Lesson 10 of 10 · Engineering and Design

Lesson⭐ 30 XP🛠️ Engineer Shop

Starting an Investigation

🧪Lab Brief #10

Engineering and Design.

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

Constraints make you more creative, not less.

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Mind = Blown

🛠️ The first computer bug was a literal moth stuck inside a machine in 1947.

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Make a hypothesis first

Before you test: how many tries until it works?

What You'll Learn

An investigation is a careful study to answer a question. What would you like to investigate?

Key Words

Tap a word to see its definition.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

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

Step 2 — Observe

Draw a picture of what you observe.

Step 3 — Record

Share your results with a partner.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What does a scientist do?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

Your phone, your bike, your shoes — all designed with this idea.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Build something — anything — out of stuff in your recycling bin.

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For the dinner table

“What's something around the house you'd redesign — and how?”

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Next Smart Experiment

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

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Share this experiment

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

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