Using human-centered design, students were tasked with creating a solution for people who were stuck in the dark when a power outage hits their community. South Africa has a current energy crisis which means a common phenomenon in all households is load-shedding. Mostly these are scheduled periods lasting a couple of hours, but sometimes due to circumstances, power can be cut without anyone expecting it. The purpose of this project was to create a piece of wearable technology that an individual could wear, that if they were stuck in the dark they could switch on their own light supply that was attached to their body- whether in the form of an armband, necklace, belt or headband.

Check out the project: UbD Grade 1 Lesson plan and  Design Journal for Grade 1 project

DESIGN THINKING PROCESS

Taken from: https://dschool.stanford.edu

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Posing with headbands, necklaces and belts with LEDs to light us up when we are left in the dark
I have created electricity – the battery gives the LED power to light up through the conductive tape.
Figuring out the flow of electrons as students become the different parts of a circuit