Summary
Murray works with kids on building a boat that floats and holds weight — build it, test it, see what goes wrong, change it. A clean model of the design-and-test loop in under four minutes.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Murray and the kids try building a boat that floats and holds weight.
- What was the goal? How would you know if it worked?
- What did they build first?
- What went wrong, and what did they change?
- What would you try next?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: design, build, test, change.
Try it: Sketch your own design, then say the one thing you would test first.