Purposeful Packaging
Lesson: 90 minutes; Unit: 150 minutes
Students will play the role of packaging engineers, exploring how to protect shipped items in innovative ways.
Resources
Lesson: 90 minutes; Unit: 150 minutes
Objectives:
- Design a more sustainable way of packing items for shipment.
- Collect consumer feedback using surveys.
- Calculate averages, analyze survey data and evaluate the effectiveness of their design.
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
- Engineering Design
- Science and Engineering Practices
- Cross Cutting Concepts
- Disciplinary Core Ideas
- Mathematics: Statistics and Probability
