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Design a Boot Engineering Design Challenge | 1st Grade STEM Discoveries

This unit is part of our new 1st Grade STEM Discoveries series - get ready to discover, explore, and innovate!

STEM Discoveries Storyline (Adaptable for Grades 1 - 2): Terra (a robot) arrives in the present because her futuristic world is missing some important things - creativity, curiosity, and the spirit of exploration! Her sensors picked up signs of innovation coming from your classroom. Terra’s mission: Learn from the students and discover STEM knowledge and inventions to bring back to the future!

A Mission to Design a Slippery Surface Boot: In this unit, students will learn about friction and how different materials create high or low friction. They will also learn about boots and how soles with tread give grippiness to boots. Students will read A Silly Snow Day (watch on YouTube or the physical book) to recognize that problems can have multiple solutions. Students will then design, build and test their own slippery surface boot!