Invite students to explore how seasons impact daily life as they take on the challenge of designing a hat they can wear all year long. In this engineering lesson, learners consider how to protect their eyes and face from bright sun as well as keep rain and snow off their heads using thoughtful features and material choices. Students sketch, build, and test their own all-season hat prototypes, adjusting brims, coverage, and structure to improve performance. The interactive testing makes real-world problem-solving fun and meaningful, and students love creating a useful item designed just for themselves.
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Introduce the challenge
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Design & build
3
Test it
4
Improve & share
At a glance
Grades
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
Subject
Engineering
Theme
Weather and Natural Disasters
Formats
Digital Lesson, Mini Lesson
Standards
NGSS-aligned, cross-curricular STEAM
File type
PDF (print or project)
Student work examples
Student workReal student work from Hat for All the SeasonsWhat’s includedA quick tour of the full Digital LessonWhat’s includedShows the full Digital Lesson. The Mini Lesson has the same core pages, shorter.
