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Posted January 9th, 2009 by admin

Motion and Design

Author: Carol Swink
Level: Elementary School
Content Area: Science, Technology, Engineering

Lesson 16: Planning Our Final Design Challenge

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Activities: 
  1. Each team selects one of the design challenge cards.
  2. SCIENCE NOTEBOOKS: Students write all of their ideas for a resolution to the design problem (brainstorm).
  3. With the group, each student will share his/her ideas with the group. (students meet at the board)
  4. One student will write the solutions on the board.
  5. Students browse through and read all of the various solutions to the design challenges to get ideas for their challenge.
  6. Students return to their science groups to determine one idea to implement for the design challenge.
  7. Students record their plan on handout 14-A: Planning Our Final Design Challenge.
  8. SCIENCE NOTEBOOK: Students glue handout 14-A into their science notebooks.
  9. Each group presents their final design challenge idea to the class for questions and feedback.