A Better Locker

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Design Thinking and Identifying a Problem Have you ever looked around your bedroom and imagined ways to make the space more functional or stylish Or maybe you have a great idea for solving an organizational problem in your classroom that your teacher has been having If so you might be an inventor Inventors are people with ideas and a plan for making those ideas a reality One way to transform a great idea into an invention that solves real problems is to apply a process called design thinking Design thinking is a series of steps that inventors take to identify a problem learn about it and create and test solutions until they get it right In this book we will apply the design thinking process to build a better locker Why spend time on designing a better locker Because school lockers are an important part of your learning environment the one space in school that you can call your own Since lockers in your school are all the same and students are all different odds are that the lockers in your school could be doing more to make your and your classmates days run smoothly How you ask Well that is up to you Every student has different needs preferences and abilities Perhaps your locker is too small for 4 CHAPTER ONE