1. Welcome From Robots to Hurricanes: Using the Engineering Design Process in Elementary School
Joann Archer-stem lab teacher, stenstrom elementary Lynda Roche-Kindergarten teacher, Stenstrom Elementary

2. Have you used the Engineering Design Process in your classroom?
Challenges?
Successes?

3. Goals of todays session
The Engineering Design Process and classroom constraints
Time
Easily modified
Standards
Kids love to build
KISS
Cost
Complete an Engineering Design Process lesson as it would be
organized and implemented for second grade (with shorter time limits)
Please work nicely with your group
Suggestions on how to modify this lesson for other grade levels
Other lesson ideas

4. Hurricane Stenstrom Let’s begin! Two part lesson
Part 1: ask and imagine 1 hour
Part 2: plan, create, improve 1 hour
Let’s begin!

5. What observations about weather can you make from the pictures below?

6. Engineering Problem
Create a building that can keep a bean bag on its “roof” during a “STEM Lab hurricane”

7. Ask
Can you restate the engineering problem in the form of a question? What questions do you have?

8. What is a hurricane? Where do hurricanes form?
Where do hurricanes form?
What time of year do hurricanes form?
Which hurricane was the biggest?

9. How are we going to make a hurricane in the STEM Lab?
Wind
Flooding
Rain

10. What materials can I use?
6 Straws
6 index cards
6 popsicle sticks
Tape
Plastic floor

11. Can you show me an example?

12. Other questions you may have
Are we working as a team or by ourselves? As a team with a partner
Can we tape our building to the table? No but will have a “foundation” that you can take your building to that is able to move to the STEM lab hurricane area.
How high do we have to make our building? As high as you can, but start small and add to it.
Where does the bean bag go? At the top
How does the bean bag stay on the building? It has to remain on the top by itself.
Can we change our building after we create it? Yes it is called the IMPROVE part of the Engineering Design Process

13. Imagine
Let’s practice! Using 4 straws and 6 inches of tape, make a structure that can hold a bean bag You have 15 minutes

14. Hurricane Stenstrom
Part 2: Plan, Create, and Improve

15. Today’s Timeline
10 Review Ask and Imagine 10 Minutes to Plan 20 Minutes to Create 10 Minutes to Test 5 minutes to list Improvement ideas and wrap up

16. Engineering Problem
Create a building that can keep a bean bag on its “roof” during a “STEM Lab hurricane”

17. Materials
6 Straws 6 Popsicles 6 index cards Tape 1 bean bag 1 floor

18. Hurricane Proof Score TOTAL 50 Hold the Bean Bag 10
Still standing after wind 10
Still standing after rain 10
Still standing after flood 10
12 inches high
TOTAL

19. Plan
Draw and label the building you want to create. Your plan should have: A title A drawing of your building Materials labeled You have 10 minutes

20. Create
Time to create your building! You have 20 minutes until the hurricane reaches the STEM Lab! When time is up, you will need to bring your building to the test area.

21. Test
My score was __________________.

22. Improve
I can improve my building by ______________________________.

23. Modifications For Other Grade Levels
Ask
K,1 – Show requirements with a model
4, 5 - Jigsaw sharing the requirements
Imagine
K,1 – Don’t use bean bag, practice taping
4,5 – Verbally brainstorm, more materials, give a height requirement
Plan
K,1 – No labels, use a white board
4, 5 – Give a rubric for having title, drawing, materials and don’t time them. They have to get a certain “grade” before gathering supplies
Create
K,1 – No points, use three little pigs instead of hurricane
3 – Unlimited supplies or less supplies
4, 5 – Students have a budget, larger height requirement, no index cards, adjust materials

24. Other Engineering Design Project Ideas
EV3 Robots
Thanksgiving parade
Water cycle
Learning to program in the practice in the imagine step
Wedo LEGO kits
Create an insect that can sense a predator
Create a turkey that can get it’s food
Engineering a plant
Planning an exercise machine to use in space
Creating a module for the International Space Station

25. Contact Information