After two weeks of collaboration, brainstorming, research, planning, designing, getting feedback, thinking, and rethinking, the 8th graders began construction of their building prototypes last week.  Students quickly learned that moving from imagining to doing can be tricky.  They are seeing that even with a well-designed written plan it can be challenging to create the actual prototype.  Necessary steps are missed, materials don’t work well or ideas fail.  And, through it all students are persevering and pushing themselves to come up with solutions to improve their design.    The classroom is a flurry of students supporting one another, respectively disagreeing, challenging one another, thinking critically and problem solving.  Stay tuned for the final designs.