Engineering Design and Scientific Method

The seven steps of the engineering design process in order are:

• plan, ask, research, test, imagine, improve, create

• research, plan, create, ask, test, imagine, improve

• create, ask, imagine, test, research, improve, plan

• ask, research, imagine, plan, create, test, improve

What is the main goal of the design process?

• to write reports
• to make things
• to make charts and graphs
• to find solutions to problems

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

Dishwashers and dryers are new technologies. Which is a way that these appliances changed people's lives?

• they make dishes and clothes last longer
• they never break, so people do not have to worry about them
• they make chores take longer because these appliances must be watched
• they make these chores take less time, which lets people do other things

What is the first step in the engineering design process?

• Ask the question/ define the problem

• build a prototype
• identify criteria
• share results

Roger plans and makes a bird feeder. He puts the bird feeder in his yard, but the birds cannot get food because of the small hole in the feed. Which should Roger do NEXT?

• communicate
• find a problem
• plan and build
• redesign the feeder

Should experiments be repeated over and over to see if the results are the same each time?

• yes
• no

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

A possible explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested. 

• data
• theory
• hypothesis
• fact

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

What step does every scientific experiment begin with?

• hypothesis
• question/problem
• procedures
• conclusion

The summary at the end of an experiment that explains the results. 

• conclusion
• procedures
• materials
• responding variable

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2