Lesson 11 of 84 · Engineering and Design

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Testing Our Ideas

🧪Lab Brief #11

Engineering and Design.

🎯 Your mission

Run the experiment. Find out what really happens.

⚡ The twist

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

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Mind = Blown

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

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Make a hypothesis first

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

What You'll Learn

When scientists test ideas, they change one thing at a time and keep everything else the same.

Key Words

tool
material

Materials Needed

string
cups
aluminum foil
ruler
markers
popsicle sticks

Safety First

Keep small objects away from young children.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about Engineering and Design with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2 — Do

Build the strongest bridge you can using only paper and tape. Test it by placing coins on top.

Step 3 — Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4 — Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

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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