Also responsible for clean up. Groups design on paper first. Teacher checks design. Then groups make their frame and test out their variable. Usually student groups choose different variables, this makes the opportunity to question whether two positive variables together could make even a stronger frame.
Students consider the Design Questions as an assessment.
This design toolkit may be used as an introduction to other areas of science that require an understanding of structure and function. Different types of architecture- art and architecture may be introduced by the use of the pictures, and perhaps other pictures to look further at why certain monuments or architectures are build as they are. Students may bring in pictures of buildings and make statements about their structure and function. The teacher may give a brief history of architecture and introduce such words as- gothic, ionic, doric, corinthian, etc.