Students will launch the plant adaptation engineering challenge by observing stressed plant systems, collecting first-round evidence with lab tools, and using those observations to define an authentic problem with measurable criteria and constraints. They will begin building shared biology understanding about plant structures and transport, then produce an initial evidence-based adaptation concept that can be researched, tested, and revised in later phases.

Students will investigate plant stress scenarios, analyze how plant structures and transport systems respond to changing conditions, and co-create an evidence-based design brief with measurable criteria, constraints, and required biology content for their adaptation model.

Students will compare three plant adaptation concepts against weighted criteria, justify a design choice with evidence from prior investigations, build a rapid prototype, and run a criteria-based test that produces usable quantitative and qualitative data for revision.

Students will use prototype test evidence to revise a plant adaptation model, document improvements and trade-offs with the same measures used earlier, and prepare a clear poster-and-pitch package for the museum-style showcase.

Students will present their final plant adaptation models, posters, annotated drawings, and brief conference scripts to an authentic audience, defend design choices with lab evidence and trade-off reasoning, and capture feedback from visitors to close the engineering design cycle.