Have you downloaded and played with Google SketchUp? It's pretty awesome, even for adults. And it's free. If you put it in the hands of your students, they will learn a lot of math, science, geometry, etc. - plus you would be meeting Technology Standard 6: Design of the Ohio Academic Content Standards. Here is the standard:
- Standard 6: Design
Students apply a number of problem-solving strategies demonstrating the nature of design, the role of engineering and the role of assessment. Students recognize the attributes of design; that it is purposeful, based on requirements, systematic, iterative, creative, and provides solution and alternatives. Students explain critical design factors and/or processes in the development, application and utilization of technology as a key process in problem solving. Students describe inventors and their inventions, multiple inventions that solve the same problem, and how design has affected their community. They apply and explain the contribution of thinking and procedural steps to create an appropriate design and the process skills required to build a product or system. They critically evaluate a design to address a problem of personal, societal and environmental interests. Students systematically solve a variety of problems using different design approaches including troubleshooting, research and development, innovation, invention and experimentation.
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