Digital Cities Connect. Global Scholars. Institut Rafael Casanova.

Let’s watch this video from PBS Design Squad Global: “Kid Engineer: Home Helpers”

What inspired these kids to invent their products?

1. The Able Table:
2. The Bubbles Be Gone:
3. The Stair Stepper:

How did they inventions change throughout the course of the video?

Resources so that you can do page 44 of your workbook:

• “Look What I Made,” from MakerSpace. In this website makers around the world post their inventions on this site.
• Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show. Sylvia is a maker-kid who loves tinkering. Watch episodes of her webshow to learn more about the process of making and inventing.

In Unit 3 you will have to identify  a product that is made in your city or country and research online to find out how the product is made today, and what technology was used to make it in the past.

You can explore your neighbourhood and ask around in shops, businesses…

Here you have some resources that can also serve you:

• Viver d’Empreses de Sant Boi
• Sant Boi Centre de Serveis
• Sant Boi Comerç  list 1
• Sant Boi Comerç list 2
• El carrer alphabetical list of shops

Think carefully on how to address the shop keepers, business people, entrepreneurs…

This short video highlights how people and machines work together to build cars.

What are some benefits of using robots in factories? Challenges?

Now, let’s watch it again and answer these questions:

1. When did Henry Ford introduce the first power-driven assembly line for his Model T Fords?
2. Without the assembly line, how many hours did the cars take to make?
3. And with the assembly line, how many hours did the cars take to make?
4. What is today’s new kind of assembly line?
5. What are the nicknames for two of the robots at the Ohio factory?
6. How many robots work at the Ohio factory?

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1. How are pencils made?
2. How does technology make this process easier?

Assignment 2:  watch this video at home. Be ready to comment in class next session. This video shows how workers and machines work together to build a plane in a little more than a week.

1. How do you think this process would be different without technology?
2. Do you think it’s necessary for humans to be a part of making this plane? Why or why not?