STEM Concepts

● Encourage students to conduct failure analysis to understand why a prototype did not meet requirements and document fndings in their engineering notebooks.

Redesign the Prototype

Iterative Improvement:

1. Refection and Feedback Sessions:

● Hold refection sessions where students review their prototype's performance, discuss what worked and what didn’t, and plan improvements. ● Conduct workshops focused on iterative design, emphasizing the importance of refning and improving prototypes based on test results. ● Guide students to explore mathematical relationships and use them to optimize their designs, reinforcing the connection between math and engineering.

2. Iterative Design Workshops:

3. Mathematical Relationships:

Extension

● Integrate real-world projects that require students to address practical problems with multiple constraints, such as designing sustainable housing or developing assistive devices. ● Promote collaborative projects where students work in teams, leveraging diverse skills and perspectives to solve complex problems. ● Encourage regular critical refection where students assess their design choices, identify areas for improvement, and iterate on their solutions. ● Bring in guest speakers from the engineering feld to discuss real-world design challenges and solutions, and take students on feld trips to engineering frms or research labs. ● Develop soft skills such as creativity, resourcefulness, abstract thinking, and communication through activities like design challenges, presentations, and collaborative projects.

Resources/Suggested Lesson(s) ● The Engineering Design Process Taco Video ● Teach Engineering: Engineering Design Process Website