your egg drop: Don't burn yourself, don't cut yourself, don't catch your hair on fire 14. Were you nice, respective, responsible, and did you have a good attitude? Explain: I had fun building the egg drop and I had a good attitude the whole time. // b. Follow the Plan: // 15. Did you follow your plan? I followed the plan but it didn't really look exactly like the design. 16. Did you create steps in your plan that were easy to follow? YES 17. Did you follow my requirements? YES // c. Create the Product/Solution: // 18. What areas of your plan needed troubleshooting? What to do if the egg doesn't fit. // a. Evaluate the Product/Solution: // 19. Was your design successful? NO  20. How could you improve your solution? Make the opening bigger 21. What part of your design would you use again? The whole thing. Just make the opening bigger, then it would work. // b. Evaluate the Use of the Design Cycle: // 25. Grade yourself, using the IB Rubric, for each stage of the Design Cycle. Get the rubric from me. 26. How can the Design Cycle be used in other subject areas? Applying for college and doing pretty much everything you do uses the Design Cycle. 27. How can the Design Cycle be used in real world situations? (List three) College, doing homework, and going on a vacation. 28. Were you nice? YES 29. Were you respectful to everyone in the class and all the equipment in the classroom? YES, even though the glue gun was mean to me. 30. Were you a whiny-baby? No  31. On a scale of 1 - 6, give yourself a grade for your attitude: 6
 * 1) Using the Design Cycle, create an "egg pod" that will save an egg from a 15 foot drop.
 * 2) You will have 60 straws to complete this assignment.
 * 3) You will have a few (5 - 7) glue sticks to complete this project.
 * 4) You will not receive your egg until we are outside the day we drop the eggs.
 * 5) You will not have any glue the day we drop the eggs.
 * 6) Create a new page on your wiki and name it "Egg Drop" - your entire Design Folder should be posted on this page. Copy and paste the Design Folder onto your new page.
 * STEP 2: PLAN **
 * STEP 3: CREATE **
 * STEP 4: EVALUATE **
 * ATTITUDE **