DESIGN Thinking STEM

               DESIGN Thinking STEM

What do you notice?

What is it like?

 Have you seen something like this before?

How does it work?

What questions do you have?

How might you investigate?

Link to Wind Tree - Electricity

Using STEM Design Thinking

WHY

What is it for?

What does it need to do?

What designs already exist?

What information do I need?

HOW

What materials do I need?

What size will it be?

What tools do I have?

What do I need to know?

How will I get more information? 

WHERE

What features does it need?

How will we use it? 

What does the user need to know? 

How will it be different? 

How will it be better?

WHEN

How long will it take to make?

How efficient is it?

How long will it last?

How can we change it? 

WHAT NEXT

Can we share it?

Can It help people?

Can we sell it? 

Is it sustainable?

This is innovation : What possibilities do you see?

Who might be interested in this invention?

What Happens when an artist thinks like a scientist?

What Happens when an artist thinks like a scientist?

Here is a great example of artists and scientists working together - trans-disciplinary thinking and learning - innovation in action.

It is called the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project.

"Sometimes it takes an artist to show scientists what they’ve been missing."

Koen Vanmechelen is that artist. For the last 20 years he’s bred his own chickens as part of the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP). That might seem strange to you and me, but not to Koen. He mixes DNA the way other artists mix colors, and uses his chickens to demonstrate cultural and genetic diversity. Besides, chickens are one of the most common animals on the planet. There are 65 million of them. They produce 60 million tons of eggs that we use for everything from food to medicine production. That makes chickens “the most important animal in the world,” to Koen, as he told me over Skype. They never fail to surprise him: “Chickens are like a mirror for human culture,” he said. " from the following link

http://bigthink.com/…/what-happens-when-an-artist-thinks-li…

What do you notice?
Look closer - what patterns do you see? What connections can you make?
Use all of your senses?
What do you wonder? What does it make you think? What questions do you have?
How can you explore? What will you collect?
What is best idea to find out? How will you document what you find?
How will you share?
Who might be interested in what you found out?