Challenge 1: Bring Home the Bacon
2 2
grade grade
© 2019 Region 4 Education Service Center115
STEMulating Design Challenges in Science, Grades K–2
TEACHER GUIDE
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ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS (EDP)
Challenge 1: Bring Home the Bacon
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 bridges against one or both of the following conditions:
o Does the bridge span the river?
o Does the truck fit on the bridge? 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 bridge and design plan by . . .
The steps we followed were . . .
The materials we used were . . .
First we tried , then we . . .
2 2
grade grade
© 2019 Region 4 Education Service Center115
STEMulating Design Challenges in Science, Grades K–2
TEACHER GUIDE
|
ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS (EDP)
Challenge 1: Bring Home the Bacon
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 bridges against one or both of the following conditions:
o Does the bridge span the river?
o Does the truck fit on the bridge? 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 bridge and design plan by . . .
The steps we followed were . . .
The materials we used were . . .
First we tried , then we . . .
