This winter, the five older students in grades 7-8 participated in a unit on engineering a better paper airplane. First they had to choose three different types of planes to make (they couldn’t all be based on the basic dart) and then decide what constraints they would put on making the planes. As they searched the web for the “best” paper airplanes, they were also trying to figure out what they would test. All of the students ended up deciding to measure how far their plane flew. After testing their original planes, they then had to choose one and do three iterations on that type of plane that would make the plane even better. As a final part of their class, they had to compare their planes to their peers and do a presentation via Google slides showing and supporting their decisions.