Lesson 80 of 84 · Engineering and Design

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What Engineers Do (Part 4)

🧪Lab Brief #80

Engineering and Design.

🎯 Your mission

Play with the model. Break it. Understand it.

⚡ 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

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

Key Words

try again
observe

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Talk about what you already know about Engineering and Design.

Step 2 — Do

Design a container that keeps an ice cube from melting for as long as possible.

Step 3 — Observe

Compare what happened to what you predicted.

Step 4 — Record

Tell the class one thing you learned today.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Why do scientists compare things?

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

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