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7 • Promote team work while giving all children time to reflect on what they are learning • Encourage students to look beyond today. Where do we want to be in 5 years from now and what we want to have? • Promote a culture that support independent thinkers • Encourage students to be innovating and creating at all the times Making Connections with Other Topics Connect with the topic “I am Unique” How can my unique ideas help to innovate something new? Express my unique style and creativeness through the design process of an item. Connect with the topic “All Dressed-up” How does technology affect the fashion industry? • Nowadays machines do what the people used to do • Technology enables more to be done in less time • Computers are used to generate designs • Advertise to the world the clothing companies Connect with the topic “I am a Scientist” The relationship between technology and science is circular and significant. • Science relies on the knowledge of certain techniques, methods, systems and tools in order to gain knowledge, and then apply it to practical solutions of problems. • Technological tools that are used from scientists. • Scientists have an easiest access to information in the modern world Connect with the topic “The Store” How the market evolved with the help of technology? How the different products in the store are designed? Why the design of a store is important? What about the online stores? Connect with “Light and Shadows” design on lighting The history of light, artificial light and the effect of