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Puzzling out Form: Design Visualization--New Technology Often Presents the Opportunity for the Designer to Imagine New Forms

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Funk, Roger L. – Technology Teacher, 2004

This article addresses how to help students develop an aptitude for seeing relationships between elements and puzzling out new forms in doing so. Four different approaches are presented. Each illustrates a way that industrial designers work in considering the form of a product. A classroom activity is included.

Descriptors: Design, Educational Technology, Class Activities, Visualization

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Brahier, Daniel, Ed. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1993

A thematic approach to curriculum enables students to connect topics and supports meaningful inquiry. Presents 4 activities for levels K-2, 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8 in which students explore problems of interest to them involving the theme of construction and architecture. Includes reproducible worksheets. (MDH)

Descriptors: Architecture, Class Activities, Construction Materials, Cooperative Learning