Design for the IB MYP 4&5: By Concept

Lenny Dutton

Sep 2021 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Ensure your students navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Design, presented in global contexts.


- Develop conceptual understanding with key concepts and related concepts, set in global contexts, at the heart of each chapter.
-Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by an experienced educator.
- Extend learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities.
- Apply global contexts in meaningful ways with an internationally-minded perspective.
- Develop practical and creative-thinking skills to solve design problems with a statement of inquiry in each chapter.
- Confidently cover the framework with chapters covering digital, product and combined design.

Table Content:
Unit 1 Global Goals Design Challenge
Unit 2 Design to help people express their emotions
Unit 3 Playground design
Unit 4 Lights change lives
Unit 5 Service promotion
Unit 6 Gamified exercise
Unit 7 Pedestrian safety
Unit 8 The importance of toilets
Unit 9 Human impact animation
Unit 10 Play with the past
Unit 11 Dealing with change
Unit 12 Turning drawings into products

About the author

Lenny Dutton has worked as an MYP Coordinator and Design teacher at International schools around the world. She likes to bring global issues, empathy and play into the classroom and is very interested in the work of Harvard's Project Zero, especially their Visible Thinking, Pedagogy of Play and Agency by Design projects.