Lesson 5 of 84 · Engineering and Design
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🛠️ Engineer ShopHow to Compare Things
Engineering and Design.
🎯 Your mission
Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.
⚡ The twist
Constraints make you more creative, not less.
Mind = Blown
🛠️ The first computer bug was a literal moth stuck inside a machine in 1947.
Make a hypothesis first
Before you test: how many tries until it works?
What You'll Learn
Comparing means looking at two or more things and finding what is the same and what is different.
Key Words
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Steps
Talk about what you already know about Engineering and Design.
Design a container that keeps an ice cube from melting for as long as possible.
Compare what happened to what you predicted.
Tell the class one thing you learned today.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What should you do if your experiment doesn't work?
Where you see this in real life
Every bridge, building, and gadget you've ever used started with this.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find something that's broken at home and try to figure out *why* it broke.
For the dinner table
“What's something around the house you'd redesign — and how?”
Next Smart Experiment
We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.
Share this experiment
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