Lesson 52 of 84 · Engineering and Design
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🛠️ Engineer ShopUsing Your Senses (Part 3)
Engineering and Design.
🎯 Your mission
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
⚡ The twist
The first design always fails. That's the point.
Mind = Blown
🚀 The Saturn V rocket burned 20 tons of fuel per second at liftoff.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: what's the weakest part of this build?
What You'll Learn
Making observations means using your senses to gather information about something.
Key Words
Tap a word to see its definition.
Steps
Look at the new words. Can you say each one?
Design a boat from foil that can hold the most pennies without sinking.
Use your senses to describe what you notice.
Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is the first step when solving a problem?
Where you see this in real life
Your phone, your bike, your shoes — all designed with this idea.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life 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?”
Next Smart Experiment
We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.
Share this experiment
Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.
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