This activity, "Jack's Challenges," guides users through the engineering design process, encouraging them to design, test, and refine their ideas. It presents various design challenges, such as creating a treehouse, a pollution picker-upper, a robot, an explorer's suitcase, or a vehicle for the future. The activity emphasizes research, imagination, planning, collaboration, and continuous improvement of designs based on feedback.

Create your trading cards! Pack them with key info and cool visuals; they're perfect for quick brain breaks or post-assessment fun.

Talk through the step-by-step process to solve these K-2-friendly situations. Get students started with computational thinking with situations relevant to them. These are a good start, but feel free to think of more that are similar but include their favorite shows, video games, activities, and pastimes.

Students are curious kiddos. Teach them how to research with the GAS strategy. G - Goals, what do you want to learn? A - Answers, find the answers. S - Share, share what you learned. Knowing what they are supposed to look for helps them stay focused when searching for the answers. Then they can share what they learned by summarizing it real quick on the last page with a video, voice comment, or voice typing.