

Guide children to the conclusion that they could collect some LEGO bricks and build a small tower to see how many rows of bricks they will need.ĭid they take into account the need to build a small tray for the paper clips and eraser? What would happen if the tray was too tall for these items? Children should come to the conclusion that the sections of the desk tidy need to be large enough to provide easy access. How do they think the build went? Are there any changes they could make to improve their designs? Is any given design tall enough to hold the amount of pencils and pens it needs to? How can they test this? Ask the students to go back to the software and make any necessary changes to their design before creating a build guide for it. Choose one of their sketches and use the LEGO Digital Designer to model this design before producing a printout and evaluating it as a class.

In this activity the challenge is simple: use the LEGO Digital Designer – a free, downloadable program available here – to design a desk tidy for the table that can hold pencils, pens, erasers and paper clips.
