While investigating the needs of animals in science, our third grade students were presented with a task…think like a bird and create shelter for yourself and your young. In an on-going effort to create problem-solvers, students were given little more instruction than that. We walked through the woods and picked materials that may be useful and then headed into the makerspace to design, build, problem-solve, redesign and rebuild. Students soon realized that building a strong nest is no easy task. Next week we’ll put our nests to the test, where we will put our designs into trees and see how many <em>eggs</em> they may hold…