Bridging the Gap

Duration: Five 50-minute sessions

Grade Levels: 4-8

Build a bridge over a variety of terrains to determine how different designs affect stability and strength.
Resources

Lesson Plan PDF

 

Grade Levels: 4-8

Duration: Five 50-minute sessions

Objectives: 

  • Generate and explain a design to address a design problem.
  • Compare solutions based on the criteria and constraints of a design problem.
  • Make a recommendation for a proposed solution based on evidence collected from multiple design solutions.
  • Generate a data collection tool in order to collect and evaluate data in a systematic way.
  • Evaluate competing design solutions using the criteria and constraints of a given design problem.

The Tech Challenge

This resource was developed to prepare students for the 2017 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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The Tech Academies

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.