Lesson #2: Engineering Design Process
by Kathy Hartley
This is the second lesson in a series of lesson designed to introduce the engineering design process to middle schoolers. In this lesson students will use the engineering design process reverse engineer a coffee cup racer. They will test their design against the original. The main take away for the student is that testing the design is an important part of the process.
Lesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZgOPSvdPxvevWa5s-_0T9tImDzZ45I2C/edit?u…Related Content
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