Paper Engineering

Duration: 60 minutes

Grade Levels: 3-8

Students practice defining a problem and developing their own criteria as they recreate an object from paper and test it in this simple design challenge.
Resources

Lesson Plan PDF

Mini Design Challenge - English

Mini Design Challenge - Spanish

Grade Levels: 3-8

Duration: 60 minutes

Concepts/Skills: Prototyping, engineering design, testing

Objectives: 

  • Create a paper prototype of a common object.
  • Develop design criteria to test their prototype.

The Tech Challenge

This resource was developed to prepare students for the 2021 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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