October 20, 21, 25, 27

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Next is the DESIGN (Criterion B) stage of the Design Cycle.

• Students are expected to generate several feasible designs that meet the design specification and to evaluate these against the design specification.

• Students are then expected to select one design, justify their choice and evaluate this in detail against the design specification.

To get a 5/6: The student generates a range of feasible designs, each evaluated against the design specification. The student justifies the chosen design and evaluates it fully and critically against the design specification.


IB Learner Profile Focus - Thinker


Learning Objective: generate several feasible designs that meet the design specification; evaluate the designs against the specification; select one design andjustify its choice.

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Excellence  - something to strive for.

Ohio University rocks this half-time. . .

October 7, 11

3.  Formulate a Design Specification      (Create a Design Specification and Tests to Evaluate your product)

"A design specification is a series of statements that describe the possibilities and restrictions of the product."  They are important for determining the quality of the product.  Every item included in your design specification provides a test point.


Some language that might be helpful at this stage of the project is:
My design will need to . . .
The requirements of the people who will use it are . . . 
It will also need to do the following . . . 


We brainstormed possible design specifications for this project.  This is what we came up with.


Design Specification Ideas:
1.  Error Free
2.  Professional (attractive/eye-catching/appropriate)
3.  Relevant/complete
4.  Accurate (for the character)
5.  Materials
6.  Geared toward target audience.

Tests to evaluate your product -


Introduce this with a sentence such as:  


To evaluate my product I will create a questionnaire.  On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 = awful and 5 = awesome) I will ask the following questions.  Then create a questionnaire.  You will create at least 1 question for each design specification.

Learning Objective: produce a listing of detailed specifications, identify ways of testing a solution on a specific audience or the intended user.

October 6

Year 10, Hope you enjoyed our mid-week break!

Let's finish the Design Brief today.

Learning objectives: independently identify meaningful questions, carrry out web search, select and organize appropriate sources and evaluate them.