Design Communication Messages Like Charlotte’s Web
Similar to how Charlotte uses her web to communicate, students create webs for short messages. They learn how spiders create their webs, and about the different types of webs they make. With this knowledge, students design and create their own webs and incorporate messages.
Students learn how webs are createdCopyright Wikimedia Commons http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Spider_web_with_dew.JPG
Design is a key part of engineering. It involves first understanding the problem or challenge, and clarifying what we want to accomplish, then imagining different ideas, then researching methods and making plans, then documenting the best plan with sketches and diagrams, then creating a prototype and refining it until it satisfies the goal.
- How spider webs are made and what they are used for.
- How to sketch a design before constructing a product prototype.
- Construction and design techniques in their own spider webs.