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Bridging the Gap
Grade Levels: 3-8 | Duration: Five 50-minute sessions
Build a bridge over a variety of terrains to determine how different designs affect stability and strength.
Build a bridge over a variety of terrains to determine how different designs affect stability and strength.
Grade Levels: 3-8
Duration: Five 50-minute sessions
Objectives: Students will:
- Generate and explain a design to a design problem
- Compare solutions based on the criteria and constraints of a design problem
- Make a recommendation for a proposed solution based on evidence collected from multiple design solutions
- Generate a data collection tool in order to collect and evaluate data in a systematic way
- Evaluate competing design solutions using the criteria and constraints of a given design problem