Using Your Senses

Lab Brief #6

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

The first design always fails. That's the point.

What you'll learn

Making observations means using your senses to gather information about something.

Key words

Make a hypothesis first

Guess: what's the weakest part of this build?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 3 · Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2 of 3 · Observe

Compare what happened to what you predicted.

Step 3 of 3 · Record

Tell the class one thing you learned today.

Question 1 of 3

What tool do you use to measure how heavy something is?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

What does 'observe' mean?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

What does 'predict' mean?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🚀 The Saturn V rocket burned 20 tons of fuel per second at liftoff.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

🎯

We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this in real life: Your phone, your bike, your shoes — all designed with this idea.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Build something — anything — out of stuff in your recycling bin.

👨‍👩‍👧 For the dinner table: “What's something around the house you'd redesign — and how?”

Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.

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