STEM Midterm 2022

What does the word Prototype mean?

• Branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures. 
• The trial of the quality of something. 
• Working model that a user can interact with a test a concept. 
• To work effectively with a team to accomplish a goal.

What do you do after you finish any activity?

• Clean up quickly and quietly

• Start running around the classroom

• Begin talking off-topic with your friends

• Nothing, it does not apply to me

A test to find out about something

• myth

• experiment

• variables

• confirmed

A sentence asked to gain information

• demonstration

• question

• scientific method

• experiment

The act of watching carefully

• fact

• hypothesis

• observation

• opinion

A series of steps that engineers follow to come up with a solution to a problem. Many times the solution involves designing a product (like a machine or computer code) that meets certain criteria and/or accomplishes a certain task.

• Engineering Design Process

• Brainstorming Process

• Design and Ideas Process

• Engineering and Building Process

To say that (something) will or might happen in the future. To tell in advance.

• predict

• mortar

• setting

• plot

To consider how to best solve the problem

• effect

• cause

• design

• plan

What does S.T.E.M. stand for?

• Scenery, Time, Entertainment, Money

• Seals, Tigers, Elephants, Monkeys

• Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

• Scientists, Technician, Education, Mathematician

What are the steps of the Engineering Design Process?

• Ask, Plan, Improve

• Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Improve

• Plan, create, done

• Ask, plan, improve