SAVE FRED!!!
Fred is a worm whose boat has capsized with his life jacket under the boat. Students needed to devise a plan to save Fred using only paper clips. NO HANDS!!! Students documented what worked and what did not work. Then they had to decide if this was an engineering project or scientific inquiry project and why.
This made for a lot of fun and some very inventive ideas. In the end, almost all groups were successful.
Fred is a worm whose boat has capsized with his life jacket under the boat. Students needed to devise a plan to save Fred using only paper clips. NO HANDS!!! Students documented what worked and what did not work. Then they had to decide if this was an engineering project or scientific inquiry project and why.
This made for a lot of fun and some very inventive ideas. In the end, almost all groups were successful.