Catering for the range of student abilities involved pedagogical problem solving, as some students required further teacher support during the constructing stage. The classroom teacher suggested that when there was “disappointment with a design that didn’t turn out as planned, I tried to encourage the student to see that failure is a step in learning and shows that they are trying; also an opportunity to learn from and redesign with the failure in mind”. Although the focus was on problem solving as a pedagogical practice, the students also noted that problem solving was required at different points during the activities that may require teacher intervention. For example, when making the medical kit the “pipe cleaner not strong enough [so I] put straw over it”, “How to put straws on corners - bent pipe cleaners” and “Keeping the ‘skeleton’ of shape in its correct form – I held it”.