Yesterday we participated in another inquiry based engineering lesson.  After studying the materials that we could use to build our inventions, we designed on paper our own container for carrying apples. The container had to have handles and be big enough and strong enough to carry at least three apples from one side of the room to the other.  After drawing our designs, we were placed in groups of 3 or 4 and told to choose the best design and then create it.  It was amazing because everyone was engaged and participating!  Most of the designs were a success but some were not.  We learned that engineers do not give up but keep working to better their designs.  

I took a lot of video of the kiddos testing their inventions.  I will try and upload them to the blog.