Sustainable Fashion Design Challege

• Use the engineering design cycle to create a need product based on a client’s needs.
• Analyze a product to determine the need it was designed to meet and the customers it was meant to attract.  
• Understand the life cycle of products and how to prevent waste.
• Incorporate sustainability and upcycling products.  
• Use entrepreneurial skills to invent and promote and new product.

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ADST Curricular Competencies  

Understanding Context: Students will gather information from their peers and from their previous knowledge of toys and from an introduction to toy inventors.

Defining: Students will be able to identify the main objective for the design of their invention and any constraints by discussing with teachers and peers.  

Ideating: Students can work by themselves or in groups in order to generate potential ideas and add to others’ ideas.  

Prototyping: Students will be given the opportunity to build a prototype from their potential ideas.

Testing: Students will be able to test and present their prototype and gather feedback from teachers and peers.  

Making: After multiple rounds of testing and alterations, students will be able to construct the final product incorporating all of the planned changes.

Sharing: Students can use a variety of different methods and platforms to share their toy invention. You can also allow time for students to play with each other's inventions in groups.  

Applied Skills

• During the multistep process the students will have ample opportunity to learn how to use their materials, tools, and technologies in a safe manner.  
• Students will also be able to develop their design and presentation skills.

Environmental Learning

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