Yesterday we thought back to the story of Ember and came up with a list of problems they had in the city, there were many. We had to narrow the list down to what we thought we could engineer in the classroom, with limited materials as could be found in the city of Ember. We arrived to three problems:
* Lack of a mail system- they rely on messengers to run the messages around town
* the yarn in Granny's shop was out of control
* They didn't have a good way to organize or access materials in the storage rooms.
The children voted on their top choice of what problem they would like to solve. I then looked then broke them into groups based on their choices.
Today we were able to get into our groups and begin to brainstorm a device we could build to solve the problem. The students will be scored on a rubric as shown below so they frequently referenced that as they worked through the design process. Tomorrow I will give them a preview of some of the items that will be available to "purchase" to create their design. This will allow them/force them to go back and make revisions to their plans over the next few days.
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