Toy Design Journal

Please continue to work on your Design Journals in your Toy Design teams. The focus for today's lessons would be on the following:

• Guiding Questions: What are some other questions that you might have to guide you in your designs?
• Further Research (if need to)
• Detailed Development:
• Material considerations (cardboard, acrylic, compressed foam, balsa wood, pine wood, etc)
• Inclusion of Mechanisms or/and Electronics (where relevant and needed)
• How to construct?
• Version 2 of the toy design model: Please work on your detailed SketchUp models NOW. Work on creating components and parts, and use the 'Make Component' options in the software to create the various interconecting components. Use the format usually used in an 'Exploded View' format to indicate how the various parts come together!

Please submit the Version 2 of your model to me via my gmail address, which I think all of you would have already known. Rename your files as: 209_ToyDesign_TeamX

Initial submission of toy design journal..changes

Due to the events happening during week 10 of Term 1, we would need to push the initial submission date of the Design Journal to the early part of the week, specifically on Monday, 7th of March 2011

Submission of toy design journal

The teams would need to submit your toy design journals in Term 1, Week 10 on the 11th March 2011. Things to include in the journal should include the following basic content items:

• Initial Research on Toys
• Concept Map on toys (brainstorming)
• Essential Questions
• Selected Idea and justification
• Guiding Questions: What are some other questions that you might have to guide you in your designs?
• Further Research
• Detailed Development:
• Material considerations
• Inclusion of Mechanisms or/and Electronics
• How to construct?
• Version 1 of the toy design model/s