Guide Students' Thinking

Use these questions to help your students build a model that meets competition requirements.

1. What scale would work best for your model?
2. What features would best represent your city (buildings, zones, landforms, interconnectivity, and infrastructure such as transportation, energy, waste disposal, pollution control)?
3. How can you show that your city is well planned, accessible, and considers the environment?
4. What makes your city innovative and futuristic? How can you show your futuristic ideas are based on science and engineering?
5. How will you include your solution to the Fuel Your Future essay in your model?
6. What recycled materials could you use? How could you use them in creative ways?
7. What will your moving part(s) do? How does it represent an important element of your city design?
8. How will you power your moving part(s)? Can you easily repeat the movement?
9. As you build your model, how could you use the design process to help you work through problems (define the problem to solve; brainstorm various solutions; select a solution; design, build, test and redesign solution; share results)?

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