Your class is using engineering principles to improve the design of football helmets to prevent brain injury. Your teacher divides you into groups and gives you various supplies (such as tape, bubble wrap, and foam) to create, design, and build a new helmet. Which of these is a benefit of this type of project in STEM education? - Students become confident in working independently.
- Students participate and apply engineering principles.
- Students use household items to create new products.
- Students learn to follow steps provided by their teacher.