Escape the Lava

Duration: Four 50-minute sessions

Grade Levels: 4-8

Design a device to rescue researchers from a lava flow.
Resources

Lesson Plan PDF

 

Grade Levels: 4-8

Duration: Four 50-minute sessions

Objectives:

  • Design and build devices to solve an engineering design challenge.
  • Assess their designs for failure points and areas for iterative improvements.
  • Analyze presentations to identify key components of good presentations.
  • Create presentations to explain the strengths and weaknesses of their designs in meeting criteria and constraints of a design challenge.
  • Demonstrate their abilities to integrate the lexicon of engineering in their presentations.
  • Create engineering diagrams.

The Tech Challenge

This resource was developed to prepare students for the 2018 Tech Challenge. Each year The Tech Challenge invites teams of students in Grades 4-12 to use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem.

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This activity was developed in partnership with educators from The Tech Academies Fellowship program. Tech Academy Fellows learn to be leaders of STEM education while designing and testing resources to be shared with other educators.