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Engineering in Social Studies
Engineering - exploring the designed world - the application of math, science and the engineering design process to innovative problem solutions

Engineering Design Process (EDP)


 * Ask - identify the problem
 * Imagine - brainstorm, explore similar solutions, possible improvements, materials, methods, new ideas
 * Plan - design, work out what it takes to build, any special tools, prototype, scale model, mathematical model, CAD
 * Create - build it, try it out - testing, use it
 * Improve - make it better, additional features

Florida history


 * settlers - tools, housing, water transportation, railroad, shipping - MOAS
 * agriculture - citrus plantations, farming, cattle, irrigation, sugar mill
 * Indians - housing, tools, crafts
 * hurricanes - damage to man-made structures, damage avoidance / prevention
 * theme parks - rides, attractions
 * Thomas Edison - phonograph, motion picture camera, 1,000 other inventions
 * NASA
 * St. Augustine and Cape Canaveral Lighthouse, Ponce Inlet lighthouse - construction, lenses, light source
 * forts, Castillo de San Marcos - construction, fortifications, guns, canons
 * Army Corps of Engineers - St. Johns River, Inter Coastal Waterway, bridges

== Housing==

A practical Florida house in xxxx

For this Engineering design challenge, you are a new Florida settler in what will become Volusia County. The year is ????. You have brought a few family treasures from your home in ??. You worked as a a ?? so you know how to do most of the work to build your new house.

Work through the steps of the Engineering design process to help you figure out what is the best house design and how to build it. Remember, the hurricane season is almost over but the cold winter nights will be here soon, so you will have to work quickly.

ASK - identify the problem
 * build a house using materials that can be gathered locally
 * special needs unique to Florida
 * hot in summer
 * rain, hurricanes are common
 * cold in winter - often near freezing for ?? days each year
 * lots of trees - type
 * other material available
 * items that can be made
 * items that have to be shipped from ?? Sears & Roebuck

IMAGINE - brainstorm, explore similar solutions, possible improvements, materials, methods, new ideas
 * houses where they came from
 * make the house cooler in summer
 * prepare for heavy rain and hurricanes
 * make whatever is necessary, practical, possible
 * make do without items that can't be make

PLAN - design, work out what it takes to build, any special tools, prototype, scale model, mathematical model, CAD
 * try out some ideas
 * build scale model
 * build "sub-systems"

CREATE - build it, try it out - testing, use it
 * build the final design

IMPROVE - make it better, additional features
 * what would you do differently next time?
 * what would you need to make improvements? Materials? Skills? Tools? Time? Money?

Learn more...
 * Florida houses - breezeway - Gamble, Blue Spring
 * building materials
 * period construction methods
 * furniture
 * interior / exterior design styles