Lesson 53 of 84 · Engineering and Design
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🛠️ Engineer ShopLight and Shadows (Part 3)
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
Mirrors reflect light. When light hits a mirror, it bounces off like a ball bouncing off a wall.
Key Words
- design
- build
- plan
Steps
Read the introduction. What is this lesson about?
Build a tower from spaghetti and marshmallows. Measure how tall you can make it.
Look for something that changed. What is it?
Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3Why do we record what happens in experiments?
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
Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.
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