Styling Sun Safety

Ages: 5-8
Standards alignment: 1-LS1-1, K-2-ETS1-1, K-2-ETS1-2
Teaching time: 1 hour 

In this activity students will design and engineer solutions to protect people from harmful UV rays, based on strategies found in nature. Students will learn about how animals use a variety of adaptations to protect themselves from getting too much Sun. Students will make connections between those adaptations and the strategies people use to keep themselves safe from the Sun. Using design-thinking strategies, students will create an outfit for a Sun safety fashion show, connecting to the ideas they learned from Sun safety techniques used by animals and people.