1. Designing our smart city pt. 2
Code Smart
Computing I Ages 11-14
Designing our smart city pt. 2
Lesson 8

2. How can we use prototyping to develop new ideas rapidly?
Designing our smart city pt. 2
Lesson 8
How can we use prototyping to develop new ideas rapidly?
Main Enquiry
Learning Outcomes
Understand what prototyping is and why it is used 01
Describe a number of prototyping methods 02
Evaluate and refine own ideas and ideas of others 03
Share learning with class 05
Combine hardware, software and crafting skills to make a prototype 04

3. Challenge: use prototyping to help with your smart city idea
Designing our smart city pt. 2
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Introduction to prototyping
Challenge: use prototyping to help with your smart city idea
Prototyping

4. How can prototyping help with our projects?
Designing our smart city pt. 2
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How do
you know where you are?
How can prototyping help with our projects?
What kind of project would each of these be especially useful for?
What kind of prototyping can we use in our classroom?
What kind of prototyping would be used in industry?

5. Think carefully about how each user…
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Think carefully about how each user…
Thinks and feels
What they might say and do
What they could hear and see
What their pains and gains are

6. How can we make people’s lives better using our robot vehicles?
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How do
you know where you are?
How can we make people’s lives better using our robot vehicles?
Don’t interrupt
Wild ideas are encouraged
Keep your end users in mind
Stay focused
Let everyone have a say
Work together and build on other people’s ideas
Quantity over quality
Make notes so you don’t forget great ideas

7. Does it help your target users? Does it help your target users?
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Evaluate and refine ideas using an ideas funnel
Does it help your target users?
Can you prototype it?
Does it help your target users?

8. 3. Make props and set the scene to show off your prototype in context
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Make a prototype
1. Focus on how things should ‘work’. Make your robot do what you want it to do.
2. Show how things should ‘look’. Make your robot look the way you want or create sketches and models.
3. Make props and set the scene to show off your prototype in context

9. Reflect on your work What went well? What didn’t go so well?
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Reflect on your work
What went well?
What didn’t go so well?
What did you learn?