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You might think of the engineering design process as primarily about designing, iterating, and testing multiple prototypes of some device or machine.

While they might seem like a waste of paper or a distraction in your classroom, paper airplanes are an excellent way to teach your students about the engineering design process. You probably remember making paper airplanes as a kid, and some of your students might be obsessed with making them now. This lesson focuses on these aspects of NGSS Three Dimensional Learning: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. This lesson helps students prepare for these Next Generation Science Standards Performance Expectations:

Explain why it is important to specify criteria and constraints for an engineering problem.

Identify the criteria and constraints in a given engineering design problem.

Before they start making planes, they need to define the criteria and constraints of this engineering problem.

In this fun lesson, you will be the "customer" ordering a paper airplane, and your student teams will be engineering companies that will manufacture planes. Are paper airplanes a nuisance in your classroom? They don't have to be! Those distractions can be a constructive learning opportunity: use them to teach your students about the engineering design process.