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In the Hopper Race lesson, student pairs design multiple prototypes to find the most effective way to move a robot without using wheels. In this lesson, your students will:

• Define a problem with constraints and criteria

• Optimize their solutions through systematic testing

• Use and seek failure as a tool to improve their solutions

• Pose meaningful and answerable scientific questions

• Use data and evidence to support their conclusions

Standards Mapping

• Next Generation Science Standards
  • MS-ETS1-1. Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
• Common Core
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1.C Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.EE.B.7 Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations of the form x + p = q and px = q for cases in which p, q and x are all nonnegative rational numbers.”]