Instructional/Environmental Modifications
	The procedures used to accommodate the range of abilities in the classroom, including students with disabilities, limited English proficiency, or bilingual students:

Students come together in teams with a variety of backgrounds and abilities in mathematics, science, technology and language proficiency as well as physical abilities and problem solving skills. This diversity can be used as an advantage by instructors utilizing cooperative learning strategies, promoting positive interdependence while optimizing individual skills, focusing on group goals, stressing individual accountability, enforcing group interaction and social skill development.

Physical modifications of the classroom setting include providing open space in different locations in the classroom for students to form groups with just their chairs and not be distracted by another group to process ideas.

Students need space to accommodate production of full scale models. A drafting room with a sink is an appropriate space for this learning experience, where desks can be kept clean for drafting and work tables are available for cutting and laminating large sheets of cardboard.

Paper cutters can be used, but the majority of cutting work is done by hand with box cutters, metal straight edges and large cutting boards.

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