Students will recommend which drone pilots should be hired to inspect city roads for damage following a hurricane. They will determine the value of combinations of one, five, and ten dollar bills and interpret data represented by tally marks in a table.

This is an open-ended engineering design lesson where students will develop a model to help them solve a problem. There are no “right” answers as the lesson is focused on the process of developing a solution and the skills and reasoning behind the process. Students should be given the freedom to interpret the problem and parameters in unique ways to pursue their own lines of thinking in producing a solution.