Lesson 30 of 84 · Engineering and Design

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Designing a Solution (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #30

Engineering and Design.

🎯 Your mission

Push the limits. See what changes.

⚡ The twist

Constraints make you more creative, not less.

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Mind = Blown

🛠️ The first computer bug was a literal moth stuck inside a machine in 1947.

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Make a hypothesis first

Before you test: how many tries until it works?

What You'll Learn

Engineers design solutions to problems. They make things that help people every day!

Key Words

predict
tool
material

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

Every bridge, building, and gadget you've ever used started with this.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find something that's broken at home and try to figure out *why* it broke.

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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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Share this experiment

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

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