Backpack Design Challenge

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Students will design a new backpack that they can use.

Time: 90 minutes; implemented in one session

Materials:

  • Pre-Activity Checklist

  • Tell My Story Form

  • Computer with projector, speakers, and Internet access

  • PowerPoint: Backpack Design Challenge

  • Video: Designing Backpacks (The Futures Channel)

  • Student Handout: Backpack Design Challenge, 1 per student

  • Plain paper, 4 pages per team

  • Poster board (22 in. x 28 in. or 56 cm x 71 cm) 

  • Markers/crayons, 1 package of markers or crayons containing multiple colors per team 

  • Pen/pencil, 1 per student 

Cost: US$10 in materials costs when completing this activity with 20 students organized into teams of three to four students.