Escape the Lava
Grades 4-8 Four 50-minute sessions Engineering English Language Arts
Escape the Lava
Design a device to rescue researchers from a lava flow.
Resources
Objectives:
- Design and build devices to solve an engineering design challenge.
- Assess their designs for failure points and areas for iterative improvements.
- Analyze presentations to identify key components of good presentations.
- Create presentations to explain the strengths and weaknesses of their designs in meeting criteria and constraints of a design challenge.
- Demonstrate their abilities to integrate the lexicon of engineering in their presentations.
- Create engineering diagrams.
The Tech Challenge
This resource was developed to prepare students for the 2018 Tech Challenge. Each year The Tech Challenge invites teams of students in Grades 4-12 to use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem.
Learn about this year's Tech Challenge.
The Tech Academies
This activity was developed in partnership with educators from The Tech Academies Fellowship program. Tech Academy Fellows learn to be leaders of STEM education while designing and testing resources to be shared with other educators.
Standards alignment
- Science and Engineering Practices
- Cross Cutting Concepts
- Disciplinary Core Ideas
- English Language Arts: Speaking and Listening
