Lesson 10 of 84 · Engineering and Design
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🛠️ Engineer ShopAnalyzing Data with Graphs
Engineering and Design.
🎯 Your mission
Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.
⚡ The twist
The first design always fails. That's the point.
Mind = Blown
🛠️ The first computer bug was a literal moth stuck inside a machine in 1947.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: what's the weakest part of this build?
What You'll Learn
Data analysis involves organizing, displaying, and interpreting information to find patterns. Scientists use tables, graphs, and statistics to make sense of experimental results.
Key Words
- evidence
- model
- prototype
Steps
Study the diagram and label the parts you recognize.
Build a water filter using a bottle, sand, gravel, cotton, and charcoal. Pour muddy water through and measure how clear the output is.
Use your senses (except taste) to describe what you notice.
Write a summary of your findings in 3-5 sentences.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3How does light travel?
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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