Critical Thinking: Analyzing the properties and potential uses of object parts.
Adaptive Perseverance: Overcoming challenges in disassembling and reassembling objects.
Communication: Explaining the transformation process and the new object's functionality.
Responsibility and Global Citizenship: Understanding the environmental significance of repurposing materials.
What happens when we disassemble objects and use the parts to make something new?
How do the properties of the original pieces influence what the new object can be?
Can we predict the new uses of disassembled parts?
Modeling
Constructing Explanations
NGSS 2-PS1-3: Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.
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