No one may remove anything, as some students will have the inclination to move the boxes without problem solving with the group. Students are guided to decide to conduct interviews to collect ideas about what others think they should do with the boxes. Students practice interview techniques. Teacher takes pictures of the sequence of activities to turn into a slide show to present at the end of the unit. Teacher does cardboard strength experiments by stacking rocks on a bridge of cardboard of different fluting designs to detirmine the strongest type of cardboard.
Students observe, predict and draw conclusions about cardboard strength.
Students interview staff and keypals to gather other ideas for use of boxes. Students are guided to internet to find information about measurement. Students do measuring lesson using real objects, rulers and ruler printed from the internet. Students discuss differences between measuring tools. Students generate a list or draw pictures on tagboard to chart the ideas gathered in interviews.