Grant Douglas has cerebral palsy and needs assistance to eat. While he was sitting at home being fed cornflakes by his mum, the phone rang. She answered it and as she talked, Grant could see his cornflakes getting soggier and soggier. Grant wanted to be able to feed himself so he contacted a design company and they came up with a unique spoon that worked for him. Students will watch a video to see the design process this spoon went through. Then they look for three pieces of simple but effective design that only have one part to them, such as a shoehorn or a cup. They are then asked to adapt one object to make it easier to use. [4:16]

Concepts

product design

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Additional Tags

engineering design process, engineering design project, the design museum, engineering design process projects

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional