Students in grades 3-5 are working with the storybook problem presented in Oliver Jeffers's hilarious picture book Stuck to learn more about building with a user in mind and engineering for the greater good!
If you're unfamiliar with the story, listen to Jeffers himself read it here:
We then used the Innovator's Compass to determine who is involved in this problem, what are our observations, and what are our principles, by which we mean, what is really important while we are building? Learning to think about the why when engineering is a skill we have been focusing on all year, and the students are really starting to get the significance. We practiced together first discussing the Xbox Adaptive controller, then moved into working with small groups to develop Innovator's Compasses of their own to solve the element of the story of their choice.
Now the students are turning their ideations into reality! Check out this Youtube video of 3rd grade working hard to help get these characters un-stuck!
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