1. Danielle and five friends plan a 3-week hiking trip on the Appalachian Trail in June. Each person is responsible for an area like energy, manufacturing, etc. and must pack supplies within a 40lb limit and $2000 budget.
2. Danielle researches sleeping bags, axes, and scissors for the trip. She considers marmot and hasky bags, a sportsman axe, and westcott scissors.
3. Danielle designs packs in Autodesk and tests a waterproof sleeping bag. Her group will demonstrate their final packs.
1. Danielle and five friends plan a 3-week hiking trip on the Appalachian Trail in June. Each person is responsible for an area like energy, manufacturing, etc. and must pack supplies within a 40lb limit and $2000 budget.
2. Danielle researches sleeping bags, axes, and scissors for the trip. She considers marmot and hasky bags, a sportsman axe, and westcott scissors.
3. Danielle designs packs in Autodesk and tests a waterproof sleeping bag. Her group will demonstrate their final packs.
1. Danielle and five friends plan a 3-week hiking trip on the Appalachian Trail in June. Each person is responsible for an area like energy, manufacturing, etc. and must pack supplies within a 40lb limit and $2000 budget.
2. Danielle researches sleeping bags, axes, and scissors for the trip. She considers marmot and hasky bags, a sportsman axe, and westcott scissors.
3. Danielle designs packs in Autodesk and tests a waterproof sleeping bag. Her group will demonstrate their final packs.
1. Danielle and five friends plan a 3-week hiking trip on the Appalachian Trail in June. Each person is responsible for an area like energy, manufacturing, etc. and must pack supplies within a 40lb limit and $2000 budget.
2. Danielle researches sleeping bags, axes, and scissors for the trip. She considers marmot and hasky bags, a sportsman axe, and westcott scissors.
3. Danielle designs packs in Autodesk and tests a waterproof sleeping bag. Her group will demonstrate their final packs.
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Name: Danielle Munn
Foundations of Technology
Period: 5
Date: 4/13/16 Unit 3 Hiking Group
Appalachian Trail Activity
Scenario
Problem
Procedure Materials
Start of Expert Responsibil ities
You and five of your friends decide to hike part of the Appalachian Trail, the whole trail is a total of 2175-mile trail running from Georgia to Maine. Your team will be dropped off in Pennsylvania and picked up at Harpers Ferry. The team will be starting when school ends for the year in June. Your team will consist of an expert in each of the following subjects on the trip: Energy & Power, Manufacturing, Construction, Information & Communication, Agriculture & Transportation, and Medicine & First Aid. Your team must plan a 3 week hiking trip starting June 20th, dropping off in Pennsylvania and picking up in Harpers Ferry. Each person is responsible for making sure that their Hiking Team is well prepared for this trip by knowing their own subject and packing the resources needed for this trip within their subject. Each person is required to have a plan and a back-up plan for their responsibilities on the trip. Your fearless and supportive leader/teacher will be meeting you ONCE with a ration of supplies that you come up with within the weight limits. Sheriff Sam will be around to protect you from anything that might harm you like bears, crazy raccoons and other travelers. Each of you will carry a pack filled to a maximum weight limit of 40 lbs. Every pack does NOT have to have the same materials in it. Your WHOLE team only has $2000 to spend on the materials for the trip, this includes EVERYTHING needed for the trip (clothes, shoes, food, backpacks) Follow the Engineering Design Process to prepare your pack. Computer w/Internet Access Energy & Power Manufacturing Construction Fire, Charging Pack, Clothes, Water Sleeping arrangements Equipment & Shoes Bottles for all members: Where *Challenge: What can and How (Sleeping you use for 2 different bag, roll?) purposes? Info & Communication Agriculture Medicine & First Aid &Transportation Information for the trip, Food for the trip (How Simple First Aid Kit, Communication on the many calories should Plants/Animals hike (Different paces?), you eat?), What information that could Communication with Plants/Animals will you need medical outside world, Ration encounter? How will attention, Normal Resupply, you react? injuries (Prevention?) Non-Verbal Day
Name: Danielle Munn
Foundations of Technology
1.
Period: 5
Date: 4/13/16 Unit 3 Hiking Group
Define the Problem
What need or want must be met by the solution? Make a plan to go on a 3 week hiking trip to the Appalachian Mountains by May 4, 2016. The supplies must cost no more than $2,000 and weigh less than 40 pounds per person or 240 pounds per group. We have to gather materials to meet medical, agricultural and transportation, construction, manufacturing, communication, information, energy and power needs. Our leader is able to meet us once to resupply us with what we need during our trip.
2.
Brainstorming List possible items that might be used in your final pack. Clearly identify and describe how each of these ideas relates to the problem statement. Organize them within the 6 Expert Categories: Energy & Power, Manufacturing, Construction, Information & Communication, Agriculture & Transportation, and Medicine & First Aid.
Name: Danielle Munn
Foundations of Technology
Period: 5
Date: 4/13/16 Unit 3 Hiking Group
Construction: Sleeping bags- it will help us survive
Manufacturing: Clothing appropriate for the weather- survival
Agriculture & Transportation:
Food that will sustain us for a while- survival
Energy & Power:
Unperishable items- will help for a longer time
Information & Communication:
technology to bring- communication with group, location services walky talkies, phones- communication and internet accessibility
Medicine & First Aid:
Antiseptic things like Neosporin- prevent infection in the case of an emergency Bug spray- protect from diseases and sicknesses Sunblock- help with sunburn and illness
3.
Research and Generating Ideas
In the space below, document your research. I would suggest researching for cost and weight of items as well as information of the trip. If any expert has something specific to research it should be done here as well. Be sure to include proper citations at the end of your notes.
What are the criteria and constraints of the design problem?
Criteria
Constraints
Name: Danielle Munn
Foundations of Technology
5.
Period: 5
We have to survive our 3 week
hiking trip
Each person will bring their groups
stated materials
Sleepingbags that are waterproof
Date: 4/13/16 Unit 3 Hiking Group
Each person can only have 40 lbs
Must spend under $2,000
Team leader will meet you once along the way
Exploring possibilities Reflect on your brainstormed ideas and research notes and describe the plusses and minuses of each design approach you have considered. What decisions will your group have to make? Write down the decisions that you must make to discuss.
Brainstorming Ideas &
Decisions Marmot sleeping bag (blue) Hasky sleeping bag (orange) Sportsman axe Gray Westcott Scissors
Pluses
Minuses
Heavy duty
Heavy weighing, more expensive
Not as good of quality
Very light and cheap
May not be good quality because
it is a small one
Mildly heavy, small
Will be handy if we need it
Might be a waste of space
6. Selecting an Approach a. Enter the constraints and criteria of the project in the first column. b. Score your brainstorming ideas against each constraint or criterion and indicate how well the idea meets the criteria and constraints. 3 pts = easily meets, 2 pts = somewhat meets, 1 pt. = does not meet c. Total the columns and circle the highest score to indicate your best design idea. On a scale of 1 to 5 least to greatest Constraint/Crite Blue Orange Sportsman Gray rion Marmot Hasky axe Westcott sleeping sleeping scissors bag bag 3 Weeks
Weight
Money
Usability
14
18
13
16
Total
Name: Danielle Munn
Foundations of Technology
Period: 5
Date: 4/13/16 Unit 3 Hiking Group
7. Developing a Design Proposal
Based on the evaluation of your ideas, develop a design proposal packing list for the highest scoring idea. Attach your working material list in Microsoft Excel file to your Weebly. Determine the materials you plan to use based on your design.
8. Making a model or prototype
Within the 3D Modeling Software Autodesk Inventor create the items needed for the trip to fit within the pack that you have bought/designed. Attach your parts & finished product from Autodesk Inventor to your Weebly.
9. Testing and Evaluating the Design, using specifications
As you create your solution, you will perform tests to make sure that the solution is meeting the needs of the given problem. If your solution does not work, you may need to repeat the previous steps of the Engineering Design Process, until you find a functional design. In the space below, document the type of tests you conducted and the results. Test Performed Waterproof sleeping bag
Test Results The sleeping bag is waterproof, It showed a test video online
scissors
They can cut up to 15 sheets of paper at once
10.Refining the Design
Based on your tests, what design refinements should be made to the prototype to ensure that it can satisfy all of the criteria and constraints of the design problem. Refinements
Name: Danielle Munn
Foundations of Technology
Period: 5
Date: 4/13/16 Unit 3 Hiking Group
11.Creating or Making It Modify your model/prototype to incorporate the design refinements you identified in section 10. What additional steps would be necessary to produce the final product for the customer?
Name: Danielle Munn
Foundations of Technology
Period: 5
Date: 4/13/16 Unit 3 Hiking Group
Name: Danielle Munn
Foundations of Technology
Period: 5
12.Communicating processes and results
a) Demonstrate your final packing list & packs to the rest of the class.
