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Irrigation Situation
Use the design process to create a hillside garden irrigation system that maximizes water efficiency.
Grades: 3-5
Duration: 90 minutes
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Like most of our resources, this lesson is aligned with the engineering strand of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). |
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Systems Design Challenges: Developing Innovative Solutions
Duration: 5 minutes
Grade Levels: K-12
Students use the innovation design process to imagine, create, and test solutions to complex systems design problems.
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Systems Design Challenges: Sharing Solutions
Duration: 6 minutes
Grade Levels: K-12
See how systems design challenges build learners' confidence that they can communicate creative solutions to complex problems.
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Systems Design Challenges: Overview
Duration: 6 minutes
Grade Levels: K-12
Learn how systems design challenges build learners’ problem-solving capacity, empowering them to create change for global good.
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Tech Tip: Brainstorming
Grade Levels: K-12
Methods for inspiring innovation at the start of a challenge.
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Tech Tip: Computational Thinking
Grade Levels: K-12
Learn the four elements of computational thinking to solve problems big and small.
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Tech Tip: Computer Programming
Grade Levels: K-12
Practice and share the building blocks of computer programming -- no experience required!
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Tech Tip: Design Challenge Assessment
Grade Levels: K-12
Discover how to effectively evaluate skills like boldness, perseverance, and collaboration.
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Tech Tip: Innovator Mindsets
Grades: K-12
Tools for fostering collaboration, perseverance, curiosity, empathy, and boldness with engineering design.
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Tech Tip: Framing the Challenge
Grade Levels: K-12
Essential elements to engage all learners in design challenges, including narratives, criteria, and constraints.
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