Design and Make Activities support technological problem-solving. Through technological problem solving, students develop the ability to design solutions to problems. Students create models of new devices or new processes to help address human needs and desires, as well as new knowledge about those devices or processes. When engaged in technological problem solving, students should be given opportunities to be creative in their thinking, rather than merely to find a prescribed answer. Critical aspects of technological problem solving are: careful planning; purposeful selection of tools and materials; testing, retesting, and modifications of a product or process; communicating about the solution; and recommending of changes or improvements.

This manual can be loaned out as an additional resource for the Technology Hand Tool Kit from the Science and Technology Loan Centre. Building Materials (Primary, Junior and Intermediate) can be purchased from Loan Centre to support these resources. To review the contents of the Technology Hand Tool Kit and the Building Materials, search the Insignia Catalog by using those titles.

12 resource booklets (chapters) 1. Use It 2. Join It 3. Build It 4. Control It 5. Levers& Linkages 6. Electricity 7. Hydraulics & Pneumatics 8. Simple Machines 9. Vehicles 10. Science at Work 11. Alternative Energy 12. Heritage