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Design Build: Exploring the Fundamental Requirements of Structural Design [Pdf]
In this instructional activity unit from the Science Teachers' Association of Ontario (STAO), students fold paper to explore the properties and shapes of materials that give structures their stability and strength. They record their...
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Rooted and Growing: Kindergarten Science Unit: Objects and Materials [Pdf]
A collection of science lessons where young scholars explore the characteristics of different materials and everyday objects and create their own objects and art. They study the properties of the materials that make them strong,...
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Fast Company: Improving the Everyday: 8 Useful Objects That Need Fixing
Some designers offer their ideas about everyday objects that they think need to be improved, things like plastic furniture, the shopping cart, the clothesline, and a hammer and nail.
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Oxo: Behind the Design of the New Oxo Pop Containers
This article describes the process by which an engineer at OXO looked at design, size, and variety when he redesigned OXO's line of POP containers.
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Cool Things: Reinvented Products
A collection of articles on products that have been reinvented to improve their designs.
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Business Insider: How a Top Houseware Brand Reinvents Kitchen Gadgets
Founded in 1990, Oxo is beloved by design nerds for the way that the company takes everyday objects (like the salad spinner) and finds sometimes subtle, but always clever, ways to reinvent them. The designs are based on the principle of...