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Phenomenon-based learning challenge

Design a coronavirus quarantine house.

You might like to submit your design in a global challenge, or share with an engineer or with South Australia's entrepreneurs through Future Industries Exchange for Entrepreneurship (FIXE).

Structure and features

Your challenge is to design a coronavirus quarantine house.

Engineering challenge: 

  1. Research the current situation to the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic. 
  2. Identify the need to design a COVID-19 quarantine house and put your ideas for a potential solution in writing. 
  3. Draw your design (either free hand or using drawing software available on your computers) and/or build a simple model with items found in your home and take a picture of it to share. 
  4. Share your engineering design widely (other students, family members, local engineers, entrepreneurs or globally, etc). 

Example online design resources: 

The attachment is an example of an innovation design currently in progress in the United States by the New York Building Systems Consultant, Inc.

 

Links and files

Design a coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine house

Teacher notes

Phenomenon-based learning (PHBL) is an educational movement initiated by Finland’s educational system in 2016 striving to expand typical project-based learning (PBL) and problem-based learning (PrBL) approaches into learning experiences that immerse students deeper into contextual situations aligned with real-life issues, while also applying knowledge and skills from multiple disciplines.

Australian Curriculum: Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics.

Students are encouraged to share their innovative solutions widely. 

Engage your students in a timely project addressing the world-wide concerns surrounding COVID-19 by empowering them to think about solutions to local and world-wide issues they have become aware of from media updates and discussions occurring in their homes. 

Students might like to submit their design:

  • globally to University of Texas
  • locally to an engineer by Skype at Engineers Australia. Contact toll free 1300 653 113.
  • in South Australia to an entrepreneur at Future Industries Exchange for Entrepreneurship (FIXE). Contact Office of the Chief Entrepreneur at osace [at] sa.gov.au.