Engineering Practice

Some scientists want to design a system of instruments that will evaluate ocean currents, temperatures, and winds in order to predict weather patterns. 
What should they do before they produce the first complete working version of the system?

• Improve the design of the system
• Evaluate the results of the system
• Build a prototype of the system

Your group plans to build a model plant. When should you decide upon the criteria you will use to test your technological design?

• After the model is built
• after the model is tested
•  Before the model is built

What is the First Step of the Engineering Design Process

• Testing Solutions

• Designing Solutions

• Identifying the Problem

• Planning Solutions

When generating a solution, a designer creates either a model or a ________________.

• drawing
• report
• design brief
• prototype

Which SEP does this image fit into?

• Asking questions and defining problems

• Developing and using models

• Analyzing and interpreting data

• Engaging in argument from evidence

Using Math and Computational Thinking includes

• Seeing evidence and understanding it
• Identifying questions to be investigated
• Deciding what questions have not been answered
• Using Math to analyze my data

Develop and use models includes

• Using models to explain and predict behaviors of a system
• Formulating evidence based on solid data
  
• Using mathematics to analyze my data
• Identifying variables and controls

When I list the reasons why my bridge holds the most weight, based on my data table, I am...

• Engaging in an argument from evidence
• Asking questions and defining problems
• Planning and carrying out investigations
  
• Developing and Using Models

Engineers are people who design and build things to solve _____

• riddles
• puzzles
• crosswords
• problems

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When they're trying to solve a problem, engineers follow a series of _____

• steps
• problems
• solutions
• tests

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5