Challenge 4: Help a Bird Out!
© 2019 Region 4 Education Service Center103
1
grade grade
STEMulating Design Challenges in Science, Grades K–2
TEACHER GUIDE
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ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS (EDP)
Challenge 4: Help a Bird Out!
CREATE/TEST/IMPROVE
• Allow teams to work together to create, test, redesign, and retest their prototypes. You may choose to allow teams to test their nests against one or both of the following conditions:
o Is the nest big enough to hold the eggs?
o Does the nest fit on the "tree"? To be fair, inform all teams of what can and cannot be tested during this phase.
• Remind students to record what happens each time they test and redesign, noting their successes and failures along the way.
• Manage materials and ensure students follow safety guidelines.
• Remember not to take over the design process.
• Observe teams to assess and provide feedback on their collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, communication skills, and application of content knowledge.
• Encourage students to plan their presentations and how they will showcase their prototypes using the following sentence stems.
We will showcase our nest and design plan by . . .
The steps we followed were . . .
The materials we used were . . .
First we tried , then we . . .
© 2019 Region 4 Education Service Center103
1
grade grade
STEMulating Design Challenges in Science, Grades K–2
TEACHER GUIDE
|
ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS (EDP)
Challenge 4: Help a Bird Out!
CREATE/TEST/IMPROVE
• Allow teams to work together to create, test, redesign, and retest their prototypes. You may choose to allow teams to test their nests against one or both of the following conditions:
o Is the nest big enough to hold the eggs?
o Does the nest fit on the "tree"? To be fair, inform all teams of what can and cannot be tested during this phase.
• Remind students to record what happens each time they test and redesign, noting their successes and failures along the way.
• Manage materials and ensure students follow safety guidelines.
• Remember not to take over the design process.
• Observe teams to assess and provide feedback on their collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, communication skills, and application of content knowledge.
• Encourage students to plan their presentations and how they will showcase their prototypes using the following sentence stems.
We will showcase our nest and design plan by . . .
The steps we followed were . . .
The materials we used were . . .
First we tried , then we . . .
