• Classroom community collaboration

• Problem/solution

• Viewpoints/perspectives

• How do people in a community collaborate?

• How can we better understand others while solving problems?

• How can we solve problems verbally and physically?

Fairy tales: 

• Goldilocks and the Three Bears

• The Three Little Pigs

• The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Other engineering stories:

• Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty

• Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty

• Awesome Dawnson by Chris Gall

• Have Fun Molly Lou Lemon by Patty Lovell

• Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Noisy Problem by Chris Monroe

• 11 Experiments that Failed by Jenny Offill

• The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires

• Mechanimals by Chris Tougas

• If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen

• If I Built a House by Chris Van Dusen

Art: Authentic, collaborative art projects (partners, small group, whole group)

Drama: Fairy tale literacy connections (retell stories through story paths, reader’s theatre, story compare/contrast, step insides for perspective)

Music: Fairy tale literature, instruments collaboration, Goldilocks 

Movement: Collaborative dance using circles, lines, partners, and mirroring

By the end of this unit students will be able to...

• Identify problems

• Brainstorm various solutions to a problem

• Work collaboratively with peers in order to solve a classroom problem

• Students will present about their 3 collaborative engineering challenges

• Students will engineer a solution to a classroom problem and present