Review the Introduction Story: Design a New Home in the post below. Your challenge is to design a new home for one of the animals in the story or for an animal you discovered on an outdoor walk in your neighborhood. You will follow the design process as you work with your family to solve the problem.

Ask

Gather information that will help you define the problem.

• Will this be working home for outdoor use, or a craft model kept indoors?

What creature will you design and build a home for?

• What animals live around your neighborhood that you could help? Perhaps toads, bees, birds or toads and bees again!

Criteria:

• Strong so it doesn’t fall apart

• Safe so it doesn’t hurt the animal and/or offers protection

• Other criteria you decide based on chosen animals, such as: water resistant/proof, soft, warm, or cool

Explore

What materials are available for you to use?

• Craft materials: cardboard, tape, paper lunch bags, string, glue, pom poms, foil, cotton balls, dowel rods, pipe cleaners, toothpicks, feathers, modeling clay, yarn, craft sticks, others

• Natural materials: sticks, rocks, leaves, pine straw, dirt

• Construction materials: With adult help you could use wood, hardware, etc…

Sketch ideas for your home design using pencils or crayons.

Model

Create your design!

Evaluate.

How did your product perform? What were the strengths and weaknesses of your design?

Explain.

EMAIL PHOTOS OF YOUR HOME IN ACTION TO MR. GIUNTA.