Designing Solutions

Practice Slides (Google Slides) (PDF)

Student Worksheet (Google Doc) (PDF)

Student Worksheet - Early Years / Lower Elementary Version (Google Doc) (PDF)

Use materials to design a device that solves a specific problem or a solution to a specific problem.

TERMS

• Design - to think up and plan out

• Device - a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose

• Materials - the matter of which a thing is or can be made

• Problem - something that is unwelcome or harmful

• Solution - a means of solving a problem

STANDARDS

K-PS3-2 / 1-PS4-4 / 1-LS1-1 / 2-ESS2-1

Observable Features of Student Performance