The first activities in the lesson plan I have developed are based on the process of reverse engineering. The students select a familiar product or toy and take it apart step by step documenting the process all the way. I was amazed at the excitement this project generated in the classroom with just a few tools, a rule, and the engineering notebook. (We did determine Hot Wheels Cars are a bad choice.) I have this set as a team project for putting the product back together but decided to have each students take the items apart. We had a lot of toys and some items like a calculator, a mouse and the standard writing pen. As a student of mine said years ago when his team selected an engineering problem they thought was simple, “Nothing is ever easy!” I will be using this as a beginning project for my third level students so they can continue with the other activities for the capstone project.