Introduction
People live and do most of their activities in different environments. They wear different kinds of clothing based on those environments as well. People who live in hot tropical country wear different kinds of clothing compared to those who live in rainy cool country.
What if you could design clothes that could help those people that live in such environment. For example: a hat may have a cooling system to help people keep cool, or a watch could be a communication device.
Task
Students have to imagine, then designed
Process
Do the research on line, can be through google, youtube, or these websites:http://www.historyandheadlines.com/10-great-clothing-inventions/ and http://yuliziv.com/2009/10/11/fashion-meets-tech-10-inventions-to-change-the-fashion-industry-and-our-clothes/ to look for ideas.
This website http://www.refinery29.com/fashion-inventions is also good in giving you some ideas on what kind of invention can you put in clothes.
Evaluation
Every meeting each pair must report their progress until the 6th meeting of the unit. On the 7th meeting each pair must do their presentation.
Rubric:
| Criteria | 1 ( 35 points ) | 2 ( 65 points ) | 3 ( 100 pints ) |
| Presentation | Presentation is not clear and not organized. | Presentation is not Clear and Oraganized. | Presentation is very clear and well orgaized. |
| Content | Lack of Information on the idea. | Information on the idea is somewhat complete. | Information on the idea is complete. |
| Research | Research is incomplete. | Research is somewhat complete. | Research is complete. |
Conclusion
By doing this web quest students are :
- Challenged to think of ways to find a solution to certain condition.
- Have become more creative in finding new solutions to certain problems or situations.