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In Taking the Plunge: Designing Submersibles, students learn how engineers use their understanding of science and math to solve problems in the ocean environment. The unit begins with the storybook Despina Makes a Splash, in which a girl named Despina living in Greece explores the field of Ocean Engineering as she designs a submersible to retrieve her cousin’s goggles. Over the course of the unit, students use a model tool for mapping the ocean floor. They plan and carry out an investigation to learn how to predict whether an object will sink or float, based on its mass and volume. Like Despina, students then follow the steps of the Engineering Design Process to imagine, plan, create, and improve their own submersibles.