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Designing a Wheelchair for Rugby

Resource for Grades 6-12

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Running Time: 6m 00s
Size: 22.3 MB

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Source: DESIGN SQUAD: "Crash-Test Rugby"

This asset is adapted from DESIGN SQUAD: "Crash-Test Rugby."

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Supplemental Media Available:

Convenient Carrier Activity: Leader Notes and Student Sheet (Document)

Convenient Carrier Activity: Leader Notes and Student Sheet (Spanish) (Document)

A Teacher's Perspective (Document)

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Teaching Tips

Here are suggested ways to engage students with this video and with activities related to adaptive technology.

After showing students this video, challenge them to design and build a way for people using crutches or a wheelchair to carry all their stuff. Download the Convenient Carrier Activity: Leader Notes and Student Sheet Also available in Spanish: Convenient Carrier Activity: Leader Notes and Student Sheet (Spanish)
After discussing this video with students, show and discuss other videos from this Adaptive Technologies collection.
Read A Teacher's Perspective and discuss how one educator used the Convenient Carrier activity to give his students a meaningful connection to the adaptive technologies used by people with disabilities.
Show the full 29-minute episode, DESIGN SQUAD: "Crash Test Rugby", to see both teams work through the engineering design process from start to finish to create their final builds.