amccabescience

In this activity, students applied their understanding of heat transfer and the engineering design process to create a home that would keep a “penguin” (ice cube) from melting. During the design phase, students selected materials such as foam, cotton, bubble wrap, and aluminum foil within a $100 budget to build an insulated dwelling. They sketched their design, explained their material choices, and predicted how well their structure would work. In the testing phase, students measured how lon