During Mrs. Muder’s class, students were grouped to learn the process of engineering design through concepts of Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Test, Improve, and Share. Students spent the first half of the class planning and designing a raft with the requirement that it had to float on water.

 

After rafts were created, students were given the challenge to see how many marbles the rafts could withstand before sinking. Once the challenge was finished, a group was named the winner, and that group discussed their plan and other details that led to them engineering a successful raft.