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Designing Parachutes: Setting a Context for Engineering | Engineering is Elementary

In this professional development video from Engineering is Elementary, teacher Jean Facchiano reads a story about an engineering problem and engages her fourth grade students in discussing how the story characters apply the engineering design process.The lesson shows students working on Disciplinary Core Ideas in Engineering Design from the NGSS.

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As the teacher reads and discusses the story with her students and asks them to go back to determine where in the story the design process steps take place, she helps students grow familiar with each of those parts and how they are interconnected. Students identify when the characters engaged in Engineering Practices: Defining Problems; Planning and Carrying Out Investigations; and Designing Solutions. These activities also help students better understand Disciplinary Core Idea ETS1.A, Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems.