Beyond Chalk Collective

Multidisciplinary student teams (Design, Psychology, Anthropology, Engineering, Marketing, Sociology) will develop a user-centered system for navigating our campus. Over five structured phases—Research, Concept, Design, Development, and Launch—teams will use qualitative and quantitative research methods to guide iterative design decisions, creating various types of sketches, CAD designs with FEA analysis being utilized, and physical prototypes, ensuring the final product is truly centered on use

Project Goal: To redesign an existing fashion accessory to significantly extend its useful lifespan, minimize its environmental and social impact, maximize user safety, and enhance its desirability and usability through inclusive design principles and emotional appeal. IB DP Design Technology Syllabus Content: C 1.1 - Responsiblity of the User, C 1.2 - Inclusive Design, C 1.3 (HL) - Beyond Usability

Students will explore material classifications (by properties and origin), investigate smart and biodegradable materials, and evaluate how these influence design decisions in real-world products. IB DP Design Technology Syllabus Content: A 3.1 - Material Classification and Properties

This is a 3-4 week project on force and energy that meets three NGSS standards for grades 6-8. This project based learning unit covers everything from velocity to mechanical energy, including Newton's Laws and the Law of Conservation of Energy, in a fun and engaging way. Students love building a machine out of recyclables and then being challenged to present a working product to an audience.  Included: - Project outline for teachers - Student edition in both hardcopy and digital (Google Slides)

Students will examine old/current TV remote controls, measure their own hand or that of a classmate's, and then design an ergonomically ideal remote. Finally, there are twelve discussion questions at the end in order to assess their design. IB DP Design Technology Syllabus Content - A 1.1 Ergonomics

Google Slides presentation and doodle notes on Introduction to Kinematics. Includes definitions and examples for motion, speed, velocity, distance, displacement, scalar, and vector. Students also learn how to solve for these variables with guided practice problems.

Doodle notes and Google Slides presentation on types of forces and free-body diagrams. Includes normal force, applied force, resistive force, tension force, and gravitational force. The value of g in a vacuum on Earth is explained and how to calculate using Newton's second law. Finally, students learn how to read and draw basic free-body diagrams.

Doodle notes and Google Slides presentation on the history of light. Includes the contributions of multiple people throughout history.

This is a 2.5 - 3 week project on waves that meets two of the three NGSS standards for grades 6-8. Students will create a musical instrument from recycled goods and a coordinating light show while learning the concepts of waves in the process. Included: - Research template on musical instruments - Wave lab on transverse and longitudinal waves - Cornell notes on types of waves, properties of waves, lightwave behaviors, and sound waves - Corresponding presentations and optional videos for Cornel

Includes doodle notes and Google Slides presentations on Introduction to Kinematics, Acceleration, and Displacement-Time (Position-Time) Graphs.

Google Slides presentation and doodle notes on light waves. Includes the electromagnetic spectrum, light behaving as both a wave and a particle, reflection, and refraction.

Google Slides presentation and doodle notes on Introduction to Electricity. Includes movement of electrons, voltage, current, resistance, electrical charge, conductors, insulators, alternating current, and direct current.

Google Slides presentation and doodle notes on acceleration. Includes definition, formula, guided practice problems, terminal velocity, and acceleration due to gravity.

Doodle notes and Google Slides presentations on electricity. - Introduction to Electricity - Electric Circuits - Electric Power - Series and Parallel Circuits - Resistors - Batteries

Doodle notes to accompany Google Slides presentation on force, friction, and net forces. Includes definition of force, four types of friction, balanced and unbalanced forces, and how to calculate net force.

Doodle notes and Google Slides presentations on light. History of Light Color, 3D, and Eclipses Lenses Mirrors Light Waves

Doodle notes and Google Slides presentations on Thermodynamic topics: Temperature Properties of Matter Hypothermia Thermal Energy and Heat Calculating Heat Energy

Doodle notes to accompany Google Slides presentation on Introduction to Electricity. Includes movement of electrons, voltage, current, resistance, electrical charge, conductors, insulators, alternating current, and direct current.

Doodle notes and Google Slides presentation on Thermal Energy and Heat. Includes definitions on thermal expansion and heat, types of heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation), how thermometers work, conductors, and insulators.

Google Slides presentation and doodle notes on Properties of Matter. Includes physical and chemical changes, phases of matter (solid, liquid, gas, plasma) and molecular movement for each, and phase changes of matter.